According to Dan Petersen (1971) that before the year 1911 about workplace safety in the industry almost tida attention. Workers are not protected by law. No accidents to workers' compensation. In the event of an accident, the company considers that the accident:
- Caused by the fault of labor (employees) itself.
- Due to a co-worker so that he (the workers) have an accident
- Dependents of workers, because they think the company is already felt to pay (pay) the risk of accidents to workers' dependents.
- Because the worker suffered neglect, resulting in an accident.
New in 1908 in New York, is the first compensation for workers who have an accident.Then after 1911, according to Dan Petersen (1971) that workers are compensated for Work Due to Illness (PAK) if caused due to heat (atmosphere) and heat in the industry should be given a protective (safety). Thus the labor force began to gain legal protection.
Lots of work accidents causing casualties, material damage and disruption of production at a company. In the world, an average of 6,000 people died as a result of workplace accidents or occupational diseases every day. A total of more than 2.2 million work-related deaths each year. Approximately 350,000 worker deaths from accidents at work and more than 1.7 million came from exposure to occupational diseases (ILO, 2005:1).
Based on data from Ministry, by 2008 there were 11 277 cases of occupational accidents in enterprises. Later in the year 2009 there were 10 034 occupational accidents in Indonesia (Ministry of Manpower, 2010). The number of occupational accidents in the company based on Social Security, reaching 70 079 cases in 2010. In 2007, there were 65 474 accidents resulting in 1451 dead, 5326 injured people. The accident data covers all firms that are members of Social Security by the number of participants of about seven million people or about 10% of all workers in Indonesia.From 2006 to 2010, the number of cases of occupational accidents occurring within the company there are as many as 347 056. As such, the number of accidents reached 940 events for each worker 100.00 per year. In fact, according to research by the World Economic Forum in 2006, the death rate from accidents in Indonesia reached 17-18 to 100,000 workers (Soehatman Ramli, 2010:1).
Safety is a primary means for the prevention of accidents, disability and death as a result of workplace accidents. labor protection usually covers a wide range of aspects of a fairly large, namely the protection of safety, health, maintenance of morale and treatment in accordance with human dignity and moral religion. Is intended that the protection of labor can safely perform the work thereby increasing productivity.
Workforce should get protection from all sorts of problems around and to himself so as to interfere in the performance of his job. It is clear that job security is important in terms of manpower, because of that enterprise managers are required to provide support in the implementation process of media production, so employees can work comfortably and safely.
Health is defined as a specialization according sumakmur health science and its practice in order that the health of workers earn the highest possible physical, mental, social, curative to preventive measures against diseases / health problems due to work and work environment factors.
Another definition according to the Ministry of Health, 2003, occupational health is the branch of medical science that studies about the techniques, methods and harmonizing efforts between work load, work capacity and work environment.
To minimize losses, better preventive actions (preventive) rather than make repairs after an accident (incident or accident). What does that mean we work hard if we become unhealthy and wretched? Instead we work hard to make ends meet so that we become prosperous and prosperous life.
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