"Occupational health deals with all aspects of health and safety in the workplace and has a strong focus on primary prevention of hazards", says World Health Organization."
Health and safety is obviously an important part of any business, regardless of how remote the risks may be as workplace injuries and accidents are awful for employees, terrible for morale and in serious cases, can spell the end of a business.The concern over occupational health and safety saw its light since the industrial revolution took place. In-order to avoid unforeseen injuries and fatalities, it has become a highly necessary factor fororganisations to implement suitable systems and standards to help lower the risk of workplace accidents. Demonstrating a rigorous approach to occupational health and safety is vital within today’s legislative environment. Although legal compliance to the raft of occupational health and safety legislation may be sufficient, businesses with a company-wide commitment to managing the health and safety of their staff stand out from the competition. With various degrees of risks associated with businesses of different nature, a systemic top-down health and safety initiative is highly required to avoid things not to be bound to go wrong at some point, no matter how careful the employees.
