Department of Defence Annual Report 2008-2009

| Department of Defence |
Table 10.40b Leave Payouts FY 2008/09 – Public Service Act Personnel
Reason Total Amount Number of
Employees
Leave payout for FY 2008/09 due to nonutilisation
of leave for previous cycle
Leave payout for FY 2008/09 due to
discounting of leave
Leave payouts for FY 2008/09 on termination
of service
Average Payment
per Employee
240 476 122 1 971
1 355 474 494 2 744
12 411 507 852 14 567
TOTAL 14 007 457 1 468 9 542
Note: All vacation leave to an employee’s credit on termination of service by means of retirement, medical retirement, early
retirement, contract expiry or exit mechanisms are paid out. Discharges (misconduct) are excluded.
HIV/AIDS AND HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMMES
Table 10.41a Steps taken to reduce the risk of Occupational Exposure
Units/Categories of Employees Identied to be
at High Risk of Contracting HIV and Related
Diseases (if any)
Low risk: All Members
Medium risk: Members on Deployment
Internal to RSA)
High risk: Members on Deployment (External to RSA)
Table 10.41b Details of Health Promotion and HIV/Aids Programmes
Key Steps Taken to Reduce the Risk
• HIV workplace programmes
• Peer education
• Buddy-aid lectures
• First-aid boxes
• OHS programme
• Prevention and health-promotion programmes
• Lectures before external deployment
• Peer education
• Buddy-aid lectures
• Trained operational emergency care practitioners
• Plastic gloves
• Prevention and health-promotion programmes
• Peer education
• Trained operational emergency care practitioners
• Plastic gloves
• Specic HIV-prevention programmes
• Other health-promotion programmes
| Organisational Structure and Human Resources |
Question Yes No Details, if Yes
Has the department designated a member of
the SMS to implement the provision contained
in Part VI.e of Chapter 1 of the Public Service
Regulations, 2001 If so provide her/his name
and position
x
Brig Gen L.L. Siwisa
Director HIV/Aids
DOD HIV/Aids Programme Manager
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