Management
Health and Safety
, Health & Safety
policies
Programmes concerned with protecting
employees and other people - by what the
company produces and does - against the
hazards arising from employment or their
links with the company.
There are two types of programmes:
– Occupational health:
Occupational medicine- prevention of health hazards at
work
Occupational hygiene- engage in measurements &
control of environmental hazards
– Safety programmes: dealing with prevention of
accidents
, Managing health & safety at
work
In the tourism & hospitality industry
there are several job that kill or injure
people or where people suffer from ill
health.
Apart from the pain and misery caused
to those involved directly and
indirectly employers of work related
injury and illness face a heavy cost.