1.1. Moral Reasons:
Yes, there are moral reasons for Health and Safety, such as duty of reasonable care. This is a duty on an individual or organisation to take reasonable care of their actions and the potential side effects or consequences. Basically, one should not hurt or put others in danger with one’s own actions, especially at the workplace.
It is unacceptable to put the health and safety of people at risk especially for your own profit. A perfect example would be if a company is trying to save money by not installing safety guards on dangerous moving parts of machine. Or being careless about Asbestos exposure. As Society develops and changes, moral obligations and expectations change as well. 30 years ago, it was acceptable to expose people to high levels of noise. As a result of this, people developed chronic hearing problems which changed the attitude with regards of acceptable levels of noise.
Man Wielding Structure Factory Roof Construction site – High Risk Occupation
It is human tendency to feel sad when fellow being suffers injury/sickness, ill-health or death. Many people are injured / killed due to risks involved in their work activity. This is morally unacceptable and society as a whole demand that people should be safe when they are at work.
