Occupational Safety and health of workers and working environment (Note: Date of entry into force: 11: 08:1983.)
Location: Geneva
Date of adoption: 22:06:1981
Session of the Conference: 67
Subject: Occupational Safety and Health at Work
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status: The date instrument
General Conference of the International Labour Organization:
convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met on 3 June 1981 in his sixty-seventh session;
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning safety, hygiene and working environment, which is the sixth item on the agenda of the meeting, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international convention, adopts June 22, 1981, the present Convention, which may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health, 1981: Part I.
Scope and Definitions Article 1
1. This Convention applies to all branches of economic activity.
2. Each Member which ratifies this Convention may, after consultation as soon as possible with the representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, in part or in whole, particular branches of economic activity, such as shipping or fishing, where such special problems of some importance.
3. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall list in the first report on the implementation of the Convention submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, the industries that have been excluded under paragraph 2 of this article, explaining the reasons for such exclusion and describing measures taken to give adequate protection to workers in excluded branches, and shall indicate in subsequent reports any progress towards wider application.
Article 2 1. This Convention applies to all workers in the branches of economic activity covered.
2. Each Member which ratifies this Convention may, after consultation, as soon as possible, with the representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, in part or in whole, limited categories of workers for which there are particular difficulties.
3. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall list in its first report on the implementation of the Convention submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, any limited categories of workers who have been excluded under paragraph 2 of this article, explaining the reasons for such exclusion, and shall indicate in subsequent reports any progress towards wider application.
Article 3 For the purposes of this Convention:
a) the term branches of economic activity covers all branches in which workers are employed, including the public;
b) the term workers covers all employees, including public employees;
c) the term workplace covers all places where workers need to be or where to go by reason of their employment which are under the direct or indirect control of the employer;
d) the term regulations covers all provisions which the authority or authorities have been given force of law;
e) the term health in relation to work, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but also the physical and affecting mental health are directly related to safety and health at work.
Part II. Principles of National Policy
Article 4 1. Each Member shall, in consultation with representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, taking into account national conditions and practice, develop, implement and periodically review a coherent national policy on occupational safety and health of workers and working environment.
2. This policy shall be to prevent accidents and injury to health arising out of, linked with work or occurring during operation, minimizing, as far as is reasonably practicable, the causes of risks inherent in the working environment.
Article 5
The policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention shall take into account the broad areas of action, insofar as it affects safety and health of workers and the working environment:
a) design, testing, selection, replacement, installation, setup, use and maintenance of the material elements of work (workplaces, working environment, tools, machinery and equipment, chemicals and chemical, physical and biological processes);
b) relationships between the material elements of work and the people who supervise the work, and adaptation of machinery, equipment, time work, work organization and processes to physical and mental capacities of workers;
c) training, including necessary further training, qualifications and motivations of those involved, in one form or another, so that adequate levels of safety and health;
d) communication and cooperation at the group work and enterprise at all levels appropriate to the national level including;
e) the protection of workers and their representatives from disciplinary measures as a result of actions taken by them in accordance with the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention.
Article 6 of the policy formulation referred to in Article 4 of this Convention should clarify the roles and responsibilities, safety and health of workers and working environment of public authorities, employers, workers and other interested persons, taking into account the complementary nature of these responsibilities, and the conditions and practice.
Article 7
The situation regarding occupational safety and health of workers and working environment should be reviewed at appropriate intervals, or comprehensive examinations for certain sectors, to identify major problems, evolving effective means of resolving them, define the priority of the measures to be taken, and evaluate the results.
Part III. Nationwide Action
Article 8 Each Member shall, by law or regulation or any other method consistent with national conditions and practice, and in consultation with representative organizations of employers and workers concerned necessary action to give effect to Article 4 of this Convention.
Article 9 1. The enforcement of laws and regulations concerning safety, hygiene and working environment should be secured by an inspection system adequate and appropriate.
2. The control system shall provide appropriate sanctions for violations of laws or regulations.
Article 10 should be taken to guide employers and workers in order to help them meet their legal obligations.
