Standard-Setting Committee on Biological Hazards

The proposed Conclusions

• The Office prepared two reports for this first discussion:
  • Report IV(1), entitled Biological hazards in the working environment, sets out a summary of the law and practice in the different countries and contains a questionnaire to which the governments of all ILO Member States were invited to reply in consultation with organizations of employers and workers.
  • Report IV(2), entitled Protection against Biological hazards in the working environment, contains a summary and analysis of the replies to the questionnaire, as well as a set of proposed Conclusions, which will be the basis of the Committee's work.

  Both reports can be downloaded below from the section "Reports submitted to the Conference".

• Amendments to the proposed Conclusions

  As indicated in the tentative plan of work, the submission of amendments through the online platform was organized as follows:

  • Monday, 3 June, from 15:00 to 19:00 - Points 1 to 9  

  As of 4 June, from 10:30 to 15:30:

  • Tuesday, 4 June:          Points 10 to 17 
  • Wednesday, 5 June:    Points 18 to 23
  • Thursday, 6 June:        Points 24 to 28 
  • Saturday, 8 June:        Points 29 to 32
  • Monday, 10 June:        Points 33 to 44

  Clear instructions on the submission of amendments are provided on the Conference website.