OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Occupational Health and Safety Management (OH&S) is primarily concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work of any kind.  The goal is to foster a safe work environment.  This usually means providing:

• safe premises
• safe machinery and materials
• safe systems of
• work
• information
• instruction
• training and
• supervision
• suitable physical working environment and facilities

It is important to remember that the identification of hazards and the assessment of risk have two major aspects to performing the task:

1. the appraisal of physical conditions in which people work
2. the appraisal of the way in which people behave or act when working

 

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April 30, 2012 by Dr. Jon Warner