Occupational safety is a key element of social responsibility. Definition of safety is freedom from injury and danger, quality or insuring against hurt, danger of risk (Ariss, 2003). Safety defined as liberation from risk, injury and danger. In addition, safety can also be the manifestation of “caution” in order to avoid danger (Ramesh Kumar, 2012) [30]. OSH is a multidisciplinary field that requires collaboration between individual people and organizations with different expertise and functions for its goals to be achieved (Laxman, 2007).
Despite a serious decline in industrial accidents each year, accidents which caused loss of lives and disability are at a serious level. Possibly this situation occur due to some weaknesses in the safety and health management system. To overcome this problem, there are two aspects that should be highlighted, legislative and non-legislative (Kadir Arifin, 2013). According to Frick and Wren (2000: 19), systematic OHS management ‘aims to identify sources of injury and ill health early in the production process and to produce countermeasures before injury or ill health occurs (Michael Zanko, 2012). According to Sari (2009),
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Following the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1994, various programmes have been implemented by different agencies to increase awareness and knowledge of OSH in the workplace, including among healthcare workers.(Lugah,2010). Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is a discipline dealing with the prevention of work related injuries and diseases, and the protection and promotion of the health of workers.(Taderera,2012). Consistent with the OSH policy and based on the initial or subsequent reviews, measurable OSH objectives should be established, which are specific to the organization, and appropriate to and according to its size and nature of