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Posted By Lee Mac
Hi All,
I have gone through umpteen books and sites but I still cannot find a couple of hard hitting definitions- one for safety and one for health.
Can anyone out there provide any hard hitters and if you can provide any sources it would help for future reference.
Thanks,
LEE
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Posted By Richard Paul-Jones
Health: Soundness of body. Having complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
Safety: Freedom from danger, risk or threat. Being protected, prudent and trustworthy.
Boring but true. Hard hitting? Probably not.
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Posted By Derek Pratt
For safety, I would use 'acceptable risk, of injury, loss, etc.'. This acknowledges that there is risk in every activity, and someone has to make a judgement.
Derek
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Posted By Aidan Toner
This subject gets me all vocal and irked.I think as professionals we get caught up in endless, mindless, numbing disussions about nothing more than the actual meaning of safety terms.
Sadly everyone WANTS to attribute their own meaning to a word or safety phrase (For example-just try to use the phrase method statement-you will find it generates a world of unnecessary debate about what is,might be or should be a method statement !!!)
Doctors,engineers,lawyers have all attributed fixed meaning to the 'everyday working' terms they use.
Why oh why dont we in IOSH commence the professional process of building a professional language we can all use without ambiguity.Lets use a constructed language to explore ideas and issues rather than just MORE LANGUAGE.
Sorry Lee if I got away from your original thread!!!
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Posted By Lee Mac
Thanks Lads,
Your help was appreciated.
Aiden, I agree with your sentiments, however, that was why I was looking for sources as well as the quote- the reason being I have a workshop tomorrow with a group of lads and I want them to fully appreciate that Health and Safety are 2 issues rather than the usual elf 'n safety.
Thanks,
Lee
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