November: 2022 Theme: Occupational Safety Week: 1

Occupational Hygiene

Occupational hygiene is the discipline of protecting worker health, by controlling workplace

hazards that can cause harm. Thus, Occupational Hygiene practice assist in keeping workers
safe and healthy.

What are the advantages of practicing occupational hygiene?

• Protect worker health
• Protect the community at large
• Help evaluate the effectiveness of implemented measures to reduce hazards
• Identifies priority control areas to ensure a healthy workplace
• Occupational hygiene can prevent occupational diseases

Occupational hygiene is not only the

responsibility of the employer. The
employee as an equal obligation in
keeping the workplace safe by
following rules and procedures
provided by the employer to ensure
safe work.

Some typical hazard categories included in What can I do to ensure a safe working
occupational hygiene: environment?

• Ensure that all identified risk control

measures are in place
Air quality Radiation Temperature • Ensure that where applicable Health risk
Assessments and Hygiene Surveys are
done and valid

• Ensure that hygiene surveys’

recommendations are discussed and
Occupational Biological actioned accordingly
Ergonomics
disease hazards
• Ensure that responsibilities are clear for both
employer and employee

CREATING A SAFE WORKPLACE IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT