health and safety standards
Occupational protection requirements
Health and safety standards are regulations and guidelines designed to protect people from harm in workplaces, public spaces, or products.
They cover everything from protective equipment requirements to building codes to food handling practices.
Organizations must typically comply with standards set by government agencies: The restaurant failed to meet health and safety standards.
Industries often develop their own standards beyond legal minimums.
- wash your handsRemove germs with soap
- OSHAFederal workplace safety regulator
- risk mitigationReducing exposure to threats
- ergonomicsStudy of work efficiency
- emergency protocolsPredetermined crisis response procedures
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Removing governmental business restrictions
self-regulation · no rules · lawlessness · non-compliance · code violations
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Mistreating employees for profit
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Reducing effort improperly
cost-cutting · short-term thinking · penny-pinching · willful blindness · race to the bottom
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