Article 11 To give effect to the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention, the authority or authorities shall ensure the progressive realization of the following functions:
a) the determination, where the nature and degree of hazards so require, of conditions governing the design, construction and packaging companies, their operations, the most important changes affecting them and modification of their purposes, and the safety of technical equipment used at work and the application of procedures defined by the competent authorities;
b) the determination of operations and processes that are prohibited, limited or subject to the approval or control of the authority or authorities, as well as the identification of substances and agents to which occupational exposure shall be prohibited, limited or subject to the approval or control of the authority or competent authorities must take into consideration the health risks caused by simultaneous exposure to several substances or agents;
c ) the establishment and implementation of procedures for the notification of occupational accidents and diseases, by employers and, where appropriate, insurance institutions and other bodies or persons directly concerned, and the annual statistics on occupational accidents occupational diseases;
d) the holding of inquiries Once an accident, a case of occupational disease or any other damage to health which arise at work or in connection with work appear to reflect a serious situation;
e) the annual publication of information on measures taken to implement the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention and on occupational accidents, cases of occupational diseases and health damage that occurred at work or in connection with this, f) given the conditions and possibilities The introduction or development of research systems of chemical, physical or biological terms the risks posed to the health of workers.
Article 12 shall be made in accordance with national law and practice to ensure that those who design, manufacture, import, supply or transfer title of machinery, equipment or substances for occupational use:
a) ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the machinery, equipment or substance does not entail any danger to the safety and health of those using it correctly;
b) provide information on the correct installation and use of machinery and equipment and the correct use of substances on the hazards of machinery and equipment and dangerous properties of chemicals, agents or physical or biological products, as well as instructions on how to prevent known risks
c) undertake studies and research or are kept abreast of any other form of the evolution of scientific and technical knowledge necessary to meet the obligations set forth in paragraphs a) and b) of this article.
Article 13 In accordance with national conditions and practice, should be protected from undue consequences to any worker who removed himself from a work situation believe, on reasonable grounds, that presents an imminent and serious danger to life or health.
Article 14 shall be made to promote in a manner appropriate to national conditions and practice, including issues of safety, hygiene and working environment at all levels of education and training, including higher technical, medical and professional, to meet the training needs of all workers.
Article 15 1. To ensure consistency in the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention and measures for its application, each Member shall, after consultation as soon as possible with the most representative organizations of employers and workers where appropriate, with other agencies, arrangements consistent with the national conditions and practice to achieve the necessary coordination between various authorities and various agencies to give effect to Parts II and III of this Convention.
2. When circumstances require it and the conditions and practice permit, these provisions include the establishment of a central body.
Part IV. Company Action Level
Article 16 1. Employers should be required, in so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that workplaces, machinery, equipment and operations and processes under their control are safe and without risk to the safety and health of workers.
2. Employers should be required, in so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that agents and chemical substances, physical and biological processes under their control do not involve health risks when taking protective measures.
3. Where necessary, employers must provide protective clothing and equipment appropriate to prevent, as far as is reasonably practicable, risk of accidents or adverse health effects.
Article 17 Whenever two or more companies to develop activities simultaneously in the same workplace have a duty to cooperate in implementing the measures provided for in this Convention.
Article 18 Employers shall provide, where necessary, measures to address situations emergencies and accidents, including adequate first-aid administration.
Article 19 shall be arrangements at the enterprise level under which:
a) workers, in carrying out their work, cooperate to fulfill the obligations of the employer;
b) representatives of workers in the company to cooperate with the employer in the area of \u200b\u200bsafety and health;
c) representatives of workers in the undertaking are given adequate information about the measures taken by the employer to ensure safety and health and may consult their organizations representative about this information, they do not disclose commercial secrets;
d) workers and their representatives in the undertaking are given appropriate training in occupational safety and health;
e) workers or their representatives and, where appropriate, their representative organizations in the undertaking, in accordance with national law and practice, to examine all aspects of safety and health associated with their work, and are consulted by the employer , to this end, by mutual agreement, technical advisers may outside the company;
f) workers immediately inform his immediate supervisor about any work situation that involves his opinion, on reasonable grounds, an imminent and serious danger to life or health, while the employer has taken remedial action, if necessary, no may require workers to return to a work situation where there is continuing imminent and serious danger to life or health.
