Introduction to Industrial Health & Safety

It may seem so silly to ask such a question that why we need Occupational health, work safety and safe environment as it is well understood that nothing is more important than one’s life and a good health. But this question is so relevant in an industrial scenario where you will be made to work or you make others to work in such a way that you can’t be able to distinguish your consciousness and your work at some point of time, some days or many days. There will be times in an industrial scenario when we used to take risk with our life or others life when it comes to matter of time, work pressure or money. So it is important to convince our subconscious mind that you have to be alert and must have an additional imaginary sensory organs to deal with such indistinguishable situations. So it is essential to know more about the safe work practices relating to your work.

Millions of workers die, are injured, or fall ill every year as a result of workplace hazards. And one simple question is, aren’t they aware while working that their life is more important than their work. And the answer is that the situations may leads to such unexpected events as already discussed above. Nowadays improving occupational health and safety is in the best interests of all employees and workmen. So it is the responsibility of all to take measures for improving the occupational health and safety standards in ones workplace. Occupational health and safety has broad range of scopes such as

1. Promote and maintain the well being of employees.
2. Protect employees and others who may be affected by an organization’s activities from the risk to their health and safety.
3. Provide suitable and sufficient welfare facilities.
4. Establish a management frame work to manage and control workplace hazard, Minimize the consequences of failure, Monitor safety performance with the aim of continual improvement and align with other aims and objectives of the business.

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