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Safety and Health Movement  Then and Now

Major Topics Developments before the Industrial Revolution. Milestones in the safety movement.   Tragedies  T ragedies that have changed the safety movement. Role of o f organied organi ed labor l abor.. Development of accident prevention programs. Development of Safety !rganiations. Safety and Health Movement Today. 

Safety Versus Health Safety is concerned with in"ury causing situations. Safety is concerned with haards to humans that result from sudden severe conditions. Health is concerned with disease causing conditions. Health deals with adverse reactions to prolonged e#posure to dangerous but less intense haards. $n overly stressed wor%er may be prone to unintentionally forget safety precautions and thus may cause an accident. 

Causes of Improvement in Workplace Safety Improvements in safety have been the result of pressure for legislation to promote safety and health& the steadily increasing cost associated with accidents and in"uries& and the professionaliation of safety as an occupation. Improvements in the future are li%ely to come as a result of greater awareness of the cost e'ectiveness and resultant competitiveness gained from a safe and healthy wor%force. 

Code of Hammurabi  The (ode of Hamurabi )*abylonian %ing in +,,, *.(.- contained clauses dealing with in"uries& allowable fees for physicians& and monetary damages assessed against those who in"ured others.

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If a man had caused the loss of a gentleman/s eye& his own eye shall be caused to be lost.0

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Development of the irst !r"ani#ed Safety $ro"ram 1hen the industrial sector began to grow in the 2nited States haardous wor%ing conditions were commonplace. 3actory inspection was introduced in Massachusetts in 4567. In 4586 the 9ennsylvania legislature passed a mine safety law that re:uired two e#its from all mines. In 456+& the ;rst recorded safety program was established in a