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Occupational Health and Safety - Coggle Diagram
Occupational Health and Safety
Discipline concerned with preserving and protecting human resources in the workplace
Adopted by WHO Commiyyee on Occupational Health 1950
Occupational Health and safety is a crossdisciplinary ar4ea and it interacts with other discuplines
Objectives
Promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers
Preservation of workers health caused by their working conditions.
Protection of workers in their employment from risks
Placing and maintenance of a worker in an occupational enviroment adapted to his physiological equipment
The prime Objectives of OHS at a global level is to ensure that health and safety is accesible to every worker employed in any sector across the economy
Global Strategy on Occupational Health for All
Stregthening of international policies for health at work and developing the necessary policy tools
Development of healthy work environment
Development of healthy work practices and promotion of health at work
Strengthening of OHS
Establishing of support services for occupational Health
Development of occupational health standards base on scientific risk assesment
Development of human resources for occupational health
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Historical and Legal contest
The origins of occupational health and safety concerns can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution
Men and women workers were exposed to harmful gases, toxins, acids,, extreme heat and cold temperatures
In USA, the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970, was an effort to protect workers from the dangers they faced in the workplace
Issues of health, hygiene and hazard control are essential and have to be dealt with by state govermments.
Occupational Hygiene
Defined by the International Occupational Hygiene Association as the discipline of anticipationg, recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards
Practice of Occupational Hygiene
The recognition of the possible health hazards in the work enviroment
The evaluation of Hazards
Prevention and control of Hazards
Participate in overall risk analysis and management of an agent