The Association is a non-governmental, non-profitable organization formed in April 1967 in the City of Skopje by a group of enthusiasts, who believed in human character of the Occupational Safety. Many of them were leading people in those days in former Yugoslavia. In the year 1970 on the initiative of the Association 12 regional Associations constituted the Macedonian Alliance for Occupational Safety. In the year 1983 with decision by the Association, the Yugoslavian Alliance for Occupational Safety was formed.