Thabiso Morodi

• PhD: Philosophy
• Head of Department at Tshwane University of Technology

While pesticides application has caused improved agricultural yields, their use has raised concerns of potential harm to the health of humankind. This study focused to assess seasonal variability of health risk linked with pesticide residues to humans through shallow groundwater. To assess water quality, samples were collected from shallow groundwa...

Background The entire risk assessment process is fraught with methodological and technical uncertainties, exacerbated by the introduction in legislation of ambiguous technical terms such as adequately controlled and reasonably practicable. The combination of these factors renders the risk assessment process opaque regarding required employer action...

This study provided firsthand insights of company noise risk assessment practices, specifically identifying functional and technical areas requiring improvement to enhance current efforts directed towards the minimisation of NIHL within HCPs. The study highlighted that the current practices on recording noise risk assessment information remain inc...

The paper evaluates inter- and intra-company risk assessment methodologies and their potential adverse effect on noise control inaction.

The Occupational Health and Safety Act 1993 and its attending Regulations in South Africa, require employers to conduct cost analysis studies to inform decision-making related to exposure control for occupational health hazard such as noise. Cost analysis, as per South African National Standard/ISO 31000 risk assessment guideline, is an important i...

This paper explores the potential of Corporate Social Responsibility disclosures in providing alternative information on the extent of occupational health hazard impact on workers, by selected South African companies operating within the manufacturing and utilities sectors amidst an absent national occupational disease surveillance system. An onlin...

The health regulations within the South African Occupational Health and Safety Act enjoins employers to institute various health risk management initiatives, in the form of occupational health programmes which carry compliance costs for implementing companies, often unknown to both internal and external stakeholders. Consequently, this study sought...

Operations in general industry, including manufacturing, expose employees to a myriad of occupational health hazards. To prevent exposure, occupational health and safety regulations were enacted, with both employers and workers instituting various risk reduction measures. The analysis of available occupational disease and injury statistics (indicat...

This review paper examines the extent of employer, worker, and labour union concerns to occupational health hazard exposure, as a function of previously reported and investigated complaints. Consequently, an online literature search was conducted, encompassing publicly available reports resulting from investigations, regulatory inspection, and enfo...

Background, aim, and objectives The purpose of the review is to assess the cultural practices and its influence on food waste in South Africa. Furthermore, it explores the reasons for food waste by looking at different cultural practice of various ethnic groups in South Africa. The growing concern of the challenges of waste on human health and the...

This paper examines the issue of acid mine drainage in South Africa and environmental decision making processes that could be taken to mitigate the problem in the context of both conventional risk assessment and the precautionary principle. It is argued that conventional risk assessment protects the status quo and hence cannot be entirely relied up...

In South Africa, acid mine drainage (AMD) is a perennial issue that may have a serious impact on sustainability of ecosystems and the quality of water in the country. AMD has resulted in controversial debates in this country where the ownership of mines has traditionally been characterized by policies of the apartheid era that downplayed community...

The water resources in South Africa are threatened by current and past mining practices such as abandoned and closed mines. While mining is considered valuable for its contribution to this country’s gross domestic product, its polluting effects on water and land resources have been criticised as unsustainable. Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one specif...

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003. Includes bibliographical references.