"Occupational health should aim at: the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations; the prevention amongst workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; the placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities; and, to summarize, the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job.
== Definicija ==Že od leta 1950 imata Mednarodna organizacija dela (MOD, ILO) in Svetovna zdravstvena organizacija (SZO, WHO) skupno opredelitev zdravja pri delu.