Verdrag inzake het promotioneel kader voor de veiligheid en gezondheid op het werk

For the purpose of this Convention:
a) the term “national policy” refers to the national policy on occupational safety and health and the working environment developed in accordance with the principles of Article 4 of the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155);
b) the term “national system for occupational safety and health” or “national system” refers to the infrastructure which provides the main framework for implementing the national policy and national programmes on occupational safety and health;
c) the term “national programme on occupational safety and health” or “national programme” refers to any national programme that includes objectives to be achieved in a predetermined time frame, priorities and means of action formulated to improve occupational safety and health, and means to assess progress;
d) the term “a national preventative safety and health culture” refers to a culture in which the right to a safe and healthy working environment is respected at all levels, where government, employers and workers actively participate in securing a safe and healthy working environment through a system of defined rights, responsibilities and duties, and where the principle of prevention is accorded the highest priority.

1. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall promote continuous improvement of occupational safety and health to prevent occupational injuries, diseases and deaths, by the development, in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and workers, of a national policy, national system and national programme.
2. Each Member shall take active steps towards achieving progressively a safe and healthy working environment through a national system and national programmes on occupational safety and health by taking into account the principles set out in instruments of the International Labour Organization (ILO) relevant to the promotional framework for occupational safety and health.
3. Each Member, in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and workers, shall periodically consider what measures could be taken to ratify relevant occupational safety and health Conventions of the ILO.

1. Each Member shall promote a safe and healthy working environment by formulating a national policy.
2. Each Member shall promote and advance, at all relevant levels, the right of workers to a safe and healthy working environment.
3. In formulating its national policy, each Member, in light of national conditions and practice and in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and workers, shall promote basic principles such as assessing occupational risks or hazards; combating occupational risks or hazards at source; and developing a national preventative safety and health culture that includes information, consultation and training.

1. Each Member shall establish, maintain, progressively develop and periodically review a national system for occupational safety and health, in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and workers.
2. The national system for occupational safety and health shall include among others:
a) laws and regulations, collective agreements where appropriate, and any other relevant instruments on occupational safety and health;
b) an authority or body, or authorities or bodies, responsible for occupational safety and health, designated in accordance with national law and practice;
c) mechanisms for ensuring compliance with national laws and regulations, including systems of inspection; and
d) arrangements to promote, at the level of the undertaking, cooperation between management, workers and their representatives as an essential element of workplace-related prevention measures.
3. The national system for occupational safety and health shall include, where appropriate:
a) a national tripartite advisory body, or bodies, addressing occupational safety and health issues;
b) information and advisory services on occupational safety and health;
c) the provision of occupational safety and health training;
d) occupational health services in accordance with national law and practice;
e) research on occupational safety and health;
f) a mechanism for the collection and analysis of data on occupational injuries and diseases, taking into account relevant ILO instruments;
g) provisions for collaboration with relevant insurance or social security schemes covering occupational injuries and diseases; and
h) support mechanisms for a progressive improvement of occupational safety and health conditions in micro-enterprises, in small and medium-sized enterprises and in the informal economy.

1. Each Member shall formulate, implement, monitor, evaluate and periodically review a national programme on occupational safety and health in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and workers.
2. The national programme shall:
a) promote the development of a national preventative safety and health culture;
b) contribute to the protection of workers by eliminating or minimizing, so far as is reasonably practicable, work-related hazards and risks, in accordance with national law and practice, in order to prevent occupational injuries, diseases and deaths and promote safety and health in the workplace;
c) be formulated and reviewed on the basis of analysis of the national situation regarding occupational safety and health, including analysis of the national system for occupational safety and health;
d) include objectives, targets and indicators of progress; and
e) be supported, where possible, by other complementary national programmes and plans which will assist in achieving progressively a safe and healthy working environment.
3. The national programme shall be widely publicized and, to the extent possible, endorsed and launched by the highest national authorities.

This Convention does not revise any international labour Conventions or Recommendations.

The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration.

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General of the International Labour Office.
2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.
3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which its ratification is registered.

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention within the first year of each new period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations that have been communicated by the Members of the Organization.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration of the second ratification that has been communicated, the Director-General shall draw the attention of the Members of the Organization to the date upon which the Convention will come into force.

The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations full particulars of all ratifications and denunciations that have been registered.

At such times as it may consider necessary, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference a report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision.

