Occupational Injury Protection for Employees.

Abstract

This article explains the causes of occupational injuries, the nature of the injury from work, the impact of occupational injury, practices in the prevention of occupational injuries and measures for prevention and control of occupational hazards. To be used as a guideline for the prevention of occupational injuries for employers and workplace workers. An occupational injury is an accident that occurs during working time. It includes unsafe working conditions and acts which could delay and interrupts the working operations. This impacts both direct and indirect losses, including physical, emotion and family, as well as the economic and social loss of the country. Therefore, the workers must have a deep understanding of the rules to prevent injuries at work, involving in the execution of rules or regulations at their workplace. These reasons are the important factors that employees and employers should strictly execute to reduce injury or mortality rates. In addition, establishing workplace safety behaviors is also an important factor in reducing occupational injuries. In which everyone in the establishment must jointly implement the goals that are set to result in a sustainable safety behaviors.