SAFETY AND HEALTH; THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

What safety and health means to all of us? Some people regard safety as being safe. Safety and health, according to World Health Organization refer to as “A STATE OF BEING COMPLETE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND WELL-BEING”. What about healthy? Different people have different meaning towards another. Some say it is being healthy, others might say an absence of sickness and diseases. Whatever it is, safety and health is concern about everything; about us as human being that inhabit this world and operate it, about the environment that everyday exposed to pollution, and also properties that we used to live in or work at.

Properties, human and environment, 3 important part that link to each and another when it comes to safety and health. Since the past is to be look upon or to be revised for the context of tomorrow, let’s get started with safety and health from the past. During an era of Roman and Egypt civilization, injury workers only get treatment for the purpose to restore their injuries. No further action taken to prevent such accident from recurrent.

Safety and health movement started with the introduction of Industrial Revolution. During this era, the world witnessed a transition from agriculture and subsistence sector to industrial sector. Introduction of new machinery, chemicals and work procedure create new hazard at the place of work and its surrounding. In response to these problems, several regulations have been introduced to protect people. Protecting people and properties are the only concern that period of time, ignoring the importance of protecting the environment that we live in. As for today, safety and health are looked into from vast prospective, protecting properties, people and environment. Environment is one key issue in today’s world of safety and health. Scope of safety and health are viewed in a more comprehensive way so that all problems are not overlooked. This is safety and health trend today, concerning in protecting people, environment and properties as well.

In the future, environment is one of the major concerns. Daily activities, from major to minor activities contribute to a mass destruction of our ecological system such as coking, smoking, driving, plant activities and also illegal disposal of toxic chemicals. It is hope that protecting people started from protecting the environment. It should start with individual’s participation. When individual have no sense of awareness in protecting the environment, no matter how many effort done by the government, such as proper disposal of waste material, rules and regulation implemented, it seems to be useless. If in the past and today, safety and health started from protecting people, environment and property, in the near future, safety and health started from protecting an environment for the purpose of protecting inhabitant at large and so that human being can live, work and do all activities in a safe and healthy environment.