Enhancing Occupational Health and Safety Standards in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Strategic Approach.

The purpose of this study is to describe the process for improving Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's occupational health and safety standards. To carry out the investigation, researchers employed a secondary data collection approach. It comprised interviews with quality assurance managers and health and safety executives who submitted reports to the department from six chosen secondary level hospitals, as well as an analysis carried out following the examination and analysis of reports, data, and other documents. The findings of this study indicate that the majority of Pakistan's workforce lacks occupational safety and health training and is illiterate. In Pakistan, there are much fewer occupational health doctors and nurses than there are workers overall. This indicates that the nation does not have a formalized system for occupational health. While the state of occupational safety and health (OSH) is typically improving in export-oriented businesses, most of these industries are ill-organized. The impact of a nation's labor force can be fully understood in the midst of an ongoing economic crisis, but even in growing nations like Pakistan, where economic progress is prioritized, circumstances for occupational health and safety remain appalling, as this review has shown. Not only are OHS regulations urgently needed to be strengthened, but methods for putting them into practice as well as increased OHS knowledge, training, and conditions across the nation must be established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]