خلاقیت در بهداشت حرفه ای صنعتی برای توسعه پایدار Industrial occupational safety and health innovation for sustainable development

1. Introduction Modern economies are driven by agriculture, manufacturing and service industries. Regardless of the governing factors, national economic growth and development on the basis of weak Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) regulatory regime is an invitation for accident [30]. Yesterday, occupational safety and health was not the concern of all parties. But, nowadays, health and safety is becoming the key issues of global worries. In many studies, effective management of occupational safety and health found to play a pivotal role in running a successful business [21]. The global issue for sustainable development of the citizen is the health and safe working groups at their workplace. In order to achieve this, one of them is the development of sustainable occupational safety and health environments. Having this challenges, it is mandatory to answer the questions how workplace safety and health innovation results in sustainable development of citizens and forward the roads toward sustainable development in industrial occupational safety hand health. The dynamism of socio-economic development has brought change on all aspects of the expansion. Dynamical change on workplace health and safety innovation, high prevalence of occupational diseases and accidents registration are the initial factors of sustainable development. The existence of occupational safety and health problems is adding level of poverty onto existing burden of the society. There is a strong Malthusian movement which maintains that continued economic growth will disturb the balance of nature, and will eventually lead to ecological catastrophes [34]. This imbalance between innovation and development tends to result in failure in sustainable developments. As Zohreh and Napsiah [33] wrote in their research findings in summarizing that sustainable development and occupational safety, health, and environment are the two controversial concepts which have attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. They argue that sustainable development cannot be thought without considering environment, society, economy and their working condition. Hence, this research has attempted to asses OSH innovation in relation to sustainable development variables and their impact on each other. The other approach used is from the interview and observation made in some of Ethiopian manufacturing industries. The researcher used semi-structured interview question to justify the how industrial occupational safety and health innovation affects sustainable development of socio-economy. The result obtained showed us that workplace safety and health innovation has not been considered as a key driver of sustainable development. The companies have less consciousness about these issues. As it has been discussed in literature review, most of the companies’ focus on productivity improvement, technological build up and profit maximization of the industries than workplace safety and health innovation.