The terms occupational health and health and safety are related but not the same in the United Kingdom. The main goals of health and safety are to reduce workplace accidents, injuries, and ill health by locating and reducing risks, putting control mechanisms in place, and encouraging safe work procedures.
Conversely, occupational health is the study of how well workers are both physically and mentally related to their jobs. This can involve identifying and controlling the hazards of illness linked to the job, offering health screening and medical monitoring, encouraging the health and wellbeing of employees, and helping those with health-related problems that could interfere with their capacity to work.
Although occupational health and health and safety frequently overlap, they handle various facets of workplace health and require separate knowledge and abilities to manage well.