Kazakhstan: Majilis approved a bill to ratify the ILO Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention

On September 10, the Majilis, lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, approved a bill to ratify the ILO Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187).

10 September 2014

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“At present, the government is making efforts to switch from the compensation- and cost-based occupational safety and health management model to modern occupational risk management system that makes it possible to translate into reality preventive approaches saving workers’ health and to reduce costs related to unfavourable working conditions,” Minister of Health and Social Development Tamara Duseinova said in her address to parliamentarians of the Majilis. “For this purpose we propose to ratify the ILO Convention.”

The Convention has already been ratified by 31 member-states of the ILO. Russia and Moldova are on the list of ratifying countries on the CIS space.

The ILO Conventions enter into force one year after the instrument of ratification is registered by the Director-General of the International Labour Organization.

Source: Kazakhstanskaya Pravda