On the ratification of the Convention on the Fundamentals Promoting Occupational Safety and Health (Convention 187)

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To ratify the Convention on the Fundamentals Promoting Occupational Safety and Health (Convention 187), adopted in Geneva at the 95th session of the General Conference of the International Labour Organization on June 15, 2006.

President  Of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. NAZARBAYEV

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE

CONVENTION 187

CONVENTION ON THE FUNDAMENTALS PROMOTING OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADOPTED AT THE NINETY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE, GENEVA, 15 JUNE 2006 Authentic text

Convention 187

CONVENTION ON THE FUNDAMENTALS PROMOTING OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and meeting on 31 May 2006 for its 95th session, recognizing the global scale of occupational injuries, diseases and deaths at work and the need to take further measures to reduce them, recalling that the protection of workers in the event of general and occupational Occupational diseases and injuries are one of the tasks of the International Labour Organization, provided for in its Charter, recognizing, That occupational injuries, occupational diseases and deaths at work have a negative impact on productivity and the process of economic and social development, noting section III (g) of the Philadelphia Declaration, according to which the International Labour Organization has made a solemn commitment to promote the adoption by countries of the world of programs aimed at ensuring the necessary protection of workers' lives and health all professions, Bearing in mind the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the Mechanism for its Implementation, noting The Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (155), the Occupational Safety and Health Recommendation, 1981 (164) and other instruments of the International Labour Organization relevant to the framework for promoting occupational safety and health, Recalling that the promotion of occupational safety and Health is part of the Decent Work for All Agenda of the International Labour Organization, Recalling the Conclusions on the ILO's normative work in the field of occupational safety and health - The global strategy adopted at the 91st session (2003) of the International Labour Conference, in particular, with regard to ensuring that national occupational safety and health issues are given priority in national programmes, emphasizing the importance of continuously developing a national culture of prevention in the field of occupational safety and health, deciding to adopt a number of proposals related to occupational safety and health occupational health, which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and having decided to give these proposals the form of an international convention, Adopts this fifteenth day of June of the year two thousand and six the following Convention, which may be referred to as the 2006 Convention on the Fundamentals Promoting Occupational Safety and Health.

I. Definitions

Article 1

In relation to this Convention: (a) the term "national policy" means a national policy in the field of occupational safety and health and the working environment, developed in accordance with the principles laid down in article 4 of the 1981 Convention on Occupational Safety and Health (155); (b) the term "national occupational safety and health system" or "national system" means the infrastructure that provides the basic framework for the implementation of national policies and national programmes in the field of occupational safety and health; (c) The term "national occupational safety and health program" or "national program" means any national program that includes tasks to be completed within a specified time frame, priorities and means of action formulated to improve occupational safety and health, as well as means of evaluating the results achieved.; (d) The term "national occupational safety and health prevention culture" means a culture in which the right to a safe and healthy work environment is respected at all levels, when Governments, employers and employees are actively involved in ensuring a safe and healthy work environment through a system of established rights, responsibilities and responsibilities, and when the principles of prevention the highest priority is given.

II. Goal

Article 2

1. Each Member State ratifying this Convention shall promote the continuous improvement of occupational safety and health in order to prevent occupational injuries, occupational diseases and deaths at work by developing, in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and workers, a national policy, a national system and a national program. 2. Each Member State shall take active measures to progressively create a safe and healthy working environment through a national occupational safety and health system and national programmes, taking into account the principles laid down in the acts of the International Labour Organization (ILO) related to the fundamentals promoting occupational safety and health. 3. Each Member State, in consultation with the most representative employers' and workers' organizations, periodically reviews measures that could be taken to ratify the relevant ILO conventions on occupational safety and health.

III. National policy

Article 3

1. Each Member State promotes a safe and healthy working environment through the development of national policies. 2. Each Member State, at all appropriate levels, promotes and strives to achieve the realization of the right of workers to a safe and healthy working environment. 3. In developing its national policy, each Member State, taking into account its national circumstances and practices, as well as in consultation with the most representative organizations of employers and employees, promotes fundamental principles such as: assessment of occupational risks or hazards; combating occupational risks or hazards in their place of origin; development of a national culture of prevention in occupational safety and health, which includes information, advice, and training.

