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n. The activities and policies aimed at protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
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Occupational safety and health (OSH), also commonly referred to as occupational health and safety (OHS), occupational health, or workplace health and safety (WHS), is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work. These terms of course also refer to the goals of this field, so their use in the sense of this article was originally an abbreviation of occupational safety and health program/department etc.
The goals of occupational safety and health programs include to foster a safe and healthy work environment. OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers, and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment. In the United States, the term occupational health and safety is referred to as occupational health and occupational and non-occupational safety and includes safety for activities outside of work.
In common-law jurisdictions, employers have a common law duty to take reasonable care of the safety of their employees. Statute law may in addition impose other general duties, introduce specific duties, and create government bodies with powers to regulate workplace safety issues: details of this vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
All organizations have the duty to ensure that employees and any other person who may be affected by the organization's activities remain safe at all times.
Usage examples of "occupational safety and health".
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration was designed to police the core part of the problem, workplace safety.
Stanton knew Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations as well as anyone.
Employee Assistance Programs, state Employment Office, Job Training Programs, Displaced Worker Projects, Occupational Safety and Health Hot Lines, community colleges offer various technical skills courses, and there are many occupational-professional-union organizations.
Teece here is a senior investigator from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
And you're covered by Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations, when it comes to radiation doses you receive in space.
Pressing further, the two detectives talked with Jim Grymes, who was the Director of Occupational Safety and Health for the airline.
But we didn't need a fifty-page directive from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to know that we should vacate the premises as soon as possible.
But he had also opened the door to China, signed bills establishing the Environmental Protection Agency, the Legal Services Corporation, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and had supported affirmative action.
It had shocked Emma to learn that even comparatively unambitious human spaceflights incurred a lot of danger, much of it unacceptable to bodies like OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
You must be fluent in not only Spanish but the Kabbala-like intricacies of health codes, tax law, fire department regulations, environmental protection laws, building code, occupational safety and health regs, fair hiring practices, zoning, insurance, the vagaries and back-alley back-scratching of liquor licenses, the netherworld of trash removal, linen, grease disposal.