Occupational Safety and Health Chapter 10

Twice as much

Early retirement, loss of skilled staff, absenteeism, production and quality losses, lower job satisfaction, high medical costs and insurance premiums

To avoid needless human suffering and economic losses

<p>It increases</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduced risks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ensuring that eliminating risks does not transfer them</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Manual handling, violence, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harder to achieve a healthy work-life balance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poor design of human-machine interaction interfaces, requiring high forces for operation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased trends, especially during global economic crises.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Risk factors associated with repetitive work, dealing with difficult customers, and lifting heavy loads.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Societal changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main objective of OSH is the prevention of work-related injuries and diseases as well as the protection and promotion of the health of workers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The directive obliges employers to take appropriate preventive measures to make work safer and healthier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Safety is traditionally seen as accident prevention, i.e. avoiding unwanted events from occurring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Safety can be viewed as resilience engineering, and accordingly, in case of unpredictable challenges, operations should be returned back to normal with only minimum damages incurred.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rapid and constant change of OSH risks due to changes in technology and working conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Safety needs to be improved all the time due to the continuously changing working life and working environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The prevention of occupational accidents and ill-health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The EU framework takes a broad approach on OSH, considering technical safety, as well as the general prevention of ill-health, including the organisation of work, working conditions, social relationships, and the influence of factors related to the working environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>15 to 24 years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their lack of experience and maturity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Employers must guarantee that the working conditions of young workers are appropriate for their age.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Due to their lack of experience and maturity, making them less aware of OSH policies and procedures or afraid to ask for help and advice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The improvement of the protection of the health and safety at work of self-employed workers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lack of time and money to pay for appropriate OSH training and safety equipment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The people they work with and members of the public.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make reference to pregnancy rights, family workers, and to harassment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The decline of permanent jobs and the increasing need for flexible employment contracts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person with a contract of employment or an employment relationship with a temporary agency with a view to being posted to a user undertaking to work temporarily under its supervision.</p> Signup and view all the answers