OHS and its Impact on the Society

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OHS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SOCIETY
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1OHS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SOCIETY
Executive Summary
The report “OHS and its Impact on The Society”, has focused on the historical development of
Occupational health and safety profession, and its impact on the world and society as a whole.
The report has emphasized the need for the development of the Occupational Health and Safety
profession. The impact of injuries, hazards, and disease due to occupation has been discussed in
detail. The fatalities caused due to prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals enlisted by the World
Health Organization and the International Labor Organization has been discussed thoroughly.
The report primarily establishes a relation between the improvement of the society and
organization as a whole and the involvement of Occupational Health and Safety professional’s
contribution to sustainable economic stability.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Historical development of OHS.......................................................................................................3
i) Historical Development of Occupational Health Safety Profession.....................................3
ii) Importance of OHS profession.........................................................................................4
OHS Professional Practice...............................................................................................................6
i) Essential Elements of OHS practice.....................................................................................6
ii) OHS Professionals on Reducing Occupational Injuries Diseases, its Impact...................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
In the growing age of industrialization and globalization, the need for manual workforce
has increased in all the sectors of life. Since then, society has gradually transformed from the
agrarian socio-economic culture to industrial socio-economic culture. The increase of industrial
workers has given a boost to economic growth as well as increase the consumerism of the
products worldwide. But, along with the economic boost to a nation or a society, the effect of
industrialization has also increased the occupational health hazards amongst the industrial
workers in an organization or company, which has brought prolonged lifetime illness, injury and
in some cases caused terminating diseases. For instance, the development of hearing loss
amongst the workers. To understand this and combat the occupational health hazards, diseases
and illness, Occupational Health and Safety protocols have erupted and along with that the need
for health safety professionals have also escalated worldwide. Hence, the prime motive of this
report to understand and analyze the historical development of Occupational Health and Safety
profession and how the Occupational Health Safety workers aim to reduce the health hazard
related to the occupation bring the difference and in the society in general.
Discussion
Historical development of OHS
i) Historical Development of Occupational Health Safety Profession
Occupational Health Safety and the profession associated with it is comparatively a new
with respect to other professions. As the industrialization developed in the early 18th century and
the agricultural employment had gradually declined there was a shift or a transition phase in the
type of job or profession people took. The industries especially the machine industries opened