OSH's Priorities for Occupational Health

摘要

People engaged in providing for workplace health and safety face a difficult task. These difficulties are similar to those which have always faced people - and are to do with the complexity of the topic, the frequent obscurity and unpredictability of causation, the infrequency and unpredictability of some types of mishaps and occupational diseases, the legal manner of addressing the issue (which is hard to understand but clearly has its foundation in humanity), the tendency of all parties to shift responsibility to other groups and individuals, the lack of societal acknowledgement as to its role as a causative agent and a low level of available resources. Against this backgound there are the very real possibilities for harm and serious harm posed by hazards that do not sleep or otherwise accommodate human frailty.