Lesson 1 and 2
Introduction to Occupation health
and safety
, Introduction and historical
perspectives
• Occupational health and safety is one of the
most important aspects of human concern.
• It aims at ensuring that workers work in
conducive working environment that promotes
and maintain the highest degree of physical,
mental and social well being in all occupations.
,The entire unit is about the safety of work place.
• “all have a right to safety”
• Whether a person is a volunteer, a paid worker, a work
experience student or a contractor (or any other type of worker
you can think of) they have a right to have their health and safety
protected when they are carrying out work.
• People who are affected by work, for instance clients you assist
when you are volunteering, also have a right to have their health and
safety protected or not put at risk by the work being carried out.
• Organisations like ours (learning institutions) who engage
workers of all types also have work health and safety rights.
• Primarily, organisations have a right to expect that all workers
and visitors to their workplaces will take care and co-operate with
work health and safety rules.
, The objectives of occupational health and safety
include:
• To maintain and promote the physical, mental and
social well being of the workers.
• To prevent occupational diseases and injuries.
• To adapt the work place and work environment to
the needs of the workers i.e application of
ergonomics principle.
• It should be preventive rather than curative.
Introduction to Occupation health
and safety
, Introduction and historical
perspectives
• Occupational health and safety is one of the
most important aspects of human concern.
• It aims at ensuring that workers work in
conducive working environment that promotes
and maintain the highest degree of physical,
mental and social well being in all occupations.
,The entire unit is about the safety of work place.
• “all have a right to safety”
• Whether a person is a volunteer, a paid worker, a work
experience student or a contractor (or any other type of worker
you can think of) they have a right to have their health and safety
protected when they are carrying out work.
• People who are affected by work, for instance clients you assist
when you are volunteering, also have a right to have their health and
safety protected or not put at risk by the work being carried out.
• Organisations like ours (learning institutions) who engage
workers of all types also have work health and safety rights.
• Primarily, organisations have a right to expect that all workers
and visitors to their workplaces will take care and co-operate with
work health and safety rules.
, The objectives of occupational health and safety
include:
• To maintain and promote the physical, mental and
social well being of the workers.
• To prevent occupational diseases and injuries.
• To adapt the work place and work environment to
the needs of the workers i.e application of
ergonomics principle.
• It should be preventive rather than curative.
