Making decent work a reality: A systematic approach to improving occupational safety and health and

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Making decent work a reality A systematic
approach to improving occupational safety and
health and labour inspection

• Annie Rice,
• ILO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern
  Europe
• Strengthening social dialogue for improving OSH
  in South East Europe
• Budapest, Hungary,
• 28-29 June 2007

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The burden of work-related accidents and diseases

• 2.2 million deaths per year from occupational
  accidents and diseases
• 270 million workers suffer non-fatal injuries
• 160 million workers suffer short- or long-term
  illnesses from work-related causes
• 4 of worlds GDP lost to work-related accidents
  and diseases

Yet most work-related accidents and diseases are
preventable !
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Who is responsible?

• The worker?
• The employer?
• The manager?
• The government?
• The labour inspector?
• The safety and health professional?

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Many actors Different responsibilities Need
for a more INTEGRATED and PREVENTIVE approach
From PROTECTION to PREVENTION Systematic
action at national and enterprise level
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A systematic approach
Objective to PREVENT occupational accidents and
diseases
Modern legislation based on ILO and EU standards
Modern labour inspection services geared to
market economy
Individual responsibilities and social dialogue

• Review of legislation
• - drafting programs
• underway
• Risk-based insurance

• Integrated services
• Prevention-oriented
• Technically competent
• Professional
• Predictable and fair

• Capacity building for
• Employers OSH
• services/WISE
• TU participation in
• OSH committees
• Tripartite and bipartite
• dialogue

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ILO Promotional Framework for OSH Convention
(C.187), 2006
Promotes continuous improvement in OSH

• Policy national policy
• promoting a safe and
• healthy working environment
• System laws, regulations,
• information, advice, training
• education, collection of data
• National Programme
• with time-frames, priorities
• and means of action.

In a spirit of social dialogue
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National OSH Profile

• Summary of the OSH situation (such as accident
  data)
• Summary of OSH system status (the infrastructure)
• The OSH Profile can serve as
• A tool for developing the National OSH Programme
• Benchmarking information for reviewing national
  OSH systems and performance

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Steps for a National OSH Programme

• Tripartite decision to develop a National OSH
  Programme
• Preparation of the National OSH Profile
• Situational analysis
• Identification of priorities for national action
• Draft National Programme
• Establish coordinating mechanism for
  implementation of National Programme
• Mobilise resources
• High level endorsement and official launching
• Review and evaluation new Programme

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Further elements to support a systematic approach
to OSH

• Link National OSH Programme with other national
  programmes
• Develop labour inspection services
• Promote a national preventive OSH culture
• Establish OSH awareness campaigns
• Promote the business case for OSH
• Promote OSH management systems, such as ILO-OSH
  2001
• Education, training and information
• Social dialogue
• International exchange of information

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Development of modern labour inspection services

• Integration of responsibilities one site, one
  inspector
• Prevention-oriented services advice backed up
  with sanctions
• Technically-competent inspectors
• Use of professional procedures for targeting
  enterprises
• Inspections to be predictable, fair and
  equitable, with sufficiently deterrent sanctions

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National preventive OSH culture

• Increase general awareness, knowledge and
  understanding of hazards and risks
• Develop practices that contribute to prevention
  and reduction of risks
• Promote general safety consciousness through
  campaigns (ILO World Day, EU Week for Safety and
  Health at Work)
• Encourage strong leadership and commitment

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ILO Guidelines on OSH Management Systems (ILO-OSH
2001)

• Systematic tool to help protect workers from
  hazards
• Reduces occupational accidents and work-related
  illnesses
• Five key steps
• Policy
• Organising
• Planning and implementation
• Evaluation
• Action for improvement

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Promoting the business case for OSH

• Safety pays! Benefits include
• Reduced absenteeism
• Improved productivity
• Savings through better plant maintenance
• Corporate image improved
• Higher worker morale, motivation and
  concentration at work
• Improved worker retention

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Social dialogue and effective management of OSH

• Effective OSH improvements require the active,
  constructive and continued participation of
  employers and workers and their organisations
• Laws provide clear system of regulations,
  additional arrangements subject to agreement
  between the social partners
• Tripartite social dialogue
• National (NCOSH, Funds), sectoral
• Collaboration within the enterprise
• Joint management/worker OSH committees

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Conclusions what can working together to
improve safety and health mean?

• Workers remain employable
• Employers retain productivity and competitiveness
• Governments reduce costs of health care and
  employment injury benefits
• New role for labour inspectors
• Increased participation of OSH representatives
• Improved participation of OSH services

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Thank you for your attention!
Annie Rice, Senior Specialist for OSH ILO
Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern
Europe, Mozsár utca 14, 1066 Budapest,
Hungary Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
83 E-mail rice_at_ilo.org http//www.ilo-ceet.hu