1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this Convention, then, unless the new Convention otherwise provides:
a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising Convention shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 above, if and when the new revising Convention shall have come into force;
b) as from the date when the new revising Convention comes into force, this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the Members.
2. This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its actual form and content for those Members which have ratified it but have not ratified the revising Convention.

The English and French versions of the text of this Convention are equally authoritative.

1. The national policy formulated under Article 3 of the Convention should take into account Part II of the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155), as well as the relevant rights, duties and responsibilities of workers, employers and governments in that Convention.

2. In establishing, maintaining, progressively developing and periodically reviewing the national system for occupational safety and health defined in Article 1(b) of the Convention, Members:
a) should take into account the instruments of the International Labour Organization (ILO) relevant to the promotional framework for occupational safety and health listed in the Annex to this Recommendation, in particular the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155), the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) and the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129); and
b) may extend the consultations provided for in Article 4(1) of the Convention to other interested parties.
3. With a view to preventing occupational injuries, diseases and deaths, the national system should provide appropriate measures for the protection of all workers, in particular, workers in high-risk sectors, and vulnerable workers such as those in the informal economy and migrant and young workers.
4. Members should take measures to protect the safety and health of workers of both genders, including the protection of their reproductive health.
5. In promoting a national preventative safety and health culture as defined in Article 1(d) of the Convention, Members should seek:
a) to raise workplace and public awareness on occupational safety and health through national campaigns linked with, where appropriate, workplace and international initiatives;
b) to promote mechanisms for delivery of occupational safety and health education and training, in particular for management, supervisors, workers and their representatives and government officials responsible for safety and health;
c) to introduce occupational safety and health concepts and, where appropriate, competencies, in educational and vocational training programmes;
d) to facilitate the exchange of occupational safety and health statistics and data among relevant authorities, employers, workers and their representatives;
e) to provide information and advice to employers and workers and their respective organizations and to promote or facilitate cooperation among them with a view to eliminating or minimizing, so far as is reasonably practicable, work-related hazards and risks;
f) to promote, at the level of the workplace, the establishment of safety and health policies and joint safety and health committees and the designation of workers’ occupational safety and health representatives, in accordance with national law and practice; and
g) to address the constraints of micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises and contractors in the implementation of occupational safety and health policies and regulations, in accordance with national law and practice.
6. Members should promote a management systems approach to occupational safety and health, such as the approach set out in the Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems (ILO-OSH 2001).

7. The national programme on occupational safety and health as defined in Article 1(c) of the Convention should be based on principles of assessment and management of hazards and risks, in particular at the workplace level.
8. The national programme should identify priorities for action, which should be periodically reviewed and updated.
9. In formulating and reviewing the national programme, Members may extend the consultations provided for in Article 5(1) of the Convention to other interested parties.
10. With a view to giving effect to the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention, the national programme should actively promote workplace prevention measures and activities that include the participation of employers, workers and their representatives.
11. The national programme on occupational safety and health should be coordinated, where appropriate, with other national programmes and plans, such as those relating to public health and economic development.
12. In formulating and reviewing the national programme, Members should take into account the instruments of the ILO relevant to the promotional framework for occupational safety and health, listed in the Annex to this Recommendation, without prejudice to their obligations under Conventions that they have ratified.

