Occupational safety and health ethics

The major factors affecting ethics related to safety and health are character and culture. If safety and health are not values within the company culture then a safety and health professional with all the character in the world cannot be effective. Safety and health must have support within the company then a safety and health professional can do what is right. This means that he or she must ask himself or herself the following trite questions  

If you can answer these question positively, then do what is right. This means that safety and health professionals must 

Really care about the welfare of everyone it will show Treat everyone and all aspects of safety and health equally 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT A PRACTICAL APPROACH 

Take all concerns of employees seriously and respond in a timely and professional manner Try to avoid the gray areas concerning values and expectations 

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