General Presentation on Draft Manual on Union Training on OSH Trade Union Training on the Validation of the training manual entitled “Union Training On Occupational Safety and Health” General Presentation on Draft Manual on Union Training on OSH
The Draft OSH Manual at a Glance Chapter 1: Health, Safety & Working Conditions: the ILO Normative Framework - “Decent work has to be safe work” - Prevention of occupational hazards Chapter 2: OSH: Risk Assessment
The Draft OSH Manual at a Glance Chapter 3: Health & HIV/AIDS - Introduction - ILO & AIDS Recommendation, 2010 - Discrimination & promotion of equality of opportunities & treatment - Prevention - Treatment and care - Support - Testing, privacy & confidentiality - Occupational Safety & Health
The Draft OSH Manual at a Glance Chapter 4: OSH: Prevention and Management - National level: development of new instruments and related guidance - Tripartite consultation – C.144 - Enterprise level: - Subordinate workers - Informal and self-employed workers
The Draft OSH Manual at a Glance Chapter 5: Union Action & Methodology of Prevention - Union action in the workplace: acting with method - A method for the employer - Advisory services for informal, self- employed and small enterprises’ workers
The Draft OSH Manual at a Glance Annex 1: Questionnaire: Basic information on OSH in each country context Annex 2: Fundamental Principles on OSHE (valid for all the hazards) Annex 3: Checklist: Safety, Health and Working Conditions. Bibliography
Why has the Manual been Structured in this Way? Chapter 1 concentrates on the ILO three most important Conventions on OSH (i.e. C.155, C.161 and C.187): - The framework for national policies, laws and regulations on OSH. - Trade unions need to have a vision of their national policies, laws and regulations concerning OSH. Chapter 2 focuses on the profiling of risks to which workers are exposed to at their places of work.
Why has the Manual been Structured in this Way? Chapter 3 concerns the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the world of work and ILO R.200, which together with the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and world of work are the reference documents used in the development of national policies and programmes as well as for coherent union action to overcome this human tragedy. Chapter 4 is about OSH Prevention and Management
Why has the Manual been Structured in this Way? Chapter 5 outlines the role of unions in relation to OSH at work.
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