13. Members should prepare and regularly update a national profile which summarizes the existing situation on occupational safety and health and the progress made towards achieving a safe and healthy working environment. The profile should be used as a basis for formulating and reviewing the national programme.
14. 1. The national profile on occupational safety and health should include information on the following elements, as applicable: a) laws and regulations, collective agreements where appropriate, and any other relevant instruments on occupational safety and health;
b) the authority or body, or the authorities or bodies, responsible for occupational safety and health, designated in accordance with national law and practice;
c) the mechanisms for ensuring compliance with national laws and regulations, including the systems of inspection;
d) the arrangements to promote, at the level of the undertaking, cooperation between management, workers and their representatives as an essential element of workplace-related prevention measures;
e) the national tripartite advisory body, or bodies, addressing occupational safety and health issues;
f) the information and advisory services on occupational safety and health;
g) the provision of occupational safety and health training;
h) the occupational health services in accordance with national law and practice;
i) research on occupational safety and health;
j) the mechanism for the collection and analysis of data on occupational injuries and diseases and their causes, taking into account relevant ILO instruments;
k) the provisions for collaboration with relevant insurance or social security schemes covering occupational injuries and diseases; and
l) the support mechanisms for a progressive improvement of occupational safety and health conditions in micro-enterprises, in small and medium-sized enterprises and in the informal economy.
a) laws and regulations, collective agreements where appropriate, and any other relevant instruments on occupational safety and health;
b) the authority or body, or the authorities or bodies, responsible for occupational safety and health, designated in accordance with national law and practice;
c) the mechanisms for ensuring compliance with national laws and regulations, including the systems of inspection;
d) the arrangements to promote, at the level of the undertaking, cooperation between management, workers and their representatives as an essential element of workplace-related prevention measures;
e) the national tripartite advisory body, or bodies, addressing occupational safety and health issues;
f) the information and advisory services on occupational safety and health;
g) the provision of occupational safety and health training;
h) the occupational health services in accordance with national law and practice;
i) research on occupational safety and health;
j) the mechanism for the collection and analysis of data on occupational injuries and diseases and their causes, taking into account relevant ILO instruments;
k) the provisions for collaboration with relevant insurance or social security schemes covering occupational injuries and diseases; and
l) the support mechanisms for a progressive improvement of occupational safety and health conditions in micro-enterprises, in small and medium-sized enterprises and in the informal economy.
2. In addition, the national profile on occupational safety and health should include information on the following elements, where appropriate: a) coordination and collaboration mechanisms at national and enterprise levels, including national programme review mechanisms;
b) technical standards, codes of practice and guidelines on occupational safety and health;
c) educational and awareness-raising arrangements, including promotional initiatives;
d) specialized technical, medical and scientific institutions with linkages to various aspects of occupational safety and health, including research institutes and laboratories concerned with occupational safety and health;
e) personnel engaged in the area of occupational safety and health, such as inspectors, safety and health officers, and occupational physicians and hygienists;
f) occupational injury and disease statistics;
g) occupational safety and health policies and programmes of organizations of employers and workers;
h) regular or ongoing activities related to occupational safety and health, including international collaboration;
i) financial and budgetary resources with regard to occupational safety and health; and
j) data addressing demography, literacy, economy and employment, as available, as well as any other relevant information.
a) coordination and collaboration mechanisms at national and enterprise levels, including national programme review mechanisms;
b) technical standards, codes of practice and guidelines on occupational safety and health;
c) educational and awareness-raising arrangements, including promotional initiatives;
d) specialized technical, medical and scientific institutions with linkages to various aspects of occupational safety and health, including research institutes and laboratories concerned with occupational safety and health;
e) personnel engaged in the area of occupational safety and health, such as inspectors, safety and health officers, and occupational physicians and hygienists;
f) occupational injury and disease statistics;
g) occupational safety and health policies and programmes of organizations of employers and workers;
h) regular or ongoing activities related to occupational safety and health, including international collaboration;
i) financial and budgetary resources with regard to occupational safety and health; and
j) data addressing demography, literacy, economy and employment, as available, as well as any other relevant information.

15. The International Labour Organization should:
a) facilitate international technical cooperation on occupational safety and health with a view to assisting countries, particularly developing countries, for the following purposes: (i) to strengthen their capacity for the establishment and maintenance of a national preventative safety and health culture;
(ii) to promote a management systems approach to occupational safety and health; and
(iii) to promote the ratification, in the case of Conventions, and implementation of instruments of the ILO relevant to the promotional framework for occupational safety and health, listed in the Annex to this Recommendation;
(i) to strengthen their capacity for the establishment and maintenance of a national preventative safety and health culture;
(ii) to promote a management systems approach to occupational safety and health; and
(iii) to promote the ratification, in the case of Conventions, and implementation of instruments of the ILO relevant to the promotional framework for occupational safety and health, listed in the Annex to this Recommendation;
b) facilitate the exchange of information on national policies within the meaning of Article 1(a) of the Convention, on national systems and programmes on occupational safety and health, including on good practices and innovative approaches, and on the identification of new and emerging hazards and risks in the workplace; and
c) provide information on progress made towards achieving a safe and healthy working environment.

16. The Annex to this Recommendation should be reviewed and updated by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office. Any revised annex so established shall be adopted by the Governing Body and shall replace the preceding annex after having been communicated to the Members of the International Labour Organization.