How to Established National Occupational Health and Safety at Institute

Commentary

It is the health care services primarily concerned with maintaining the health of people at work or those who were at one time injured or exposed to a hazard while on the job , Its principal role is the provision of health advice to organizations and individuals to ensure that the highest standards of Health and Safety at Work can be achieved and maintained (should be made up of multidisciplinary teams whose composition should be determined by the nature of the duties to be performed).

The field of occupational health and safety presents a large variety of job opportunities for those who are interested in promoting workplace health and safety. Broadly speaking, occupational health and safety workers are responsible for maintaining a safe working environment. In the public sector, health and safety workers primarily enforce health and safety legislation, and in the private sector, they primarily focus on risk management, employee productivity, and reduction of liability.

Form my field of specialty and due to the limitation and shortage, we face it during collecting the data in this workshop so, we suggest and recommend the following

1. Create a national OHS system
2. Improve our reporting and recording system
3. Create National institute OSH (Safe Work) systems, to promote our national management system, improve working conditions.

Why we need OSH system?

Looking for and comparing the developing countries vs industrial countries we found • Absence of OSH at the level of the undertakings in MOST of these countries.

Commentary

• A national OSH program might not even exist.
• OSH in developing countries, when present, similar to those during industrialization in the 19th century.
• Specialists in the field: either not present or few.

Moreover, we need to: o Introduce/strengthen/enforce Preventive measures. o Strengthen: IDENTIFICATION procedures /RECORDING procedures and/NOTIFICATION procedures for occupational diseases and accidents so that we

• Identifying their causes
• Establishing preventive measures
• PROMOTING THE HARMONIZATION OF RECORDING AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS and
• Improving the compensation process

OSH Program (safe work) overall Aim to (ILO.Ref.)

a. Creating awareness of the dimensions and consequences of work-related accidents, injuries and diseases, b. Promoting the goal of basic protection for all workers in conformity with international labor standards c. Enhancing the capacity of country and industry to design and implement effective preventive and protective policies and programs.

So, create and establishing a new national agency with duty of OSH taking care of all occupational related activities including

• Occupational registry
• Implementation of all ILO conventions and recommendations signed by our country
• Occupational health services
• Training and education

National Institution for OSH Responsible(in Addition to Training and Education)

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Challenges & Limitations

• Absence of OSH program at the level of the undertakings in MOST of these developing countries
• Concentration more toward curative medicine than preventive
• Conceptually, employers, investors, workers and decision-makers do not yet appreciate the real roles of occupational health services
• Employers consider prevention of work-related diseases and accidents, improvement of working conditions, and enforcement of standards as a cost to business.
• A major challenge is how to make occupational health services attractive to the employers
• No or less study and researches done in the felid
• Week infra structure and basic data
• how to address environmental health issues
• The central challenge to occupational health and safety practitioners is to convey understanding of the real benefits of occupational health services to all parties concerned
• Major challenge ( Geographic, economic, administrative and social)