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16-September-2008 16:15:10 - Occupational safety and health Redirected from Occupational health Occupational safety and health is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. As a secondary effect, it may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, suppliers, nearby communities, and other members of the public who are impacted by the workplace environment. Since 1950, the International Labour Organization ILO and the World Health Organization WHO have shared a common definition of occupational health. It was adopted by the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its first session in 1950 and revised at its twelfth session in 1995. The definition reads: Occupational health 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 amongst workers of departures from 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 the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities; and, to summarize, the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job. The reasons for establishing good occupational safety and health standards are frequently identified as: Moral - An employee should not have to risk injury at work, nor should others associated with the work environment. Economic - many governments realize that poor occupational safety and health performance results in cost to the State e.g. through social security payments to the incapacitated, costs for medical treatment, and the loss of the employability of the worker. Employing organisations also sustain costs in the event of an incident at work such as legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time, lost production, lost goodwill from the workforce, from customers and from the wider community. Legal - Occupational safety and health requirements may be reinforced in civil law and/or criminal law; it is accepted that without the extra encouragement of potential regulatory action or litigation, many organisations would not act upon their implied moral obligations. Contents 1 National implementing legislation 2 Hazards, risks, outcomes 3 Risk assessment 4 Common workplace hazard groups 5 See also 5.1 General 5.2 Government organizations 5.3 Laws 5.4 Fields 5.5 Workplace environmental standards 5.6 Other 6 External links 7 Further reading National implementing legislation Different states take different approaches to legislation, regulation, and enforcement. In the European Union, member states have enforcing authorities to ensure that the basic legal requirements relating to occupational safety and health are met. In many EU countries, there is strong cooperation between employer and worker organisations e.g. Unions to ensure good OSH performance as it is recognized this has benefits for both the worker through maintenance of health and the enterprise through improved productivity and quality. In 1996 the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work was founded. Member states of the European Union have all transposed into their national legislation a series of directives that establish minimum standards on occupational safety and health. These directives of which there are about 20 on a variety of topics follow a similar structure requiring the employer to assess the workplace risks and put in place preventive measures based on a hierarchy of control. This hierarchy starts with elimination of the hazard and ends with personal protective equipment. In the UK, health and safety legislation is drawn up and enforced by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities the local council under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Increasingly in the UK the regulatory trend is away from prescriptive rules, and towards risk assessment. Recent major changes to the laws governing asbestos and fire safety management embrace the concept of risk assessment. In the USA, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 19701created both the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA. OSHA, in the U.S. Department of Labor, is responsible for developing and enforcing workplace safety and health regulations. NIOSH, in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is focused on research, information, education, and training in occupational safety and health. OSHA has been regulating occupational safety and health since 1971. Occupational safety and health regulation of a limited number of specifically defined industries was in place for several decades before that, and broad regulations by some individual states was in place for many years prior to the establishment of OSHA. In Canada, workers are covered by provincial or federal labour codes depending on the sector in which they work. Workers covered by federal legislation including those in mining, transportation, and federal employment are covered by the Canada Labour Code; all other workers are covered by the health and safety legislation of the province they work in. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety CCOHS, an agency of the Government of Canada, was created in 1978 by an Act of Parliament. The act was based on the belief that all Canadians had ...a fundamental right to a healthy and safe working environment. . CCOHS is mandated to promote safe and healthy workplaces to help prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. In Malaysia, the Department of Occupational Safety and Health DOSH under the Ministry of Human Resource is responsible to ensure that the safety, health and welfare of workers in both the public and private sector is upheld. DOSH is responsible to enforce the Factory and Machinery Act 1969 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994. Occupational safety and health may involve interaction among many cognate disciplines, including occupational medicine, occupational or industrial hygiene, public health, safety engineering, health physics, ergonomics, toxicology, epidemiology, industrial relations, public policy, sociology, and psychology. Hazards, risks, outcomes The terminology used in OSH varies between states, but generally speaking: A hazard is something that can cause harm if not controlled. The outcome is the harm that results from an uncontrolled hazard. A risk is a combination of the probability that a particular outcome will occur and the severity of the harm involved. Hazard, risk, and outcome are used in other fields to describe e.g. environmental damage, or damage to equipment. However, in the context of OSH, harm generally describes the direct or indirect degradation, temporary or permanent, of the physical, mental, or social well-being of workers. For example, repetitively carrying out manual handling of heavy objects is a hazard. The outcome would be a musculoskeletal disorder MSD. The risk can be expressed numerically, e.g. a 0.5 or 50/50 chance of the outcome occurring during a year, qualitatively as high/medium/low, or using a more complicated classification scheme. Risk assessment Modern occupational safety and health legislation usually demands that a risk assessment be carried out prior to making an intervention. This assessment should: Identify the hazards Identify all affected by the hazard and how Evaluate the risk Identify and prioritise the required actions The calculation of risk is based on the likelihood or probability of the harm being realised and the severity of the consequences. This can be expressed mathematically as a quantitative assessment by assigning low, medium and high likelihood and severity with integers and multiplying them to obtain a risk factor, or qualitatively as a description of the circumstances by which the harm could arise. The assessment should be recorded and reviewed periodically and whenever there is a significant change to work practices. The assessment should include practical recommendations to control the risk. Once recommended controls are implemented, the risk should be re-calculated to determine of it has been lowered to an acceptable level. Generally speaking, newly introduced controls should lower risk by one level, i.e, from high to medium or from medium to low The precautionary principle is an increasingly used method for reducing potential chemical or biological OSH risks. Common workplace hazard groups Harry McShane, age 16, 1908. Pulled into machinery in a factory in Cincinnati. His arm was ripped off at the shoulder and his leg broken. No compensation paid. Photograph by Lewis Hine. Harry McShane, age 16, 1908. Pulled into machinery in a factory in Cincinnati. His arm was ripped off at the shoulder and his leg broken. No compensation paid. Photograph by Lewis Hine. Workplace hazards are often grouped into physical hazards, physical agents, chemical agents, environmental hazards, environmental agents, and psychosocial issues. Physical hazards include: Collisions Confined space Slips and trips Falls from height Struck by objects Workplace transport Equipment-related injury Electricity Heavy metals Physical agents include: noise vibration lighting barotrauma hypobaric / hyperbaric pressure Biological hazards include: bacteria Virus Chemical agents include: acids ionizing radiation lead solvents Environmental hazards include: dehydration Environmental agents include: cold stress heat stress particulate inhalation Fire hazards explosion fumes high reactivity chemicals petroleum Mechanical hazards include: compressed air/high pressure fluids crushing cutting draw in entanglement friction and abrasion impact moving parts shearing stabbing and puncture Psychosocial issues include: Work related stress, whose causal factors include excessive working time and overwork Violence from outside the organisation Bullying sometimes called mobbing which may include emotional, verbal, and Sexual harassment Other issues include: Reproductive hazards Avoidance of musculoskeletal disorders by the employment of good ergonomic design Prevention of fire often comes within the remit of health and safety professionals as well. See also Organized Labour portal General Public safety Material safety data sheet Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems - OHSMS ANSI Z10 OHSAS 18001 Government organizations Occupational Safety and Health Administration US European Agency for Safety and Health at Work EU Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Canada WSIB Ontario, Canada Australian Safety and Compensation Council ASCC Australia International Labour Organisation United Nations Health and Safety Executive UK National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health US Workplace Safety Health Council Singapore Laws Occupational Safety and Health Act US Health and Safety at Work Act UK Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 Malaysia Indonesian Act No.1/1970 about Occupational Safety at Work 1970 Indonesia Timeline of major U.S. environmental and occupational health regulation Workplace Safety and Health Act Singapore Fields Construction safety Mine safety Ergonomics, Participatory Ergonomics Hazard analysis Hazop Industrial hygiene Process Safety Management Psychology Toxicology Epidemiology Health Psychology Workplace environmental standards ISO 8518 ISO 8672 ISO 8760 - ISO 8762 ISO 9486 - ISO 9487 ISO 11041 ISO 11174 ISO 15202 ISO 15767 ISO 16107 ISO 16200 ISO 16702 ISO 16740 ISO 17733 - ISO 17734 ISO 17737 ISO 20552 Other Occupational hygiene Occupational illness Occupational rehabilitation Occupational risk assessment Occupational therapy Asbestosis - Compensation and Liability Disputes Hazards a UK-based, independent, union-friendly health and safety magazine Disability Management External links ILO International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre US CDC page on Workplace Safety Health UK Health Safety Executive - Getting started for Small Business Society for Occupational Health Psychology Workers Health and Safety Centre - Leading Canadian workplace health and safety training organization Occubus - an Occupational Medicine and Health wiki European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Further reading Ladou, Joseph 2006. Current Occupational Environmental Medicine, 4th ion, McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 0-07-144313-4. Roughton, James 2002. Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach, 1th ion, Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-7411-3. OHSAS 18000 series: derived from a British Standard, OHSAS is intended to be compatible with ISO 9000 and 14000 series standards, but is not itself an ISO standard Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Occupational_safety_and_health Categories: Occupational safety and health | Occupational safety | Industrial hygiene | Safety engineering Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Deutsch Ελληνικά Esperanto Español Français עברית Hrvatski Italiano Norsk bokmål Norsk nynorsk Polski Svenska 中文 This page was last modified on 13 August 2008, at 07:4
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