A growing number of countries are now giving higher priority to OSH and preventing accidents and ill health, in spite of the many pressures – economic and other – to cut back on such measures.There appear to be several reasons for this trend. Perhaps the most important one is that globally many more stakeholders – governments, employers, workers and other actors – now accept that the burden of occupational accidents and ill health is much greater than previously believed. While accurate figures for such occupational issues are still hard to obtain on a global scale, it is much more widely recognized today that occupational accidents and diseases can have a major impact on the productivity, competitiveness and reputation of individual enterprises, as well as on the livelihoods of individuals and their families. Moreover, at the national level, occupational accidents and ill health can engender an intolerable humanitarian and economic burden, damaging any reputation for good business and negatively impacting sustainable economic growth. In short, prevention pays.
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