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Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24196 Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers Nkomo, Mokubung O. gwynt@law.co.za Tuchten, Gwyneth Myfanwy Mineworker Policy Self-efficacy Mining Health and safety Adult education Adult learner Adult basic education and training Training South africa UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. The aim of this research is to inform conceptual approaches to health and safety (H&S) training for mineworkers in South Africa. The study focuses specifically on those mineworkers who have the least formal education or training, termed elementary workers (unskilled) and machinery operators and drivers (semi-skilled). It is an integrative literature review of sources drawn from mine health and safety in South Africa; self-efficacy; adult education and training (AET); education and training in mining; and relevant health promotion studies. The sources selected refer to work in the Southern African mine H&S context, or comparable situations. Compelling ideas and formulations for training are suggested in the literature of the different disciplines reviewed. A core concept considered is self-efficacy and the concept has substantial support in the literature. Both the term and concept of ‘self-efficacy’ have been used in South African and mining studies, but often without proper consideration of the sources of self-efficacy and its task- and context-specificity. The review reveals a lack of evidence of effective advocacy and training around generic mining occupational hazards, such as lung disease. H&S training is most evidently linked to operator training, which is aligned with unit-standards. However, substantial numbers of mineworkers lack adequate formal education for such training programmes, or the informal skills to be included via recognition of prior learning (RPL) processes. The proposed role of H&S representatives appears demanding, but the associated skills training outlined in public unit standards, lacks essential elements. The findings identify key considerations for an underpinning approach to H&S training for elementary mineworkers. These are: new learning required; risk perception and management; existing and associated logics; team ethos; maintaining new learning and practice; and a dialogic aspect to programmes. Additional findings suggest that the convergent effects of different policies result in the training of the least educated mineworkers being marginalised. The study concludes with six propositions that relate to the research and development of H&S training for mineworkers, public evidence of training, policy effects and the predicament of mineworkers who lack formal education. Education Management and Policy Studies unrestricted 2013-09-06T16:54:31Z 2012-05-08 2013-09-06T16:54:31Z 2012-04-18 2011 2012-04-28 Thesis Tuchten, GM 2011, Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers , PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24196 > D12/4/253/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24196 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04282012-165523/ © 2011 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Mineworker Policy Self-efficacy Mining Health and safety Adult education Adult learner Adult basic education and training Training South africa UCTD Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers |
| title | Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers |
| title_full | Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers |
| title_fullStr | Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers |
| title_short | Concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of South African mine workers |
| title_sort | concept development for facilitating the health and safety efficacy of south african mine workers |
| topic | Mineworker Policy Self-efficacy Mining Health and safety Adult education Adult learner Adult basic education and training Training South africa UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24196 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04282012-165523/ |