10 Facts About Occupational health

Goal of an occupational safety and health program is to foster a safe and healthy occupational environment.

Those in the field of occupational health come from a wide range of disciplines and professions including medicine, psychology, epidemiology, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, occupational medicine, human factors and ergonomics, and many others.

Occupational health hearing loss is the most common work-related injury in the United States, with 22 million workers exposed to hazardous noise levels at work and an estimated $242 million spent annually on worker's compensation for hearing loss disability.

Specialists from the Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health analyzed information about the health status of workers and the assessment of their working conditions using the new methods of risk assessment.

Occupational safety and health practice vary among nations with different approaches to legislation, regulation, enforcement, and incentives for compliance.

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In Denmark, occupational safety and health is regulated by the Danish Act on Working Environment and cooperation at the workplace.

Apart from the direct laws directed to safety and Occupational health in working environments, the private domain has added Occupational health and safety rules in Working Conditions Policies, which are specified per industry.

In Spain, occupational safety and health is regulated by the Spanish Act on Prevention of Labour Risks.

UK, the government organisation dealing with occupational health has been the Employment Medical Advisory Service but in 2014 a new occupational health organisation – the Health and Work Service – was created to provide advice and assistance to employers in order to get back to work employees on long-term sick-leave.

Similar to the findings of the ENHSPO survey conducted in Australia, the Institute of Occupational health Medicine in the UK found that there is a need to put greater emphasis on work-related illness in the UK.