OCCUPATIONAL SOCIAL WORK AND EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMMES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE WORLD OF WORK
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15270/45-4-186Abstract
Since the inception of the first formal Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) in South Africain 1986 by the Chamber of Mines of South Africa, as a result of a feasibility study completed in
December 1985, there has been enormous growth in this field of specialisation. Services were
soon expanded beyond the mining industry and infiltrated sectors such as the financial sector,
food sector and motor industry, to name a few. The public sector soon followed, but it was
only in 1996 that a formal commitment was made by the Department of Public Service
Administration (DPSA) to issue instructions to government departments on national, provincial
and local authority levels
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