Since mankind works ranging from antiquity to meet the needs of everyday life, many of those who have suffered injury, injury, illness and so on. Such experiences have caused them to seek ways and means in order to prevent or reduce the occurrence of accidents at work. Approximately 1700 BC Babylonian kingdom has a king Hammurabi who pay great attention to safety and in the book of the law is written, among others:
“If a builder makes a house for someone and manufacture is not carried out properly so that the house was collapsed, the builder must be destroyed. And if the son of the house was a victim to death, then the builder’s son should be killed. If the owner of the house slave who became a victim to death, then he should be replaced, drawn from experts belonging to the building “.
This illustrates that there is a class of people who want to do a perilous, while giving the job is not trying to pay attention to the risks they face, instead they pay with cheap, although they themselves would not be willing to do the job. If we remember the human race since decreed by Almighty God always wants to be in a state of safe, healthy and happy and always beriktiar so physically and mentally to remain intact, functioning well and growing, then the problem of safety for human life will not be erased and will continue to evolve to follow the footsteps of the progress of engineering and technology.
Of the originally very primitive working to meet the needs of themselves, gradually evolving and getting to know how to work to produce something that can be marketed. During the work is still done by hand and is a home industry that is individual, prevention of accidents is not so difficult. Because they only need to repair equipment and how it works alone. Things are changing so fast immediately since the inception of the industrial revolution. The laws of nature are initially not recognized / understood gradually began to unfold and be studied carefully so that it becomes knowledge that can be applied practically.
Since then the industry started to grow very rapidly, diverse and increasingly versatile complicated. The original human effort just to meet their needs sufficiently with small industries like weaving cloth by hand, then with the new discoveries that began in the 18th century, built textile factories giant in many places, which continuously coupled with the discovery that one always followed by other new discoveries.
The industrial revolution began with the revolution of steam. Water can be used as a vapor by heating the road so that he has enormous power and can be used in many fields of industry. Simmering water in a tank that is slowly changed shape and became known new forms, called vapor pressure can reach hundreds atmosphere. The vapor has been shown to provide very many benefits to humans, but even then contain the steam boiler terrifying dangers. When a boiler exploded, blasting like a bomb that can memusahkan entire plant and its surroundings.
Furthermore, following the revolution of electricity and atomic energy revolution. All these new discoveries in the field of engineering and technology has consequences to mankind to immediately plan and implement workplace safety programs are more complicated for workers who are involved in the industrial process. The program will cover all aspects of workplace safety issue that requires skill, intelligence, skill, diligence in examining discuss and implement them.