Article 20 Cooperation between employers and workers or their representatives in the undertaking shall be an essential element of organizational measures and other adopted in application of Articles 16 to 19 of this Convention.
Article 21 Measures for safety and health shall not involve any financial burden to workers.
Part V. Final Provisions Article 22
This Convention does not revise any of the Conventions or international labor.
Article 23 The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the registration, the Director General of the International Labour Office.
Article 24 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director General.
2. Enter 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 enter into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
Article 25 1. Each Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after a period of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated for registration, the Director General of the International Labour Office. The 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, within one year after the expiration of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article shall be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years, as provided in this article.
Article 26 1. The Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated by the Members of the Organization.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of the second ratification communicated to him, the Director General shall draw the attention of the Members of the Organization on the date you enter into force of this Convention.
Article 27 The Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify the Secretary General of the United Nations, for the purposes of registration in accordance Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, full particulars of all ratifications and acts of denunciation registered under the preceding articles.
Article 28 Whenever it deems necessary, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office shall present to the Conference a report on the implementation of the Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.
Article 29 1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this whole or in part, and 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 25, when the new revising Convention shall come into force;
b) from the date of entry into force of the new Convention revising this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the Members.
2. This Agreement shall continue in force in any case, in form and content for those Members which have not ratified the revising Convention.
Article 30
The English and French texts of this Convention are equally authoritative.
Cross references Constitution: 22 Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization
Supplemented: P155: Complemented by the Protocol of 2002 to the Occupational Safety and Health, 1981
http://www. ilo.org/ilolex/spanish/convdisp1.htm
Location: Geneva
Date of adoption: 22:06:1981
Session of the Conference: 67
Subject: Occupational Safety and Health at Work
See the ratifications for this Convention Display the document
in : English French
status: The date instrument
General Conference of the International Labour Organization:
convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met on 3 June 1981 in his sixty-seventh session;
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals concerning safety, hygiene and working environment, which is the sixth item on the agenda of the meeting, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international convention, adopts June 22, 1981, the present Convention, which may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health, 1981: Part I.
Scope and Definitions Article 1
1. This Convention applies to all branches of economic activity.
2. Each Member which ratifies this Convention may, after consultation as soon as possible with the representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, in part or in whole, particular branches of economic activity, such as shipping or fishing, where such special problems of some importance.
3. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall list in the first report on the implementation of the Convention submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization, the industries that have been excluded under paragraph 2 of this article, explaining the reasons for such exclusion and describing measures taken to give adequate protection to workers in excluded branches, and shall indicate in subsequent reports any progress towards wider application.
Article 2 1. This Convention applies to all workers in the branches of economic activity covered.
2. Each Member which ratifies this Convention may, after consultation, as soon as possible, with the representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, in part or in whole, limited categories of workers for which there are particular difficulties.
3. Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall list in its first report on the implementation of the Convention submitted under article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, any limited categories of workers who have been excluded under paragraph 2 of this article, explaining the reasons for such exclusion, and shall indicate in subsequent reports any progress towards wider application.
Article 3 For the purposes of this Convention:
a) the term branches of economic activity covers all branches in which workers are employed, including the public;
b) the term workers covers all employees, including public employees;
c) the term workplace covers all places where workers need to be or where to go by reason of their employment which are under the direct or indirect control of the employer;
d) the term regulations covers all provisions which the authority or authorities have been given force of law;
e) the term health in relation to work, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but also the physical and affecting mental health are directly related to safety and health at work.
Part II. Principles of National Policy
Article 4 1. Each Member shall, in consultation with representative organizations of employers and workers concerned, taking into account national conditions and practice, develop, implement and periodically review a coherent national policy on occupational safety and health of workers and working environment.
