Occupational health and safety continues to be a fundamental tenet of modern organizational practice, encompassing safeguarding and promoting wellbeing within the workforce as well as consideration of employees’ interaction with workplace environments. It is widely defined as the coordinated efforts and actions to protect and promote the health of workers by maintaining and improving the physical, mental, and social well-being of people at work in all occupations. Gradually, it has shifted from a risk-based reductionist view of the field to becoming an integrative paradigm encompassing health and healthy lifestyles, involving personal and professional dimensions. Within business education, the successful instruction of occupational health and safety relies on the ability of educators to pre-assess learners’ prior knowledge base; it also depends upon enriching learning opportunities through coherent content organization and pedagogical approaches that facilitate meaningful understanding. This drives the need to employ a variety of strategies direct, indirect and resource based in order to foster higher level thinking in students. Structured learning engagements and good teaching principles are also fundamental to effective learning activities. Given these factors, this study supports the need to embed OHSC into business education as a means of ensuring that students develop the requisite skill set for maintaining workplace standards in their careers. Thus, business education organizations are advised to institutionalize and enforce existing health and safety regulations including those proposed by the International Labour Organization in order to improve both staff and student welfare. Furthermore, awareness campaigns that can deepen stakeholders’ knowledge of workplace safety — its impact, benefits and consequences — should be conducted at regular intervals.