ABSTRACT
Occupational health and safety relates to the physical, biological, chemical, mechanical, psychosocial, and organizational factors that impact directly or indirectly on human work environments. Developing countries contain 70 percent of the world’s population and experience the majority of global work-caused, work-related ill health and accidents. 2,600 million people were estimated to be in the global workforce in 1990s and 75 percent of these were in developing countries. In 1998, there were an estimated 250 million occupational injuries each year and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 217 million cases of occupational diseases worldwide.
