Workplace
Health and safety is about providing a
safe and healthy workplace to the employees. According to International Labour Organisation
definition, the main aim of the Occupational health is the promotion
and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being
of workers in all occupations. Health and safety is to ensure that risks to employee's safety and
health. It is made clear that in the fields of health and safety, there
are three E's, such as Engineering. Enforcement and Education. Engineering
entails about the awareness of safety issues when designing equipment and then
Education includes train employees in safety procedures and how to safely do
their job. Also Enforcement is the rules and policies should be firmly imposed.
Around the world, there are 270 million occupational accidents,
160 million workers suffers from occupational diseases and 2.2 million
occupational deaths in the world. The cost to society is several billion pounds
now. Britain has the lowest fatal injury rate in the European. It further stated that 37% of male and 29% of the female workers
consider that their work represent a risk to their health. Uncomfortable
postures and physical effort are the most common occupational risk for both
women and men. For the men the greater amount of hazards is found in
agriculture, construction, transport and communications whereas for women those
are mainly found in agriculture, mineral processing and manufacturing
industries.
The Health and Safety
Executive places great emphasis on the requirement systems. Here they cover
inspection, monitoring and auditing as essential features of the action
required by organisation to satisfy their regulatory duties. Those systems are
designed to prevent any failures that lead to accidents, incidents and
prosecutions.
Spain has the largest rates of accident in the European
countries according to their survey and here National survey of working
conditions conducted in 2001 in Spain stated that 59% of the workers were
exposed to hazards at work, 33% were exposed to noise while 32% were exposed to
chemical pollutants and about 50% of the workers maintained static postures or
perform repetitive movements during a quarter of their working time. Health and
safety should be important for the every employees in an organization for the
better development. For more
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