OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

Article Analysis: Occupational Safety and Health

Article Analysis: Occupational Safety and Health

Introduction

This paper critically analyses the work of Judith Green-McKenzie and Edward Emmett on Occupational Health and Safety.

Occupational health and safety is the field pertaining to the health and safety of the workforce. This field has been of societal concern since ancient times. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus describes the treatment of injuries that were incurred by workers at the pyramid site in ancient Egypt (3000-2500 B.C.). Bernardino Ramazzini published the first Western textbook of occupational medicine in 1713. The pioneering work of Dr. Alice Hamilton in the 1920s ...