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ILO RECOMMANDATION

Convention (C155)
In 1981, the ILO adopted the Occupational Safety and Health Convention (C155). This describes a basic
policy for health and safety at both the national level and the level of the individual organization.

Recommendation 1981 (R164)


The Occupational Safety and Health Recommendation 1981 (R164) supplements C155 and provides
more detailed guidance on how to comply with the policies of C155. In particular, it identifies obligations
that might be placed on employers and employees in order to achieve the basic goal of a safe and
healthy place of work.

Many countries that belong to the ILO have ratified C155 and R164 and have
then legislated to put their requirements into the national (or regional) law.

In C155 and R164 there is a general recognition that most of the responsibility for ensuring good
standards of health and safety at work lies with the employer – since they provide the work, the
workplace, the tools, systems and methods used, etc. They also recognize that individual workers have
responsibilities. Though the legal wording varies between countries, the general theme is that
employers and workers must exercise reasonable care to ensure safety and absence of risk to health.

Article 16 of C155 identifies some basic obligations placed on employers:


1. “…to ensure that…the workplaces, machinery, equipment and processes under their control are safe
and without risk to health.
2. …to ensure that…the chemical, physical and biological substances and agents under their control are
without risk to health...
3. …to provide…adequate protective clothing and protective equipment to prevent…risk of accidents or
of adverse effects on health.”
Source: C155 Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (abbreviated)
Copyright © International Labour Organization 1981
These duties are very generally worded in the Convention. R164 expands on what they might mean in
practice. It identifies some practical obligations to meet the objective of Article 16 of C155.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has published several international standards on
recommended
reporting procedures. The principal reference is the 2002 Protocol to the Occupational Safety and
Health
Convention 1981 (P155); this greatly expands on the general reporting standards of Article 4 of the
Occupational
Safety and Health Convention 1981 (C155). It is supported by Recommendation 194, which lists types of
diseases
that should be reported to national governments.

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