ILO: Occupational Health Services Convention (No. 161), and Recommendation (No. 171), 1985
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The convention deals comprehensively with the provision of occupational health services and commits ratifying States to progressively develop occupational health services for all workers. The convention provides for the status, organization and conditions of operation for health services. The functions of these services are to include surveillance of the working environment and of workers’ health, information, education, training and advice, and first aid, treatment and health programmes. Further guidance is given in the supplementing Recommendation (No. 171). The ILO Code of Practice Technical and ethical guidelines for workers’ health surveillance (Geneva, 1998) provides additional guidance on the subject. The ILO Code of Practice Protection of workers’ personal data (Geneva, 1997) is also relevant in this area.
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