Intro to OSH

Question 1

It is a is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work (i.e. while performing duties required by one’s occupation).

Answer 1

Occupational safety and health (OSH) or
occupational health and safety (OHS)

Question 2

What is occupational safety & health?

Answer 2

> Deals with the safety, welfare, and social well-
being of workers in all occupations.
Provides a safe working environment for staff.
Focuses on both physical and mental well-
being.
A legal and human responsibility.

Question 3

OSH PURPOSES

Answer 3

> ensuring the physical, mental, and social
well-being of workers.
Preventing the unfavorable effects on health caused by working conditions and becoming familiar with an occupational environment of the physical and mental needs of workers.
Performing reviews and
evaluations of work environments to promote safe conditions and compliance with national, state, and local
standards.

Question 4

OSH OBJECTIVES

Answer 4

a. Maintain the physical, mental and social well-being of workers.
b. Prevent the unfavorable effects on health caused by
working conditions.
c. Become familiar with the occupational environment of physical and mental needs of workers.
d. Consider the issues relating to industrial safety,
occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, training & education, psychology and so on.
e. Improve working conditions and the working
environment to become conducive to safety and health

Question 5

Importance of occupational safety and health?

Answer 5

• Reducing millions of injuries each year
• Protecting workers from serious injury
• Improving workplace productivity
• Ensuring better brand image, good business, and higher employee morale
• Addressing different types of workplace hazards and concerns such as chemicals and physical hazards, biological agents, psychological fallout, ergonomic issues, and accidents
• Preventing workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths, as well as the suffering and financial hardship these events can cause for workers, their families, and employers
• Using a proactive approach to managing workplace safety and health

Question 6

1903

Answer 6

development of OSH in the Philippines

Question 7

1908

Answer 7

> Employer’s Liability Act was instituted requiring employers to compensate workers who were injured while performing their job
Bureau of Labor was created

Question 8

1927

Answer 8

Workmen’s compensation Act No. 3428 was passed providing payment of damages by the employer for illness, in addition to injury or death due to employment

Question 9

1933

Answer 9

Bureau of Labor was named Department of Labor on Dec. 8,1933

Question 10

1936

Answer 10

Commonwealth Act No. 104 was passed. First legislation directly enjoining management to ensure the promotion of OSH in the workplace. Known as the First Industrial Safety Law.

Question 11

1945

Answer 11

Commonwealth Act No. 696 was approved to include safety in the installation and operation of boilers and pressure vessels

Question 12

1948

Answer 12

Philippines became a member of ILO

Question 13

1954

Answer 13

Enactment of RA No. 1054 (Free Emergency Medical & Dental Treatment Act)

Question 14

1957

Answer 14

Bureau of Labor Standards was created

Question 15

1959

Answer 15

SOPI was organized