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Social Protection Sector
Implementation report 2000-2001
Strategic Objective No. 3: Enhance the coverage and
effectiveness of social protection for all
Operational
Objective 3b:
Action against hazardous conditions
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Indicator
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Target
and Outcome
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3b.1.
The number of member States in which national SafeWork
programmes of action for selected industries and hazardous
agents such as construction, chemicals, mining and
silicosis are launched.
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Target:
8 member States.
Outcome:
8
China,
India, Thailand and Viet Nam: national action
programmes on elimination of silicosis launched.
Bulgaria,
Czech Republic, Malta, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam:
national SafeWork programmes of action to develop
modern labour inspection systems launched.
Brazil,
Bolivia, Ghana, Pakistan, Poland and Syria:
National SafeWork programmes developing.
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3b.2.
The number of member States that have improved the
coverage of their statistics on:
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(a)
occupational accidents and diseases;
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Target:
5 member States.
Outcome:
11
For
the first time, the statistics on occupational injuries
included in the 2000 edition of the ILO Yearbook of
Labour Statistics are disaggregated by sex.
Botswana,
Bolivia, Jamaica, Jordan, Lesotho, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Philippines, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
improved their ability to gather statistics
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occupational safety and health with gender disaggregation |
Target:
3 member States
Outcome: 6 Colombia, Jamaica, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines,
Viet Nam |
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The level of technical cooperation delivery |
Target:
$3 million
Outcome: Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Ethiopia,
India, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal,
Pakistan, Russian Federation, Viet Nam, Zambia and
Zimbabwe active occupational safety and health technical
cooperation projects |
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Strategies,
Results and Lessons Learned
This
operational objective has three diverse indicators. The
first two address national and targeted programmes of action
on priority workplace safety and health issues, and aspects
of occupational statistics processes in this area. The third
addresses technical cooperation delivery. Most results exceeded
projections for all three indicators.
The
strong outcomes were the result of close coordination between
headquarters programmes and the field units responsible
for the target countries. This collaborative action achieved
results not only for immediate beneficiary countries, but
also more broadly through the dissemination of results achieved.
The development of programmes of action on priority workplace
safety and health issues at the national level is one of
the few indicators kept for the forthcoming biennium under
this strategic objective.
Inter-agency
cooperation for sound management of chemicals
Many
agencies have an interest in collaborating to maximize
the best possible management of chemicals. The InFocus
Programme on Safety and Health at Work and in the Environment
(SafeWork) provided ILO leadership in the Inter-Organization
Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals. That
group coordinates the work of seven organizations (ILO,
WHO, UNEP, FAO, UNIDO, UNITAR and OECD). Its collaboration
led to the completion of a globally harmonized system
(GHS) for the classification and labelling of chemicals.
This universal standard addresses chemical hazard communication
needs for the workplace, transport, consumers and the
environment. It fulfils the request made in a 1989 ILO
Resolution and a recommendation from the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development. Completion
of the GHS was recognized as a major achievement and was
endorsed unanimously by the Governing Body of the ILO
in November 2001. Recognizing the importance of the GHS,
the UN ECOSOC has established a UN Sub-Committee on the
GHS to maintain and update the Standard. Further information
on the Sub-Committee can be found at: http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/danger.htm
The
second indicator under this operational objective relates
to improvement in statistical coverage of occupational accidents
and diseases, including the availability of information
by gender. Extremely modest initial targets were easily
met through collaboration between the SafeWork programme
and the Bureau of Statistics. As a result of the collaboration,
the Bureau of Statistics included data disaggregated by
sex in the chapter devoted to occupational injuries in the
Yearbook of Labour Statistics for the first time. It was
recognized that this kind of collaboration could have included
more programmes in the Office as well as outside organizations.
In view of this, a broader strategy based on Office wide
collaboration and cooperation with national social security
institutions will be implemented in 2002-03.
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