Occupational health - A manual for primary health care workers

Overview

A healthy workforce is vital for sustainable social and economic development on a global, national and local level. The classic approach to ensuring health and safety in the workplace has depended mainly on the enactment of legislation and inspection of workplace to ensure compliance with health and safety standards.

While the approach has been effective in controlling many specific occupational hazards since the Industrial Revolution, it has not been very effective in the past several decades, particularly in developing countries, for several reasons.