Safety and health organisation

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32. Safety and health organisation

32.1. General provisions

32.1.1. Besides ensuring that, by adequate systems of inspection

or other means, regulations and instructions in regard to safety and

health are observed, the competent authority should take all neces-

sary steps to promote the co-operation of employers and dock-

workers in achieving the best possible conditions of safety and health

in dock work in its widest sense.

32.1.2. Safety committees on which all parties concerned are

represented should be formed in each undertaking to promote safety

and health activities.

32.1.3. (1) The scope of safety committees should be deter-

mined according to local circumstances.

(2) Their functions should as a rule be as follows:

the drawing up of rules for the guidance of workers in carrying

out the respective operations in a safe manner and the modifica-

tion of these rules in the light of experience;

the consideration of suggestions for improving methods of work

in order to ensure greater safety and bringing suggestions, which

have been approved, to the notice of the persons concerned so

that they may be implemented;

the consideration of reports made after the investigation of

accidents; and

the preparation of safety leaflets, posters, etc., drawing attention

to particular hazards.

32.1.4. (1) Records should be kept of all occupational accidents

and cases of occupational disease affecting dockworkers.

(2) These records should be in such a form as to provide

(a) the occupational accident and disease experience of each depart-

ment, occupation and individual; and

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