Occupational safety and health, also commonly referred to as occupational health and safety, occupational health, or occupational safety, is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at occupation.
The Importance of OSH Training
Although there is the basic instinctive regard for our health and safety and for others around us, there are many other reasons to make occupation health and safety a priority in the workplace, this includes:
Community expectations that organisations have a responsibility for those that work for them.
Legal obligations.
Insurable costs such as worker’s compensation premium that is linked to OHS performance.
Uninsurable costs such as lost time injury and reduced productivity, staff replacement, retraining costs as well as loss of business reputation.
Costs to the community, such as health services, rehabilitation and loss of skilled labour.
Costs to employees through reduced quality of life as a result of workplace injury and disease, reduced income for the injured and their family and grief by everyone involved.