Occupational health has been defined as ‘enabling people to undertake their occupation in the way that causes least harm to their health’. But according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) this is too narrow, because health means much more: “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Occupational health has been defined as ‘enabling people to undertake their occupation in the way that causes least harm to their health’. But according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) this is too narrow, because health means much more: “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”