Lesson 3
Occupational Health and Safety
Principles
,Core OSH principles
• Occupational safety and health is an extensive multi-
disciplinary field, invariably touching on issues related to
scientific areas such as
• medicine – including physiology and toxicology
• – ergonomics,
• physics and chemistry, as well as
• technology,
• economics,
• law and other areas specific to various industries and activities.
Despite this variety of concerns and interests, certain basic
principles can be identified, including the following:
, 1. All workers have rights. Workers, as well as employers and
governments, must ensure that these rights are protected and
must strive to establish and maintain decent working
conditions and a decent working environment.
• More specifically:
work should take place in a safe and healthy working
environment;
conditions of work should be consistent with workers’
well-being and human dignity;
work should offer real possibilities for personal
achievement, self fulfillment and service to society (ILO,
1984).
Occupational Health and Safety
Principles
,Core OSH principles
• Occupational safety and health is an extensive multi-
disciplinary field, invariably touching on issues related to
scientific areas such as
• medicine – including physiology and toxicology
• – ergonomics,
• physics and chemistry, as well as
• technology,
• economics,
• law and other areas specific to various industries and activities.
Despite this variety of concerns and interests, certain basic
principles can be identified, including the following:
, 1. All workers have rights. Workers, as well as employers and
governments, must ensure that these rights are protected and
must strive to establish and maintain decent working
conditions and a decent working environment.
• More specifically:
work should take place in a safe and healthy working
environment;
conditions of work should be consistent with workers’
well-being and human dignity;
work should offer real possibilities for personal
achievement, self fulfillment and service to society (ILO,
1984).