2. This policy shall be to prevent accidents and injury to health arising out of, linked with work or occurring during operation, minimizing, as far as is reasonably practicable, the causes of risks inherent in the working environment.
Article 5
The policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention shall take into account the broad areas of action, insofar as it affects safety and health of workers and the working environment:
a) design, testing, selection, replacement, installation, setup, use and maintenance of the material elements of work (workplaces, working environment, tools, machinery and equipment, chemicals and chemical, physical and biological processes);
b) relationships between the material elements of work and the people who supervise the work, and adaptation of machinery, equipment, time work, work organization and processes to physical and mental capacities of workers;
c) training, including necessary further training, qualifications and motivations of those involved, in one form or another, so that adequate levels of safety and health;
d) communication and cooperation at the group work and enterprise at all levels appropriate to the national level including;
e) the protection of workers and their representatives from disciplinary measures as a result of actions taken by them in accordance with the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention.
Article 6 of the policy formulation referred to in Article 4 of this Convention should clarify the roles and responsibilities, safety and health of workers and working environment of public authorities, employers, workers and other interested persons, taking into account the complementary nature of these responsibilities, and the conditions and practice.
Article 7
The situation regarding occupational safety and health of workers and working environment should be reviewed at appropriate intervals, or comprehensive examinations for certain sectors, to identify major problems, evolving effective means of resolving them, define the priority of the measures to be taken, and evaluate the results.
Part III. Nationwide Action
Article 8 Each Member shall, by law or regulation or any other method consistent with national conditions and practice, and in consultation with representative organizations of employers and workers concerned necessary action to give effect to Article 4 of this Convention.
Article 9 1. The enforcement of laws and regulations concerning safety, hygiene and working environment should be secured by an inspection system adequate and appropriate.
2. The control system shall provide appropriate sanctions for violations of laws or regulations.
Article 10 should be taken to guide employers and workers in order to help them meet their legal obligations.
Article 11 To give effect to the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention, the authority or authorities shall ensure the progressive realization of the following functions:
a) the determination, where the nature and degree of hazards so require, of conditions governing the design, construction and packaging companies, their operations, the most important changes affecting them and modification of their purposes, and the safety of technical equipment used at work and the application of procedures defined by the competent authorities;
b) the determination of operations and processes that are prohibited, limited or subject to the approval or control of the authority or authorities, as well as the identification of substances and agents to which occupational exposure shall be prohibited, limited or subject to the approval or control of the authority or competent authorities must take into consideration the health risks caused by simultaneous exposure to several substances or agents;
c ) the establishment and implementation of procedures for the notification of occupational accidents and diseases, by employers and, where appropriate, insurance institutions and other bodies or persons directly concerned, and the annual statistics on occupational accidents occupational diseases;
d) the holding of inquiries Once an accident, a case of occupational disease or any other damage to health which arise at work or in connection with work appear to reflect a serious situation;
e) the annual publication of information on measures taken to implement the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention and on occupational accidents, cases of occupational diseases and health damage that occurred at work or in connection with this, f) given the conditions and possibilities The introduction or development of research systems of chemical, physical or biological terms the risks posed to the health of workers.
Article 12 shall be made in accordance with national law and practice to ensure that those who design, manufacture, import, supply or transfer title of machinery, equipment or substances for occupational use:
a) ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the machinery, equipment or substance does not entail any danger to the safety and health of those using it correctly;
b) provide information on the correct installation and use of machinery and equipment and the correct use of substances on the hazards of machinery and equipment and dangerous properties of chemicals, agents or physical or biological products, as well as instructions on how to prevent known risks
c) undertake studies and research or are kept abreast of any other form of the evolution of scientific and technical knowledge necessary to meet the obligations set forth in paragraphs a) and b) of this article.
Article 13 In accordance with national conditions and practice, should be protected from undue consequences to any worker who removed himself from a work situation believe, on reasonable grounds, that presents an imminent and serious danger to life or health.
