Fleet Command hosted 26
post-graduate students in Occupational Medicine from the
Faculty of Medicine and Health Services, University of
Stellenbosch on 26 July 2012. This visit is the
culmination of approval granted by the Health
Professions Council of South Africa that the Regional
Occupational Health Centre be used as a satellite
teaching department.
The visitors commenced their visit with a presentation
at Fleet Command Hq
The activities of the SA Navy
are unique in meeting specific training requirements of
these students and therefore the main aim of the visit
was to introduce the students to the core business
activities of the SA Navy followed by an introduction on
the way Safety Health and Environmental Management is
addressed within the organisation.
The visit included
briefings by Chief of Fleet Staff, R Adm (JG) G.
Jamieson on Fleet Command, SO1 Fleet OHS, Cdr G.W. Kwak
on Operational Risk Management (ito Safety, Health and
Environmental Management in the Fleet/Naval Dockyard
Services) and Lt Col (Dr) J.J. Truter on Medical
Surveillance and Occupational Hygiene. The students and
their Facilitator, Dr W.A.J. Meintjies were then taken
on a guided tour to the Naval Dockyard, SAS ISANDLWANA
as well as the Diving School and Submarine Escape
Training Facility.
The strategic alliance
between the SA Navy and the tertiary institutions are of
the utmost importance in terms of promoting the
development of scare skills and to sensitise the
respective professional institutions on the vision of
the SA Navy to remain “Unchallenged at Sea”.
