Talk:Workplace safety

Merge from Dangerous jobs
I think that the contents of the Dangerous jobs page might make more sense as part of a larger workplace safety article. As it is, it's essentially just a list. Pburka 03:29, 22 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree, and since it's been a couple of months, I went ahead and merged it. Thanks for your suggestion. Sommers 19:05, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Different OSHA list of most dangerous
OSHA most dangerous jobs table

I work on broadcast towers, and the tower industry topped fishing as the most dangerous recently the link above is where I got my info. I think this needs to be updated but my editing skills are not up to the task. Could someone please do this?--Jake4d (talk) 09:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Merge with Occupational Safety and Health
Occupational Safety and Health is more commmonly used term on the web, amongst professionals and in the academia. As a matter of fact the topic of this article should have been workplace safety and health. It is the health consequence that safety seeks to address and health consequences like diseases, injuries and fatalities attributed to work remain the core element in the field of workplacce safet and health or occupational safety and health.

The tradition of occupational safety and health goes back to ancient times from hipppocrates to long before the industrial revolution wit Agricola and later Ramazzini who addressed issues of dangerous trades and their effects on workers.Industrial revolution led to passing of the first factories act in 1802 the goal was to prevent the social and health consequences of among other things child labour, long working hours and hygiene issues in the workplace. The modern concept of safety or workplace safety with its pletohora of models (swiss cheese, domino,FRAM etc ) are an product of the 20th century with evolution of mass production of cars, NASA missions, growth in the petroleum sector and development of nuclear reactors. The focus workplace sfaety seems to be somewhat skewed to accomadate production, productivity and deviation from production goals.

Preventing negative health consequences remains core to the field of workplace or occupational safety and health. There is a lot already of information on the occupational safety and health wikipedia page. I propose that this page be merged in to the occupational safety and health page.--Enfolkefiende (talk) 08:53, 8 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I've added merge banners to both articles. Barring any disagreement, I hope to move on this in the near future. Mxheil (talk) 14:22, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Selective paste merger? Tommy Pinball (talk) 20:57, 11 September 2012 (UTC)