Article 14 shall be made to promote in a manner appropriate to national conditions and practice, including issues of safety, hygiene and working environment at all levels of education and training, including higher technical, medical and professional, to meet the training needs of all workers.
Article 15 1. To ensure consistency in the policy referred to in Article 4 of this Convention and measures for its application, each Member shall, after consultation as soon as possible with the most representative organizations of employers and workers where appropriate, with other agencies, arrangements consistent with the national conditions and practice to achieve the necessary coordination between various authorities and various agencies to give effect to Parts II and III of this Convention.
2. When circumstances require it and the conditions and practice permit, these provisions include the establishment of a central body.
Part IV. Company Action Level
Article 16 1. Employers should be required, in so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that workplaces, machinery, equipment and operations and processes under their control are safe and without risk to the safety and health of workers.
2. Employers should be required, in so far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that agents and chemical substances, physical and biological processes under their control do not involve health risks when taking protective measures.
3. Where necessary, employers must provide protective clothing and equipment appropriate to prevent, as far as is reasonably practicable, risk of accidents or adverse health effects.
Article 17 Whenever two or more companies to develop activities simultaneously in the same workplace have a duty to cooperate in implementing the measures provided for in this Convention.
Article 18 Employers shall provide, where necessary, measures to address situations emergencies and accidents, including adequate first-aid administration.
Article 19 shall be arrangements at the enterprise level under which:
a) workers, in carrying out their work, cooperate to fulfill the obligations of the employer;
b) representatives of workers in the company to cooperate with the employer in the area of \u200b\u200bsafety and health;
c) representatives of workers in the undertaking are given adequate information about the measures taken by the employer to ensure safety and health and may consult their organizations representative about this information, they do not disclose commercial secrets;
d) workers and their representatives in the undertaking are given appropriate training in occupational safety and health;
e) workers or their representatives and, where appropriate, their representative organizations in the undertaking, in accordance with national law and practice, to examine all aspects of safety and health associated with their work, and are consulted by the employer , to this end, by mutual agreement, technical advisers may outside the company;
f) workers immediately inform his immediate supervisor about any work situation that involves his opinion, on reasonable grounds, an imminent and serious danger to life or health, while the employer has taken remedial action, if necessary, no may require workers to return to a work situation where there is continuing imminent and serious danger to life or health.
Article 20 Cooperation between employers and workers or their representatives in the undertaking shall be an essential element of organizational measures and other adopted in application of Articles 16 to 19 of this Convention.
Article 21 Measures for safety and health shall not involve any financial burden to workers.
Part V. Final Provisions Article 22
This Convention does not revise any of the Conventions or international labor.
Article 23 The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to the registration, the Director General of the International Labour Office.
Article 24 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director General.
2. Enter 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 enter into force for any Member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.
Article 25 1. Each Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after a period of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated for registration, the Director General of the International Labour Office. The 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, within one year after the expiration of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article shall be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years, as provided in this article.
Article 26 1. The Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Organisation of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated by the Members of the Organization.
2. When notifying the Members of the Organisation of the registration of the second ratification communicated to him, the Director General shall draw the attention of the Members of the Organization on the date you enter into force of this Convention.
Article 27 The Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify the Secretary General of the United Nations, for the purposes of registration in accordance Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, full particulars of all ratifications and acts of denunciation registered under the preceding articles.
Article 28 Whenever it deems necessary, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office shall present to the Conference a report on the implementation of the Convention and shall examine the desirability of placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in whole or in part.
Article 29 1. Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this whole or in part, and 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 25, when the new revising Convention shall come into force;
b) from the date of entry into force of the new Convention revising this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification by the Members.
2. This Agreement shall continue in force in any case, in form and content for those Members which have not ratified the revising Convention.
Article 30
The English and French texts of this Convention are equally authoritative.
Cross references Constitution: 22 Article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organization
Supplemented: P155: Complemented by the Protocol of 2002 to the Occupational Safety and Health, 1981
http://www. ilo.org/ilolex/spanish/convdisp1.htm
