Reporting, recording and notification of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health and incidents

• Pages: 34-40

34

5. Reporting, recording and notification

of work-related injuries and diseases,

ill health and incidents

5.1. General provisions

5.1.1. In the establishment, review and application of

systems for the reporting, recording and notification of work-

related injuries and diseases, ill health and incidents (see

Glossary for the assigned meanings), the competent author-

ity should take account of the Employment Injury Benefits

Convention, 1964 (No. 121), and its Schedule I, as amended

in 1980, the ILO Protocol of 2002 to the Occupational Safety

and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155), the List of Occupa-

tional Diseases Recommendation, 2002 (No. 194), and the

ILO code of practice Recording and notification of occupa-

tional accidents and diseases.

Reporting, recording and notifiction of work-related injuries

5.1.2. Reporting, recording, notification and investiga-

tion of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health and inci-

dents are essential for reactive monitoring and should be un-

dertaken to:

(a) provide reliable information about occupational acci-

dents and diseases at facility and national level;

(b) identify major safety and health problems arising from

shipbreaking activities;

(c) define priorities of action;

(d) evolve effective methods for dealing with occupational

accidents and diseases;

(e) monitor the effectiveness of measures taken to secure

satisfactory levels of safety and health.