Abstract

Occupational Health Hazards and Safety

Author(s): Cheng Han

Occupational health and safety (OHS) is commonly referred to as occupational health, or occupational safety, and is a multidisciplinary field that is concerned with the health, safety, and welfare of people across all occupations. Due to the high number of accidents and exposure agents that occur in all kinds of workplaces and the consequences, this has for workers organizations society, and countries; occupational safety and health have become a very important issue for stakeholders to take care of the human resources. Occupational health and safety is a specialized branch of medicine that focuses on the physical and mental wellbeing of the employees in the workplace.