In this graduate paper work injuries and accupational diseases was studied trough mulitple segments, from the definitions themselves and understanding of the difference between work injury and occupational illnes to the application process it self and the completion of the forms when obtaining information on the occurrence of work injury or occupational disease in the company that contacted us, to the measures to reduce the occurrence of injuries at work that are more frequent from professional illness and educating workers about the obligation to wear personal protective equipment. Since prevention of work injury or occupational diseases is one of the core tasks of our profession, I believe it is very important to know and understand based on existing injuries how to educate the workers themselves, but also remind ourselves how the routine jobs that an individual worker performs works in a manner prescribed by all the rules on occupational safety, as well as explained in the training of workers to work safely on the theoretical and practical part of the training.