Occupational Health and Safety

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This covers worker's health and safety in the workplace, including regulations for hazardous materials handling, proper machine operation, and protocols for workplace accidents.

Quote: "Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS), also known simply as occupational health or occupational safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work."
Quote: "OSH is related to the fields of occupational medicine and occupational hygiene."
Quote: "The goal of an occupational safety and health program is to foster a safe and healthy occupational environment."
Quote: "OSH also protects all the general public who may be affected by the occupational environment."
Quote: "Almost 2 million people die each year attributable to exposure to occupational risk factors."
Quote: "Globally, more than 2.78 million people die annually as a result of workplace-related accidents or diseases, corresponding to one death every fifteen seconds."
Quote: "There are an additional 374 million non-fatal work-related injuries annually."
Quote: "It is estimated that the economic burden of occupational-related injury and death is nearly four per cent of the global gross domestic product each year."
Quote: "In common-law jurisdictions, employers have the common law duty (also called duty of care) to take reasonable care of the safety of their employees."
Quote: "Statute law may, in addition, impose other general duties, introduce specific duties, and create government bodies with powers to regulate occupational safety issues."
Quote: "These terms also refer to the goals of this field, so their use in the sense of this article was originally an abbreviation of occupational safety and health program/department etc."
Quote: "The goal of an occupational safety and health program is to foster a safe and healthy occupational environment."
Quote: "OSH also protects all the general public who may be affected by the occupational environment."
Quote: "Globally, more than 2.78 million people die annually as a result of workplace-related accidents or diseases, corresponding to one death every fifteen seconds."
Quote: "There are an additional 374 million non-fatal work-related injuries annually."
Quote: "It is estimated that the economic burden of occupational-related injury and death is nearly four per cent of the global gross domestic product each year."
Quote: "In common-law jurisdictions, employers have the common law duty (also called duty of care) to take reasonable care of the safety of their employees."
Quote: "Statute law may, in addition, impose other general duties, introduce specific duties, and create government bodies with powers to regulate occupational safety issues."
Quote: "Occupational safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS), also known simply as occupational health or occupational safety."
Quote: "OSH is related to the fields of occupational medicine and occupational hygiene."