JOAKIM CHACHA

JOAKIM CHACHA

Medical Health Scientist,
East African Regional Quality Mentor,
Citizenship: Tanzanian
Telephone: +255787051903
Email: tanzania18@gmail.com
Professional Association: MeLSAT
Interest:Training and Research

Location Tanzania,East Africa

Activity

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Control measures

    PPE can be dangerous and be the source of harzard if not peroperly used or/and selected at work ,can be as a source of contamination,spreading Infection or Health injuries/harmful accidents

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Risk matrix

    Risk Matrix helps much to assess Risks

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Risk assessment – an example

    Good elaborations and easy to understand.
    Thank you organizers,
    I expected to note the use of terminologies such as likelihood and Severity during Risk assessment as their main functionality,R = S x L

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    RISK ASSESSMENT

    Very useful session helped and motivated to read different references including from WHO,ILO and country specific Acts with their implementation strategies,prioritization,country challenges, effective designing the way forward to provide solutions for occupation health and safety problems specifically in developing countries.
    Employers to be responsible for...

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Discussion about the building site

    In Tanzania we have such kind of building sites with unsafe practices and most of them are found in villages and peripheral areas of the cities at which the law enforcers are not much found for frequent inspections and the available local administrators (street leaders) have low skills and knowledge about occupation Health and Hazards.

    The Labour...

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    What should labour inspectors do?

    I opted Stop work, ask for quick improvements as the working situation seen from the photograph shows many risks such as the workers has no safety equipment to prevent physical injuries when accident occur, The scaffold is high, and the mats the workers walk on during their work are soft and not safe, poor enough the bottom part is most dangerous with high...

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Legislation and actors in occupational health

    knowing the specific Acts or Laws and regulations helps much when dealing with the employer or any body of authority,we need more efforts to let our fellow workers know,we still have some challenges on how to make them know.
    I could suggest the respective Authorities like OSHA and trained personnel at work to train the Staffs,also Education system varies...

  • JOAKIM CHACHA replied to Seshananda Sanjel
    Definition of occupational health and the size of the problem

    might be there are some either political limits or administrative issues when comes to implementation measures

  • JOAKIM CHACHA replied to arthur makanga
    Definition of occupational health and the size of the problem

    truly speaks much

  • JOAKIM CHACHA replied to Mildred Nabuduwa
    Definition of occupational health and the size of the problem

    I agree this is might be due to the facts that the employer is responsible to handle and compensate the worker when affected, so it non beneficial to them,most of them are looking for addition math(+)

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Definition of occupational health and the size of the problem

    Political will is real a high mountain to climb when it comes about the agreed implementation measures to safeguard and protect the workers as well as to compensations when a worker is affected at work,the Acts and regulations are not well known to most of the workers leading to delay or/and even not to get their benefits from it.

    Thank you for updates,I...

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Why would you like to learn about Occupational Health in Developing Countries?

    Am Joakim Chacha 38 years old,Male From Tanzania,Medical Laboratory scientist working and living in Tanzania Motivated to learn on Occupation health to help assess the risks at work with their respective control measures,most subjects is on health and medicine,laws and Teaching.
    Expect to share experiences from my colleagues

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Basic concepts

    Thank you for an introduction,well described and informative welcome-note.

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Welcome to Week 1

    Well organized,I enjoyed the Terminologies...hope to enjoy more

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Introduce yourself

    Hello,
    Am Tanzanian ,Working with the Ministry of Health and community development,Hope to gain and share experiences as well as to Participate in learning,willing to serve my community and for Global Security

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    Welcome to the course

    Thank you

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    Acknowledgements

    Thanks for their support to the course

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    How it works

    Well organized and easy to access.

  • JOAKIM CHACHA made a comment
    CARING FOR CHILDREN MOVING ALONE: PROTECTING UNACCOMPANIED AND SEPARATED CHILDREN

    Hope I will be a best beneficiary of the course skills as our country have refugees camps and the unaccompanied children,also will help to relate international wise or in Global security aspects