Introduction

Like every other functional area in HR, Occupational Health, Safety, and Security (OHSS) has a wide-ranging impact on the day-to-day operations of the organization. This impact is real, direct, and important—even for those HR professionals who don't have formal responsibility for OHSS.

Productivity and performance can be derailed by health-related concerns, security breaches, or non-compliance with mandatory OHSS-related requirements. As such, OHSS issues are business issues…which means they are HR issues. As HR professionals, we must consider these issues from a proactive perspective, as well as from a reactive perspective. We must also recognize the specific ways in which an understanding of OHSS-related issues can bolster our ...

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