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Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) encompasses three main fields: Occupational Safety, Occupational Health, and Industrial Hygiene, focusing on preventing workplace accidents and health issues. OSH aims to promote worker well-being, prevent adverse health effects, and adapt work environments to human needs through collaboration between employers and employees. It involves identifying and controlling hazards and risks to ensure a safe working environment.

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Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) encompasses three main fields: Occupational Safety, Occupational Health, and Industrial Hygiene, focusing on preventing workplace accidents and health issues. OSH aims to promote worker well-being, prevent adverse health effects, and adapt work environments to human needs through collaboration between employers and employees. It involves identifying and controlling hazards and risks to ensure a safe working environment.

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INTRODUCTION TO OSH

Presenter:

ENGR. MARY JEAN C. ARMIENDO, MME


College of Engineering, DMMMSU-MLUC
What is Occupational Safety and
Health (OSH)?
Occupational safety and
health is a discipline with
a broad scope involving
three major fields –
Occupational Safety,
Occupational Health and
Industrial Hygiene.
Occupational safety 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 health is a 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.
Industrial hygiene discusses the
identification, evaluation, and
control of physical, chemical,
biological and ergonomic hazards.
“In its broadest sense, OSH aims at:
• the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree
of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in
all occupations;
• the prevention of adverse health effects of the working
conditions
• the placing and maintenance of workers in an
occupational environment adapted to physical and
mental needs;
• the adaptation of work to humans (and NOT the other
way around).
Successful occupational health and safety
practice requires the collaboration and
participation of both employers and workers
in health and safety programs, and involves
the consideration of issues relating to
occupational medicine, industrial hygiene,
toxicology, education, engineering safety,
ergonomics, psychology, etc.

Hazard
– a source or situation with a
potential to cause harm in terms of
injury, ill health, damage to
property, damage to the
environment or a combination of
these.
Risk
– a combination of the likelihood of an
occurrence of a hazardous event with
specified period or in specified
circumstances and the severity of injury or
damage to the health of people, property,
environment or any combination of these
caused by the event.
 The hazards affecting the workplace
under each major area should be
detected, identified, controlled and, at
best, prevented from occurring by the
safety and health officer of the company.
 Occupationalsafety and health should be
integrated in every step of the work
process…

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