Public Health, Occupational Health and Epidemiology Conference

OSH stands for Occupational Safety and Health and its main responsibilities are to prevent workplace accidents and health risks while enforcing employer’s safety liability throughout different industries. OSH in its simplified form involves evaluating potential hazards making protective modifications and ensuring the promotion of physical and psychological health. This field covers almost all possible hazards including mechanical and physical, including accidents in operating machinery and contact with chemicals, and psychosocial hazards, including stress and workplace bullying.

In today’s world, OSH practices are applying more advanced technology gadgets in identifying and tracking how real hazards are unfolding. For example, wearable sensors are being used to monitor the exposure of employees to adverse conditions; real-time alerts are thereafter issued with remedies for the conditions determined. Ergonomic solutions are also changing intending to decrease the repetitive strain injury occurrence and enhance the organization of the workspace layout for maximal safety.

International normative frameworks such as ISO 45001 provide the framework for systematic OSH management to guide organizations in developing organizational systems toward compliance and sustainable enhancement. These standards are greatly helpful in today’s global economy where MNEs are faced with various rules and regulations of different jurisdictions. OSHIO goes further than just the physical well-being of workers and their safety; it also includes the mental state and optimum productivity of workers, due to the understanding that cases of stress or burnout greatly affect this aspect of their lives.

OSH’s future is about constant evolution as new types of work organizations appear, including hybrid and remote, with new risks in them. Thus, organizations will be able to protect their employees, enhance productivity, and assist in contributing towards a healthier society through investing in education, promoting an organization's safety culture, and always updating the organization and its employees with existing and emerging hazards.