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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW4

Health and safety:4

What health and safety law requires9

Occupational Health and Safety9

Health and Safety Management (HSM):11

Occupational health and safety situations:12

International Standards and the Registration Debate27

Equipment safety:28

How are workers injured?32

Worker Psychology and Injury33

Basic Safety Program Elements see file 133

Total Quality Management:36

Relation TQ with HSM:38

TEAMS AND TEAM WORKING44

Media:48

BBC Channel:48

Health and Safety at BBC:49

Health and Safety Management system at BBC:50

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES52

WORKING WITH COMPUTERS AND MONITORS53

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)54

ELECTRICAL SAFETY55

Health and Safety Management system at ZDF:56

Relation between Media and Health and Safety Management:56

Risk Assessment:61

Chapter 2: Literature Review

Health and safety:

Today we talk of "health and safety at work" rather than "health, safety and working conditions" and under this heading various disciplines are grouped to eliminate or restrict certain harmful effects of human activities on the human being (health physical and mental) and its environment (environmental health). (Funtowicz, 2007, 14)

These concepts emerged relatively, recently in the field of labour law - the nineteenth century with the development of different industries that have gradually built around the labour law and have been implemented with the first measures of protection for workers that are the most vulnerable: women and children. (Boxman, 2006, 51-73)

Protecting the health of employees of private law (companies, associations, etc) and officials (public state or local authorities and hospitals), with the awareness of the public about risk, turned out to be a notion which has become inescapable. Every situation at work, more or less pronounced, can cause danger for the employees (employee, interim auto entrepreneur, intern or volunteer worker) (Berger, 2008, 479-508). To minimize these risks .i.e. reducing the likelihood and severity of violations that may occur to workers' health, many factors are involved within and outside the workplace.

Occupational health is a major ethical concern and one of the challenges of sustainable development. For example, according to a survey in United Kingdom produced in 2010, one-third of UK people neglected their well-being for the benefit of their work and struggle to juggle the various aspects of their life (work, family, friends and studies), especially those between the age of 30 and 50. (Beach, 2008, 10-24). Moreover, in a socio-economic push for ever greater productivity, 70 percent of assets believe that their condition has worsened at work, especially in regards to the level of stress (52%), and the workload (49%) published in 2010. Yet the Europeans consider that 60% look after their welfare would be "important", whereas 24% even as it "essential”. (Phelps, 2002, 29)

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