Assessment of Safety Equipment Utilization Rate and Magnitude of Occupational Related Incidences Among Workers in the Ministry of Defense Construction CMC Site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2018

Abstract

International labor organization or World Health Organization Joint Committee defined occupational health and safety as: “Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations. The prevention of workers in their working section from risks adverse to their health and placement of workers in an occupational environment adapted to their physiological and psychological capabilities are also the objectives of occupational health [1]. Occupational injury is a death, unintentional physical damage resulting from an occupational accident; it is fatal or non-fatal injury [2,3]. Occupational health services are available only to 10-15% of the 3 billion workers of the world. In industrialized countries, the coverage varies between 15 and 90% and in developing countries between a few percent and 20% [3-5].