occupational safety
Job hazard prevention
Occupational safety encompasses the practices, regulations, and conditions that protect workers from injury, illness, and death on the job.
It covers everything from hard hats on construction sites to ergonomic chairs in offices to ventilation in factories.
In the United States, OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) sets and enforces standards: The company was fined for occupational safety violations.
The field balances worker protection against practical and economic constraints.
- workplace inspectionsFormal examinations of job sites
- OSHA complianceMeeting workplace safety standards
- chemical exposureContact with harmful substances
- evacuation plansOrganized emergency exit protocols
- danger zoneHigh-risk location
lockout/tagout · ergonomics · evacuation drills · work stoppage · CPR training · risk assessment · confined spaces · electrical hazards · PPE requirements · hazard prevention · near miss · noise pollution · ventilation systems · goggles · gloves · guardrail · slip and fall · helmet
- safetyhazard, airbag, alert, danger, seatbelt
- labor lawlabor code, labor law, labor laws, labor standards, labour law
- workplace safetyPPE, goggles, trip hazard, slip hazard, masks
- Health Activismhealth policy, health equity, healthcare access, patient rights, public health campaigns
- health lawshealth law, Obamacare, health standards, health regulations, healthcare mandates
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, labor movement, CIO, laborers
occupational safetyoccupational hazard
Danger specific to one's profession
industrial hazard · workplace injury · industrial accident · work-related injury · occupational risk
occupational safetyworker exploitation
Mistreating employees for profit
labor exploitation · OSHA violation · deregulation · workers' compensation