But what does it mean to be healthy? When is a workplace safe? When is it unsafe? It healthy is taken to mean a state of flawless physical and psychological well-being no one is perfectly healthy If safe means completely free from risk no workplace is perfectly safe If health and safety are interpreted as such impossible-to-realize ideals then it would be unreasonable to claim that employees have a right to a healthy and safe workplace employers cannot be responsible for providing an ideally safe and healthy workplace instead many discussions about employee health and safety will tend to focus on the relative risks faced by workers and the level of acceptable workplace risk from this perspective a workplace is safe if the risks are acceptable