Introduction to
Key Terms:
Health: ILO OSH
Convention – C155:
The term health
in relation to work, indicates not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,
it also includes the physical and mental elements affecting health which are
directly related to safety and hygiene at work.
“A state of
wellbeing in both a physiological and psychological sense.
“Absence of
disease or ill health, physical ill-health as well as psychological ill-health
(condition of both body and mind), of all people at the workplace (employees,
contractors and visitors) and their protection from harm in the form of injury
or disease”.
WHO – 1946: A
state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the
absence of diseases and infirmity.
For example,
asbestos creates a health risk because if you inhale asbestos dust you may
contract lung cancer at some stage later in life (perhaps 20 or 30 years after
you inhaled the dust). Health relates not only to physical ill-health but also
to psychological ill-health (e.g. exposure to extreme stress can lead to acute
mental collapse or a ‘nervous breakdown’).
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