Propagating Occupational Safety and Health Programmes among Small Scalefarmers and Entrepreneursin Essential Oils Industry

The production of essential oils as the end product entails the phases of planting, harvesting, production and marketing. Small scale farmers engage herein the field of essential oils industry is concern with planting, marketing what they produce or agricultural services while entrepreneurs are concern in the production and marketing of essential oils. Workers at the workplace faced a variety of hazards for instance chemical hazards, biological hazards, ergonomic hazards, psychosocial hazards and physical hazards. The outcome is work related accidents and occupational diseases at the workplace. Thus, this paper will look into hazards at the workplace and propagate the importance of cultivating the culture of safety, health and welfare of persons at workplace vis-?-vis the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994.