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    Introduction To Occupational Safety and Health: (OSH and The BOSH Framework)

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    This document provides an introduction to occupational safety and health (OSH) and the BOSH framework. It defines OSH and its three major fields - occupational safety, occupational health, and industrial hygiene. Occupational safety deals with understanding and preventing accidents at work. Occupational health explains how work hazards can cause illness and emphasizes health programs to control work-related diseases. Industrial hygiene identifies, evaluates, and controls physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic hazards. The overall goal of OSH is to promote workers' physical, mental, and social well-being by preventing health issues from working conditions.

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    This document provides an introduction to occupational safety and health (OSH) and the BOSH framework. It defines OSH and its three major fields - occupational safety, occupational health, and industrial hygiene. Occupational safety deals with understanding and preventing accidents at work. Occupational health explains how work hazards can cause illness and emphasizes health programs to control work-related diseases. Industrial hygiene identifies, evaluates, and controls physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic hazards. The overall goal of OSH is to promote workers' physical, mental, and social well-being by preventing health issues from working conditions.

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    Occupational Health and Safety

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    This document provides an introduction to occupational safety and health (OSH) and the BOSH framework. It defines OSH and its three major fields - occupational safety, occupational health, and industrial hygiene. Occupational safety deals with understanding and preventing accidents at work. Occupational health explains how work hazards can cause illness and emphasizes health programs to control work-related diseases. Industrial hygiene identifies, evaluates, and controls physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic hazards. The overall goal of OSH is to promote workers' physical, mental, and social well-being by preventing health issues from working conditions.

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    Introduction To Occupational Safety and Health: (OSH and The BOSH Framework)

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    Introduction to Occupational

    Safety and Health


    (OSH and the BOSH Framework)
    Learning Objectives

    Working on this module should help you to:


    - have an overview of the BOSH Course and the importance of safety and
    health
    - define OSH and its three major fields – Occupational Safety, Occupational
    Health and Industrial Hygiene
    - identify work hazards and risks and recommend control measures to
    reduce or eliminate work-related accidents and illness
    - acquire basic knowledge & skills on OSH, such as safe work practices,
    that will enable you to plan/develop your company’s Safety and Health
    program.
    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
    In other words,
    occupational health and
    environment
    safety encompasses the
    social, mental and
    adapted to physical and mental needs;
    physical well-being of
    workers, that is, the
    • the adaptation of work to humans (and
    “whole person”. NOT the other way around).
    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.
    Occupational safety and health should be
    integrated in every step of the work
    process, starting from storage and use of
    raw materials, the manufacture of
    products, release of by-products, use of
    various equipment and ensuring a non-
    hazardous or risk-free work environment.

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