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MNO2603 Assignment 3 Semester 2 2024 - DUE 10 September 2024
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- MNO2603 (MNO2603)
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- University Of South Africa (Unisa)
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[Company name]MNO2603
Assignment 3
Semester 2 2024 -
DUE 10 September
2024
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
,MNO2603 Assignment 3 Semester 2 2024 - DUE 10 September 2024
In Focus:
What the Charlotte Maxeke fire tells us about health and safety in Gauteng
hospitals Just weeks before a fire tore through parts of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital
in Johannesburg on 16 April, a fire safety audit at the hospital was signed off and
in March a hospital fire and safety team met, according to the Gauteng Department
of Health. Yet Kwara Kekana, spokesperson for Gauteng Health also confirmed in
responses to questions from Spotlight that “the smoke doors are not used as the
magnetic system on the doors was no longer effective and they were
recommissioned”. Smoke doors are used to prevent the spread of smoke in a
building when there is a fire. She also confirmed that fire hydrant couplings were
not compatible with the fire hoses on Johannesburg Fire Service fire engines
because “some had been stolen”. Spotlight has requested, but not received a copy
of the fire audit/ inspection report from the Gauteng Health Department, the
Department of Infrastructure and Development, and the City of Joburg’s Fire
Services. Fire compliance failures Two senior firefighters from the City of
Johannesburg who spoke to Spotlight, say the two failings (mentioned by Kekana
above) alone would sink a basic inspection or compliance audit. It was also not just
the fire doors and the hydrant couplings that were faulty at Charlotte Maxeke.
They say firefighters were not given building and floor plans of the hospital’s
emergency exit plan when they arrived on the scene the day of the fire on April 16.
The emergency exit plan is essential for those needing to enter a burning building.
Smoke detection systems, fire alarms, sprinkler systems, and the mechanisms that
would have triggered the magnetic smoke doors were also not in working
condition. There was also water flow and low pressure to the hydrants besides non-
, compatible hose couplings. The two men asked to have their identities withheld.
MNO2603 ASSESSMENT 3 2024 6 The fire at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital on 16
April marks the fourth in six years at public health facilities in Gauteng. In
February this year, a fire broke out at Carletonville Hospital, in May 2019 there
was a fire at Bheki Mlangeni Hospital in Soweto, and Tambo Memorial Hospital in
Boksburg in May 2015. The fire in September 2018 devastated a provincial health
department’s head office in the Bank of Lisbon building in the Joburg inner city.
That blaze claimed the lives of three firefighters. “These are politicians, they are
telling lies and doing cover-ups – they must show you that inspection report for
Charlotte Maxeke because they are sending us into these places to die. “With fire
doors, we call these lifesavers because they can help you trap a fire – these should
have been there,” says *Nathi, who has been in the fire services for 14 years. Fire
hazards in hospitals and other public buildings throughout the city are widespread.
*Richard, who has been with the Joburg fire service for 22 years says it ranges
from lifts that have not been serviced for years; fire escapes that are obstructed and
regularly used for makeshift storage and dumping space; fire extinguishers
gathering dust or used as door stops and facility health and safety committees who
are slack on fire safety compliance if they meet at all. A fire service ‘in shambles’
Added to this, Nathi and Richard say their own department of the City of Joburg
Fire Services is in shambles. There are only four working fire trucks for the entire
city. There has also been an ongoing political blame game and court battles.
Former Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba’s multi-million rand deal to procure
specialised fire engines in 2019 was never delivered on. In April 2021, the deal
was ruled unlawful by the South Gauteng High Court. Nana Radebe, spokesperson
for Joburg Emergency Services, confirms that they currently have just over half of
the equipment – 51 out of 92 items – needed to have the city’s fire service meet
national fire safety standards (the SANS 10090). Radebe also says high levels of
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