Industry associations in South Africa

EMS Sasol is a member of the CAIA (Chemical and Allied Industries Association) of South Africa. The Oil, Chemical Industries, Synthetic Fuels and Mining Explosives divisions have signed up to Responsible Care , but the remainder are stated to apply it internally. Compared to CAIA as a whole, Sasol is much further advanced in implementing the six Resonsible Care management practice standards. 

The Africa/Middle-East Working Group represents Crop Protection Industry Associations in Cameroun, Cote d Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria. 

The pharmaceutical industry was very pleased with the actions of the ustr, but decided to pursue the matter further. In February 1998, the consortium of 40 drug companies, led by the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of South Africa, filed a suit. Its key legal claim was that the statute, the Medicines Amendment Act of 1997, was in violation of South African obligations under trips. It was also claimed that the statute was unconstitutional because it gave sweeping power to South Africa s health minister to override the country s patent laws (Kongolo, 2001). For its part, the South African government promised to defend the Medicines Act, which could not be implemented because of the lawsuit. 

A survey method was applied in this study, which gave a broad overview of the organic fanning industry and the problems of the conversion process in South Africa. The data were collected by means of postal questionnaires. Contact details were obtained from the different certification organisations that are active in South Africa as well as from the Cape Organic Producer Association (COPA) and the Organic Agriculture Association of South Africa (OAASA). 

Several prominent South African industrialists, of whom Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a leading figure, decided that there was a great need to form an association that would concern itself with safety in industry. The prevention of road and home injuries was also a pressing need, and in June 1932 the Safety First Association of South Africa was formed. 

Both the absolute numbers and the rates have practical significance. The absolute numbers give measures to the industry and to siKiety in general of the burden of accidents. Experience elsewhere has shown that serious injuries and fatalities are associated with ever increasing costs. Thus, as the cost of medical treatment, compensation, internip-tion of production, payment of fines, etc. will increase in South Africa, the motivation to keep the absolute numbers of accidents as low as possible will increase, (pp. 55-56)... 

Industry Associations and the Changing Politics of Making Medicines in South Africa... 

This chapter builds on these notions by analysing the changing role of biopharmaceutical industry associations and related umbrella organizations in South Africa since the 1960s when the sector s first industry... 

Storm runoff from an industrial site in Rhode Island used by oil distributors, scrap metal dealers, and metal finishers contained a hydrocarbon product resembling fuel oil no. 2. This product comprised 4% of the total petroleum hydrocarbons detected in the ranoff, most of which were associated with crankcase oil (Latimer et al. 1990). Two freighters collided off the coast of South Africa in 1992 the freighter transporting 160 tons of marine fuel oil and 53 tons of gas oil sank (Molden 1992). 

The National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA) of South Africa developed the NOSA Five-Star System in the early 1970s. It was based on 25 years of consulting experience by NOSA field staff and 150,000 safety surveys that had been conducted across a wide range of industries and mines. 

Australian Mineral Industries Research Association (AMIRA) http //www.amira.com.au/ (accessed July 12,2010). AMIRA International is an industry association and not-for-profit, private sector company that manages collaborative research for more member companies in the minerals industry in Australasia, Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. The association provides a forum for the minerals industry to meet, network, and cooperate in areas of common interest. AMIRA develops and manages jointly funded research projects on a fee-for-service basis on behalf of its members. 

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