General Regulation of the Disabilities Act Jurisdiction Ecuador Year 1994 Published in Spanish Original/other title [Spanish] Reglamento general de la Ley sobre discapacidades [Ecuador] Serial title Registro Oficial del Ecuador Source 4 Feb. 1994, 2nd Year, No.374, p.4-18. Descriptors [Primary] Ecuador, handicapped workers [Secondary] expertise, law, rehabilitation, role of government Subject category Occupational medicine, epidemiology Abstract Regulation implementing the Disabilities Act (No.180 of 1992). Among its provisions, it includes the following ones relating to occupational matters: it empowers the Ministry of Health to set up programmes for the prevention of biological and environmental hazards and of accidents in the workplace, and to carry out epidemiological studies to discover risk factors for disabilities; it empowers the Ministry of Labour to set up programmes for the professional rehabilitation and training and the employment of persons with disabilities; it sets up CONADIS (Consejo Nacional de Discapacidades, National Council for Disabilities), and it establishes the structure and responsibilities of this organization; it establishes the modalities of the evaluation and registration of disabilities; it introduces modifications regarding disabilities into the 1986 Regulations concerning the safety and health of workers and the improvement of the working environment (CIS 89-1065). CIS No. 95-1935 Database ID 65646