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SAFETY
Objectives
1.) By the end of this session, you will know the:
2.) Hazards associated with your workplace and best methods to control for them
3.) Key elements for well-functioning health and safety committees
4.) Basic legal requirements for health and safety in your workplace
Accdg. To the International Labor Organization (ILO 1975) occupational health
is a discipline that aims:
1.) To promote the best possible adjustment of man to his work and of work to
man
(ergonomics).
2.) To promote and preserve the health and working capacity of workers.
3 .) To promote the restoratiob of health and working capacity as soon as
possible after
injuries or diseases have occurred.
4.) To integrate occupational health into the industrial production
5.) To prevent departures from health caused by working conditions.
6.) To protect workers from risks resulting fron factors adverse to health.
7.) To place and maintain workers in an occupational environmenr adapted to
theurs physiological and psychological capacity.
OH should aim at the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of mental,
physical, emotional, and psychological health of workers (Joint ILO/WHO Committee on
OH, First Session in 1950.)
OH services should conform with the provisions of the Occupational Safety and
Health Legislation embodied in the Labor Code of the Philippines.
In OH service, the work environment plays a vital role in the prevention of disease and
injury, (as well as productivity.)
The composition of an OH services or an OH program:
1.) OH physicians, nurses, and other medical staff;
2.) safety, chemical, industrial, mechanical and other types of engineers;
3.) Industrial hygienists;
4.) record-keeping personnel;
5.) professionals (epidemiologists, environmentalists, sanitarians, toxicologist,
clinical psychologists, public health practioners, psychiatrist, social workers,
and sociologists.)