Occupational safety is about creating a safe work environment, as well as an understanding, to facilitate the positive physical, mental, and social well-being of workers. A common de‘nition of occupational health was adopted by the Joint International Labor Organization and World Health Organization Committee on Occupational Health at its ‘rst session in 1950, and it was revised at its twelfth session in 1995. The original is as follows:

In an organization, occupational safety is important for moral, legal, and ‘nancial reasons. All organizations have a duty of care to ensure that employees and others who may be affected by the company’s undertakings remain safe at all times.Moral obligations involve the protection of employees’ lives and health. Legal reasons for occupational safety and health (OSH) practices relate to the preventative, punitive, and compensatory effects of laws that protect workers’ safety and health. OSH can also reduce employee injury-and illness-related costs, including medical care, sick leave, and disability bene‘t costs. Furthermore, the concept of a safe working culture is to create an understanding of the safety functions, which facilitates their diffusion and adoption by organizational staff. The safety culture is re¦ected in practice in organizational systems, policies, principles, training, and quality management.