Health and safety at work is, for many managers, a difficult subject. Apart
from being steeped in the law, which can be difficult to interpret, it
requires a broad knowledge of many disciplines, such as psychology, engineering,
chemistry, ergonomics and medicine, each of which is a subject
of study in its own right.
Individual attitudes to health and safety, and indeed the corporate attitudes
of organisations, may vary substantially. Is health and safety just a
question of complying with the law? Should an organisation that likes to
think of itself as caring, promote health and safety as part of that caring
philosophy? Or should health and safety be seen as an important feature
of the business operation aimed at reducing the losses associated with
accidents, ill health, etc?

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