Workplace safety is a category of management responsibility in places of employment.
To ensure the safety and health of workers, managers establish a focus on safety that can include elements such as:
- management leadership and commitment
- employee engagement
- accountability
- ensuring all task are carried out safely and efficiently
- safety programs, policies, and plans
- safety processes, procedures, and practices
- safety goals and objectives
- safety inspections for workplace hazards
- safety program audits
- safety tracking & metrics
- hazard identification and control
- safety committees to promote employee involvement
- safety education and training
- safety communications to maintain a high level of awareness on safety
Workplace fatalities statistics
European Union
Data from 2003
In most countries males comprise the vast majority of workplace fatalities. In the EU as a whole, 94% of death were of males. In the UK the disparity was even greater with male comprising 97.4% of workplace deaths.
US Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor compiles information about workplace fatalities in the United States. Since 1992, the year with the most workplace fatalities was 1994 with 6,632 fatalities, and the lowest in 2002 with 5,534.
The Bureau also compiles information about the most dangerous jobs. The most recent information comes from the year 2006, during which 5,840 people died on the job.See also
- CCOHS
- Effective Safety Training
- Hearing conservation program
- Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute
- Material safety data sheet
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Occupational disease
- Occupational fatality
- Occupational health psychology
- Occupational safety and health
- OSHA
- Participatory Ergonomics
- Process Safety Management
- Safe-In-Sound Award Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award
- Safety
- Safety engineering
References
- ^ http://www.emhf.org/resource_images/Vienna_Declaration_Bgrd_Doc.pdf
- ^ http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/agegen1.htm
- ^ http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/agegen2.htm
External links
- OSH Answers
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
- History of Workplace Safety in the United States by Mark Aldrich of Smith College
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- National Safety Council
- New Zealand Department of Labor
- International Labour Organization
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health UK-based professional organization
- Forbes: Dangerous jobs
- CNN: Dangerous jobs
- National Association of Safety Professionals
- American Society of Safety Engineers
- Occupational Safety Training and Certification Alliance
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU)
- Healthy Workplace Initiative (new member states)
- Workplace Fatalities & the Aftermath United Support &
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