Working Group No. 5

“Occupational Safety & Health”

Chair of the Working Group:

H.E Mr. Md. Mujibul Haque, State Minister

Government of Bangladesh

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• Need for speedy enactment of separate, unified fire and OSH legislation, covering all workers in both formal and informal sectors.

• Promotion of cooperation and sharing of OSH knowledge and good practices amongst SAARC region and other countries.

Recommendations

• Development and implementation of OSH policies & management systems at both national and enterprise level in line with ILO conventions & guidelines.

• Development and standardization of OSH curricula at different levels and capacity building of OSH professionals, managers and workers.

Recommendations

• Improvement of OSH statistics and data management systems and establishment of National Helpline for reporting of workplace accidents and occupational diseases.

Recommendations

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• Establishment of working group for speedy drafting of separate, unified fire and occupational safety legislation, covering both formal and informal sectors.

• Holding annual OSH conference for promotion of

cooperation and sharing of OSH knowledge & good practices amongst SAARC region and other countries.

Way Forward

• Establishment of working group for development and implementation of OSH policies & management systems at both national and enterprise level in line with ILO conventions.

• Establishment of working group for standardization of OSH curricula at different levels and strategy for capacity building of OSH professionals, managers and workers.

Way Forward

• Establishment of OSH National/ Provincial Data Management Centre for reporting & evaluation of OSH statistics for evidence based research and decision making.

Way Forward