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Occupational safety and health (OSH) focuses on preventing workplace hazards and injuries through monitoring risks, training workers, and maintaining equipment. It aims to protect workers' rights and safety by encouraging employees and employers to jointly reduce hazards and monitor job-related illnesses and injuries. The primary goals of occupational health are maintaining workers' health and capacity, improving the working environment, and developing safe organizational cultures. Business owners and employers have legal responsibility to keep employees and others in the workspace safe from harm.

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Bosh Mid Term Answer

Occupational safety and health (OSH) focuses on preventing workplace hazards and injuries through monitoring risks, training workers, and maintaining equipment. It aims to protect workers' rights and safety by encouraging employees and employers to jointly reduce hazards and monitor job-related illnesses and injuries. The primary goals of occupational health are maintaining workers' health and capacity, improving the working environment, and developing safe organizational cultures. Business owners and employers have legal responsibility to keep employees and others in the workspace safe from harm.

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BOSH MID TERM ANSWER

1. Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) focuses heavily on primary prevention of hazards
and covers all areas of health and safety in the workplace. Its objective is to stop
accidents and injury caused by work-related activities.

2. It was established to protect workers' rights and safety. Its duties include encouraging
employees and employers to reduce workplace hazards, improving current safety, and
monitoring job-related injuries and illnesses.

3. The primary focus of occupational health is on three distinct goals: I maintaining and
promoting workers' health and working capacity; (ii) improving the working environment
and work to make it more conducive to safety and health; and (iii) developing work
organizations and working cultures.

4. Safety Engineer; Safety Consultant; Coordinator of Loss Control; Safety Manager; Risk
Manager.

5. Monitoring hazards and risks, Worker/staff training, Maintaining plant and equipment
and Risk assessments.

6. By recognizing and eliminating hazards, the risk of accidents or injuries is reduced.


Increased efficiency and productivity as a result of fewer employees missing work due to
illness or injury.

7. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSH Standards), as amended in 1989
serves as the country's central legislation in promoting a safe and healthy workplace for
all working people by protecting them against all hazards in their work environment.

8. With the RA 11058, employers are now required to comply with occupational safety and
health standards including informing workers on all types of hazards in the workplace
and having the right to refuse unsafe work, as well as providing facilities and personal
protective equipment for the workers, among others.

9. Business owners and employers hold the most responsibility when it comes to
workplace health and safety. They are legally required to keep their employees and
anyone who might be affected by their business safe from harm, including customers,
visitors to the workspace, temporary workers and contractors.
10. Industrial hygiene has been defined as “that science and art devoted to the anticipation,
recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in
or from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or
significant discomfort among workers or among the citizens of the community.”
Industrial hygienists use environmental monitoring and analytical methods to detect the
extent of worker exposure and employ engineering, work practice controls, and other
methods to control potential health hazards.

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