What Do You Call a Program or Policy Intended to Reduce Injuries in YOUR Workplace?

摘要

The occupational safety and health community uses various names to describe systematic approaches for reducing injuries and illnesses in the workplace. Consensus and international standards use the term Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems; and others use Safety and Health Programs to describe these types of systems. Regardless of the title, they all systematically address workplace safety and health hazards on an ongoing basis to reduce the extent and severity of work-related injuriesand illnesses. OSHA has chosen the term "Injury and Illness Prevention Program," or IIPP, to describe the aforementioned, and promulgating a rule that prescribes such a program in American workplaces has become one of their chief pursuits. The federal agency already requires companies in its voluntary VPP and SHARP programs to implement an IIPP. OSHA placed IIPP in the "pre-rule stage" in its fall 2011 unified agenda. That likely means that a rule from federal OSHA is years away.