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.
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 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
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