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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.

Compliance and Regulatory

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.

What the standards actually require on occupational health and safety

Requirements naming occupational health and safety across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Article 7 of ILO Convention C149 establishes the obligation to take measures to improve existing laws and regulations on occupational health and safety by adapting them to the special nature of nursing work and of the environment in which it is carried out.

ILO-C149-Art7-OSH-OccupationalHealth-PPE-Violence-Harassment-Psychosocial · ILO C149 Article 7 - Adapting Occupational Health and Safety Laws to Nursing + PPE + Workplace Violence + Harassment + Psychosocial + Needlestick + Infection Prevention + Burnout
GRI Standards1 control

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))

Category 5 - the right to a safe and healthy working environment - added to the Declaration on 10 June 2022 at the 110th International Labour Conference, recognising occupational safety and health (OSH) as a fundamental right alongside the other four categorie...

ILO-FPRW-Cat5-OSH-SafeHealthyEnvironment-C155-C187-2022Amendment · ILO Fundamental Category 5 - Safe and Healthy Working Environment (C155 + C187) + 2022 Amendment Adding OSH as Fundamental Right

Adhere to OECD MNE Guidelines Chapter V (Employment and Industrial Relations) aligned with ILO standards. MNEs should within the framework of applicable law + regulations + and prevailing labour relations and employment practices and applicable international l...

OECDMNE-4 · Employment and Industrial Relations: Labour Rights and Working Conditions

Occupational health and safety and governance risk assessment requirements at the facility level

RMI-SEG-3 · OHS and Governance

Questions people ask about 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.
Why is Occupational Health and Safety important for compliance?
Occupational Health and Safety is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding occupational health and safety helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Occupational Health and Safety?
Occupational Health and Safety appears in the requirement text of ILO Nursing Personnel Convention C149 (1977), GRI Standards, German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG), ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (Core Conventions), OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct (2023 Update). Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Occupational Health and Safety?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how occupational health and safety applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Occupational Health and Safety applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.