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Will the world’s first ISO standard for OSH management achieve its aim of reducing  the 2.8 million deaths a year from work-related injuries and illness?

Globally, around 7,600 people die every day from a work-related disease or injury; a further 1 million people suffer a non-fatal illness or injury. It’s sobering that so many lives are blighted by largely preventable hazards at work – with many of these victims working in agriculture and industries producing food, goods and even services for consumption in countries like ours. The world’s first international standard for occupational safety and health (OSH) management, ISO 45001, launched in March, is designed to cut work injuries and ill health by introducing an OSH management framework applicable in any sector,

John Ballard, editor

Author: Ballard J

Tags death at work injuries at work occupational disease

Occupational Health at Work April/May 2018 (vol. 14/6) pp03

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