Abstract

This chapter is going to focus on the background to the study, statement of the problem, purpose of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, and scope of the study, significance of the study and structure of the report. 1.1 Background to the Study FLIPPO (1984), says that the modern safety movement is believed to have started around 1912 with the first cooperative safety congress and the organization of the National safety council. Just prior to this time in 1906, the Massachusetts Board of health and started the industrial health movement by appointing health officers to inspect factories, workshops, schools and tenements. The early movement was interested primarily in acquainting the general public with the fact that there existed in business a high incidence of industrially caused accidents and diseases. Occupational (work place) health refers to the status of the working population (free from illness or ailments) in relation to work and working condition at the work place. For many years, occupational health issues at work place have been associated with formal and large scale