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South Africa. Medical and Occupational Safety records related to a former employee of Ucor, a private company that conducted top-secret research at the Valindaba nuclear facility outside Pretoria in the ’70s and ’80s must now be released.
The order to release the confidential information related to South Africa’s apartheid-era nuclear weapons programme comes in a landmark ruling by the High Court in Pretoria.
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This limited edition book by Christel Fouche titled “Discussing SHE&Q Issues” was compiled due to various requests from industry SHEQ professionals to assist them with day-to-day problems that they encounter.
Over the past two years the content was designed and developed and then published in various SHEQ-related magazines in South Africa. The whole idea is to keep SHEQ professionals informed about related SHEQ matters.
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South Africa. On Monday, an employee of pet food manufacturer Epol, a division of Rainbow Farms, died in Pretoria after he slipped and fell into a silo. The 27-year old man fell into the three-quarters full silo while he was working.
The Pretoria emergency services were called to assist and the silo had to be emptied during the five-hour-long rescue operation.
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South Africa. Power utility Eskom, who has earlier announced plans to operate wind turbines to boost electricity supplies, has come under fire for polluting the environment.
Experts say Eskom needs more green initiatives. Greenhouse gases are not the only pollution black mark against Eskom’s power stations. The stations also pump tons of mercury into the air, making South Africa one of the world’s worst offenders for pollution by the toxic heavy metal.
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Nigeria. Police have started to arrest scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tyre tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets.
New regulations have caused havoc around Africa’s most populous nation, with motorcyclists complaining helmets are too expensive and some passengers refusing to wear them fearing they will catch skin disease or be put under a black magic spell.
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South Africa. A series of small explosions at Sasol’s Germiston solvents plant has seen the temporary closure of the facility.
The blast happened after a chemical solvents tanker caught fire in the plant’s loading bay at about 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jacqui O’Sullivan, company spokeswoman said.t A fire started on the road tanker and then spread to the vehicle’s own fuel supply which exploded.
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South Africa. The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) confirmed this week that the number of workers that died in South African mines, fell in 2008.
The DME’s inspector of mines, Thabo Gazi said that the department was finalising its statistics, which it would release by the end of January.
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