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Develop or update a national OSH programme
This is based on the national OSH profile and includes priorities, objectives and targets for improving OSH within a predetermined timeframe, along with indicators for assessing progress.
A national OSH Programme should:
- Promote the development of a national preventative safety and health culture.
- Contribute to the protection of workers by eliminating or minimizing, so far as is reasonably practicable, work-related hazards and risks, in accordance with national law and practice, in order to prevent occupational injuries, diseases and deaths and promote safety and health in the workplace.
- Be formulated and reviewed on the basis of analysis of the national situation regarding OSH, including analysis of the National OSH System.
- Include objectives, targets and indicators of progress.
- Be supported, where possible, by other complementary national programmes and plans which will assist in achieving progressively a safe and healthy working environment.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- ILO: Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 187) and Recommendation (No. 197), 2006
- ILO: Support Kit for Developing Occupational Safety and Health Legislation (2022)
- ILO: Anticipate, prepare and respond to crises – Invest now in resilient OSH systems (2021)
- ILO: Instruments on Chemical Safety – Analysis and synergies with other international frameworks on the sound management of chemicals (2020)
- ILO: National profiles on occupational safety and health (2015)
- ILO: Exposure to hazardous chemicals at work and resulting health impacts - A global review (2021)
- ILO: The sound management of chemicals and waste in the world of work (2019)
- ILO: Training package on development of a national programme of occupational safety and health (2012)