Occupational Health and Safety

A healthy and safe work environment is the right of every worker and employers are charged with the responsibility of ensuring that these standards are met. Occupational Health and Safety or OH&S for short relates to the practices, procedures and tasks that organisations must enforce to comply with legislation and to ensure that they protect the health and welfare of their staff in the workplace.

Different types of businesses have different requirements. Building companies need to ensure that dangerous sites are signposted and that employees and contractors wear harnesses to protect them from a fall. In the office, a wet floor or poor fire protection policies might need to be addressed. In any case, every employer has a legal responsibility to ensure that OH&S practices and procedures are implemented and adhered to by everyone involved in the business. In work environments where hazardous chemicals, manual handling, loadshifting, heavy plant equipment or height are part of getting the job done OH&S is vital to avoid serious and sometimes fatal injuries.

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