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Make Safety A Way Of Life...Worldwide

“INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL

HEALTH AND SAFETY”

Welcome to our Safety Training

April 16, 2014



WORLD SAFETY ORGANIZATIONNATIONAL OFFICE in QATAR

Prepared by:

Make Safety A Way of Life...Worldwide

Goal of the Module

This Module provides trainees with general background information on occupational health and safety, and on the magnitude and variety of health and safety problems worldwide, and explains the role of the health and safety representative.


Objectives

(1) explain that occupational health and safety is more than accident prevention — that it encompasses all aspects of working conditions; (2) explain why management's commitment to health and safety is crucial; (3) explain why training is a critical component of any health and safety programme; (4) recognize a number of occupational hazards and some of the types of work generally associated with those hazards; (5) Discuss the range of hazards in their own workplaces. the role of the health and safety representative.


I. INTRODUCTION What is occupational health and safety? Occupational health and safety is a discipline with a broad scope involving many specialized fields. In its broadest sense, it should aim at: • the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of

physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations;

• the prevention among workers of adverse effects on health caused by their working conditions;

• the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health;

• the placing and maintenance of workers in an occupational environment adapted to physical and mental needs;

• The adaptation of work to humans.


In other words, occupational health and safety encompasses the social, mental and physical well-being of workers that is the “whole person”. Successful occupational health and safety practice requires the collaboration and participation of both employers and workers in health and safety programs, and involves the consideration of issues relating to occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, toxicology, education, engineering safety, ergonomics, psychology, etc.


Occupational health issues are often given less attention than occupational safety issues because the former are generally more difficult to confront. However, when health is addressed, so is safety, because a healthy workplace is by definition also a safe workplace. The converse, though, may not be true - a so-called safe workplace is not necessarily also a healthy workplace. The important point is that issues of both health and safety must be addressed in every workplace. By and large, the definition of occupational health and safety given above encompasses both health and safety in their broadest contexts.

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