Safety, Health & Welfare

Date: 03/26/2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Credit: 2 Hours

COURSE INTRODUCTION & OUTLINE:

Ethics is at the heart of the engineering practice.!!

This Webinar will address occupational safety and health which is important for moral, legal, and financial reasons. In common-law jurisdictions, employers have a common law duty (reflecting an underlying moral obligation) to take reasonable care for the safety of their employees Statute law may build upon this to impose additional general duties, introduce specific duties and create government bodies with powers to regulate workplace safety issues: details of this will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Good OSH practices can also reduce employee injury and illness related costs, including medical care, sick leave and disability benefit costs.

The main focus in occupational health is on three different objectives: (i) the maintenance and promotion of workers’ health and working capacity; (ii) the improvement of working environment and work to become conducive to safety and health and (iii) development of work organizations and working cultures in a direction which supports health and safety at work and in doing so also promotes a positive social climate and smooth operation and may enhance productivity of the undertakings. The concept of working culture is intended in this context to mean a reflection of the essential value systems adopted by the undertaking concerned.

Course Number:  LWP032625
Field of Study: Health and Safety
Level: Basic
Presenter:
Ronald Finger
Prerequisites: 
None