From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
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Standards that can be adopted
From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
Standards that can be adopted
- Slips, trips, and falls. It's such a big topic that it tends to be covered in a variety of standards, rules, regulations, and best practice documents. Let's talk about the difference between these things. Let's start with the term standards. So many organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, publish standards, right? These tend to be written in very declarative language, using words like must and shall, as opposed to words like should. Standards are meant to be a definitive set of rules that can be adopted and then followed in order to achieve a desired outcome. Some of the organizations that create standards are national or even worldwide organizations that create standards documents that are meant to be adopted on a broad scale. For example, the World Health Organization may set standards to limit disease transmission. In the context of this course, I get a great deal of information from a walking and…
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