IV. The national system

Article 4

1. Each Member State establishes, maintains, progressively develops and periodically reviews a national occupational safety and health system based on consultations with the most representative organizations of employers and employees. 2. The national Occupational Safety and Health system includes, among other things: (a) legislative and regulatory legal acts, collective agreements, as appropriate, and any other relevant occupational safety and health regulations; (b) an authority or agency, or bodies or agencies responsible for occupational safety and health, established in accordance with national legislation and practice; (c) mechanisms for ensuring compliance with national laws and regulations, including inspection systems; (d) measures aimed at ensuring cooperation at the enterprise level between its management, employees and their representatives as the main element of preventive measures in the workplace. 3. The national occupational safety and Health system, where appropriate, includes: (a) a national tripartite advisory body or bodies dealing with occupational safety and health; (b) information and advisory services on occupational safety and health; (c) occupational safety and health training; (d) occupational health services in accordance with national legislation and practice; (e) scientific research in the field of occupational safety and health; (f) a mechanism for collecting and analyzing data on occupational injuries and diseases, taking into account relevant ILO instruments; (g) provisions for cooperation with relevant insurance or social security systems covering occupational injuries and diseases; (h) supportive mechanisms aimed at progressively improving conditions in the field of occupational safety and health in microenterprises, as well as in small and medium-sized enterprises and in the informal economy.

V. The National Program

Article 5

1. Each Member State shall develop, implement, monitor, evaluate and periodically review a national occupational safety and health program based on consultations with the most representative organizations of employers and employees. 2. The National Program: (a) promotes the development of a national culture of prevention in the field of occupational safety and health; (b) contributes to the protection of workers by eliminating or minimizing, as far as practicable, occupational risks and hazards, in accordance with national legislation and practice, in order to prevent occupational injuries, occupational diseases and deaths at work, as well as to promote occupational safety and health at the workplace; (c) is developed and reviewed based on an analysis of the national occupational safety and health situation, including an analysis of the national occupational safety and health system; (d) includes objectives, objectives and performance indicators; (e) is supported, as far as possible, by other complementary national programmes and plans that promote the progressive establishment of a safe and healthy working environment. 3. The national Program shall be widely publicized and, as far as possible, approved and put into effect by the highest State authorities.

VI. Final provisions

Article 6

This Convention does not revise any other international labour convention or recommendation.

Article 7

The official instruments of ratification of this Convention shall be sent to the Director General of the International Labour Office for registration.

Article 8

1. This Convention shall be binding only on those member States of the International Labour Organization whose instruments of ratification have been registered by the Director General of the International Labour Office. 2. It shall enter into force 12 months after the date of registration by the Director General of the instruments of ratification of the two Member States. 3. Subsequently, this Convention shall enter into force for each Member State 12 months after the date of registration of its instrument of ratification.

Article 9

1. A Member State that has ratified this Convention may, after ten years from the date of its initial entry into force, denounce it on the basis of a declaration addressed to the Director General of the International Labour Office for registration. The denunciation takes effect one year after the date of registration of the application for denunciation. 2. For each Member State that has ratified this Convention and, within one year of the expiration of the ten years specified in the preceding paragraph, has not exercised the right of denunciation provided for in this article, the Convention shall remain in force for the next ten years, and thereafter it may denounce it during the first year of each subsequent decade in accordance with the procedure provided for in this article..

Article 10

1. The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Member States of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations sent to him by the Member States of the Organization. 2. In notifying the Member States of the registration of the second instrument of ratification received by him, the Director-General shall draw their attention to the date of entry into force of this Convention.

Article 11

The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall transmit to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration, in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, comprehensive information on all ratifications and denunciations registered by him.

Article 12

Whenever the Governing Body of the International Labour Office considers it necessary, it shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and consider whether the issue of its revision should be included in the agenda of the Conference.

Article 13

1. If the Conference adopts a new convention revising this Convention, and unless the new convention provides otherwise, then: (a) The ratification by a Member State of the new revising convention shall entail, by virtue of law, the immediate denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of article 9 above and provided that the new, the revising Convention has entered into force; (b) from the date of entry into force of the new revising convention, this Convention shall cease to be open for ratification by the Member States. 2. In any case, this Convention remains in force in form and content for those Member States that have ratified it but have not ratified the revising convention.

Article 14

The English and French texts of this Convention are equally authentic. The above text is the authentic text of the Convention duly adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization at its ninety-fifth session, held in Geneva and declared closed on the sixteenth of June 2006. In witness whereof, on June sixteenth, 2006, we signed our signatures:

The President of the Conference is CHESTMIR SAIDA Director General of the International Labour Office JUAN SOMAVIA

The above text of the Convention is a true copy of the text, certified by the signatures of the President of the International Labour Conference and the Director General of the International Labour Office. The accuracy and completeness of the copy is verified,

for the Director General of the International Labour Office: Janelle Diller Deputy Legal Adviser at The International Labour Office

I hereby certify that this translation into Russian corresponds to the text of the Convention on Fundamentals Promoting Occupational Safety and Health (Convention 187), adopted by the General Conference of the International Labour Organization on June 15, 2006 at its 95th session in Geneva in English.

Director of the Department of Labor and Social Partnership Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Tleuov

RCPI's note! The following is the text of the Convention in English and French.

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