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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).