Occupational safety and health management systems; reporting, recording and notification of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health and incidents; occupational health services

AuthorInternational Labour Organization
Pages14-15
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MEISI05-R-2005-02-0159-1-En.doc
4. Occupational safety and health management
systems; reporting, recording and notification
of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health
and incidents; occupational health services
4.1. Introduction
4.1.1. Numerous other principles contained in existing ILO instruments – too lengthy
to reproduce in this text – are relevant to OSH in the iron and steel industry. These address:
occupational safety and health management systems; reporting, recording and notification
of work-related injuries and diseases, ill health and incidents; and occupational health
services. The relevant instruments are listed and summarized in Annexes II, III and IV.
They may be updated from time to time and users of this code should check for updated
versions.
4.2. OSH management systems
4.2.1. The process of improving working conditions in the iron and steel industry
should be approached systematically. With a view to achieving acceptable environmentally
sound conditions of OSH, it is necessary to invest in permanent structures for their
continuous review, planning, implementation, evaluation and action. This should be done
through the implementation of OSH management systems. The systems should be specific
to the facilities and appropriate to their size and the nature of activities. Their design and
application at national and facility levels should be guided by the ILO Guidelines on
occupational safety and health management systems, ILO-OSH 2001.
4.2.2. Typically, an OSH management system should contain the following main
elements:
(a) OSH policy;
(b) necessary conditions for the executing organization, i.e. establishment of
responsibility and accountability, competence and training, documentation,
communication and information;
(c) hazard and risk assessment, planning and implementation of OSH activities;
(d) evaluation of OSH performance and action for improvement.
4.3. Reporting, recording and notification of
work-related injuries and diseases, ill
health and incidents
4.3.1. Likewise, 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 authority 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 Occupational Diseases Recommendation,
2002 (No. 194), and the ILO code of practice Recording and notification of occupational
accidents and diseases.

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