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The document discusses the need for a cohesive approach to occupational safety and health (OSH) to effectively prevent workplace accidents and diseases. It emphasizes the importance of integrating OSH into national and business plans, engaging stakeholders, and updating strategies to adapt to changing work environments. The Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006, outlines tools for managing OSH, including national policies and programs aimed at continuous improvement in safety and health standards.

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1-40) 27/06/2008 15:10 Page 25

GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR


OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
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Although effective legal and technical tools and measures to prevent


occupational accidents and diseases exist, national efforts to tackle OSH
problems are often fragmented and as a result have less impact. Such efforts
are also hampered by the inevitable time lag between changes in the world of
work or detection of new hazards and risks, and the development and imple-
mentation of appropriate responses. The traditional strategies and methods
for prevention and control need radical updating to respond effectively to the
fast and continuous changes in the workplace. In addition, there is a perpetual
need to train new generations of workers as they replace retiring ones.
Mechanisms and strategies must therefore be developed to keep occupational
safety and health continuously at the forefront of national and enterprise
priorities. This is a fundamental requirement for achieving and sustaining
decent working conditions and a decent working environment.
This can be done by raising the general awareness of the importance of
occupational safety and health in social and economic contexts, and integrat-
ing it as a priority element in national and business plans. It is also important
to engage all social partners and stakeholders in initiating and sustaining
mechanisms for a continued improvement of national OSH systems. The
ultimate goal is that the application of principles to protect safety and health by
prevention and control of hazards becomes an integral part of working culture
and indeed of all social and economic processes. In order to be successful,
the development of appropriate responses must make use of the collective body
of knowledge, experience and good practice in this area and ensure that this
knowledge is kept up to date and disseminated efficiently though good
information and education systems. Dynamic management strategies need to
be developed and implemented to ensure the coherence, relevance and currency
of all the elements that make up a national OSH system.

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Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety

The Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health


Convention, 2006 (No. 187), and its accompanying Recommendation (No.
197) integrate the two fundamental pillars of the ILO’s global strategy to
improve safety and health in the world of work, namely the building and
maintenance of a national preventive safety and health culture, and the
application of a systems approach to the management of occupational safety
and health at both national and enterprise levels.
With the objective of promoting continuous improvement of
occupational safety and health to prevent occupational injuries, diseases and
death, the Convention provides for the development, establishment and imple-
mentation of a number of tools for the sound management of occupational
safety and health, in consultation with the most representative organizations of
employers and workers, as well as other stakeholders engaged in the area of
occupational safety and health. These tools include:
• a national OSH policy, as defined in the Occupational Safety and Health
Convention (No. 155), 1981;
• a national OSH system; and
• a national OSH programme based on the elaboration and periodic
updating of a national OSH profile.
A conceptual diagram of a national OSH system, based on the provisions
of the ILO’s instruments on occupational safety and health, is shown in figure
2 at the end of Chapter 5.

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