BOSH REVIEWERS Questions and
Answers Grade A+
➢ It is a cross-disciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health
and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
✓ Occupational Safety and Health
➢ deals with understanding the causes of accidents at work and ways to
prevent unsafe act and unsafe conditions in any workplace. Safety at work
discusses concepts on good housekeeping, proper materials handling and
storage, machine safety, electrical safety, fire prevention and control, safety
inspection, and accident investigation.
✓ Occupational Safety
broad concept which explains how the different hazards and risks at work
may cause an illness and emphasizes that health programs are essential in
controlling work-related and/or occupational diseases.
✓ ● Occupational Health
➢ discusses the identification, evaluation, and control of physical, chemical,
biological and ergonomic hazards.
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✓ 📍Occupational Hygiene
Three Major Fields of OSH
✓ •Occupational Safety
✓ •Occupational Health
✓ •Occupational Hygiene
mandatory rules on occupational safety and health promulgated pursuant to
Article 162, Book IV of the Labor Code of the Philippines
✓ OSH STANDARDS
mandatory rules and standards set and enforced to eliminate or reduce
occupational safety and health hazards in the workplace
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✓ OSH STANDARDS
PURPOSE OF OSH STANDARDS
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✓ - aim to provide at least the minimum acceptable degree of
protection that must be afforded to every worker in relation to the
working conditions and dangers of injury, sickness or death that may
arise by reason of the worker's occupation
WHO ENFORCES OSH STANDARDS?
✓ - aim to provide at least the minimum acceptable degree of
protection that must be afforded to every worker in relation to the
working conditions and dangers of injury, sickness or death that may
arise by reason of the worker's occupation
Safety at work discusses (GPMEFSA) GoProMaElFiSaAc
✓ •concepts on good housekeeping
✓ •proper materials handling and storage,
✓ •machine safety,
✓ •electrical safety,
✓ •fire prevention and control, safety inspection,
✓ and
✓ •accident investigation.
WHAT ARE COVERED BY THE GENERAL OSH STANDARDS
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