International Conference on Primary Health Care held in Alma Ata in the former Soviet Union, this Declaration was signed by all participants. It “heralded a shift in power from the providers of health services to the consumers of those services and the wider community”26 and in noting that primary health care brought national health care “as close as possible to where people live and work”27 rather than only in hospitals, provided the right environment for the concepts of health promotion and occupational health and safety to develop and grow