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Health and Safety in the Workplace: The Ultimate Talk

Occupational health and safety mean promoting and sustaining the highest grade of care of workers' physical, mental, and social wellbeing. It focuses on the prevention of absenteeism due to poor health brought on by working conditions.

Health and safety in the workplace promote well-being regarding comfort, happiness, and satisfaction and not just protecting people from illness and accidents. And it places severe responsibilities on employers.

Under the 1992 workplace regulations concerning health, safety, and welfare, employers have a legal obligation to ensure, to the extent possible, the health, safety, and wellbeing of employees is maintained on the job. 

Employers are responsible for protecting their employees' mental health and physical wellbeing. This includes work-related stress. There are online stress awareness & health courses for managers, supervisors, and employees, helping them identify and prevent the causes of work-related stress.

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