Talk:Occupational health and safety

Proposed Merge

This article seems to be rather small and since there is a larger article focusing on Occupational Health & Safety in general, it would be better if OSHA were simply mentioned in that article rather than having its own. Of course, if someone can expand this article that exclusively discusses the law and not the issue of Occupational Safety, that would be a good alternative to merging.

Solarusdude 01:36, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

I think the subject should be left as it is, with a link to OSHA. Occupational health and safety or safety and health are temrs that are used throughout the world to describe the work done to reduce illness and injury to workforces.

Strongly oppose. One is a law, another is a principle. They're not the same thing. --Smack (talk) 03:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Oppose Dankru 06:33, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Oppose The topic area needs clarification but a simple merger is not sufficient. There is a simple definition and statement of principles relating to occupational safety and health (OSH), there is legislation relating to OSH, there are OSH institutions (OSHA in the US and EUR-OSHA in Europe, plus national bodies such as HSE in the UK), there are subtopics in OSH, such as risk assessment or safety culture. Also, in some countries such as UK (and I think Ireland), occupational safety and health can include protection of persons wider than "workers" (section 3, HSW Act 1974), i.e. protecting non-workers affected by a work situation (e.g. the public from construction activities) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Timtregenza (talk • contribs) 11:00, 5 January 2007 (UTC).