Occupational Health and Safety
What is Occupational Health and Safety?
Standards and regulations requiring employers to provide safe working conditions and protect workers from health hazards in the workplace.
Terms that appear alongside occupational health and safety
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as occupational health and safety. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk assessment 3 shared controls
- policy 3 shared controls
- governance 2 shared controls
- emergency response 2 shared controls
- compliance 2 shared controls
- management system 2 shared controls
- iso 45001 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern occupational health and safety
What the standards actually require on occupational health and safety
Requirements naming occupational health and safety across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Construction and decommissioning sites control the hazards that are common there. Over-exertion and ergonomic injury are managed by training in lifting and materials handling;
world-bank-group-general-ehs-guidelines::4.2 · 4.2 Construction and decommissioning: occupational health and safety →Where a member of the DWG agrees, the employer must allow the HSR to be present at any interview about occupational health and safety that the member has with an inspector, or with the employer or someone representing the employer.
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-act-2004::s69-1-b · s 69(1)(b) Let the HSR attend interviews with DWG members on consent →An employer must ensure that each person employed to do construction work receives occupational health and safety training about the particular workplace where the construction work will be done.
victoria-occupational-health-and-safety-regulations-2017::r330 · r 330 Provide site-specific OHS training →GRI 200 + 300 + 400 series Topic Standards. GRI 200 ECONOMIC: (a) GRI 201 Economic Performance - direct economic value generated + climate-change financial implications + defined benefit plans + government financial assistance;
GRI-200-300-400-TopicStandards-33Total · GRI Topic Standards - 200 Economic + 300 Environmental + 400 Social (33 Total) →LkSG Section 2(2)-(3) - protected human rights + environmental risks. PROTECTED HUMAN RIGHTS (Sec.2(2) - 11 categories): (1) PROHIBITION OF CHILD LABOUR;
LkSG-HumanRights-Environmental-Risks · Protected Human Rights + Environmental Risks (Sections 2(2)-(3)) →Medical data should be collected only in line with national law, medical confidentiality and occupational health and safety principles, and only to judge fitness for a particular job, to meet health and safety requirements, and to decide entitlement to and gra...
ilo-code-of-practice-on-the-protection-of-workers-personal-data-1997::6.7 · 6.7 Medical data only as needed and lawful →Questions people ask about occupational health and safety
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