Overview of occupational safety and health in Latin America and the Caribbean: regional information note

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2023

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Title: Overview of occupational safety and health in Latin America and the Caribbean; regional information note
Contributors: International Labour Organization
ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher: ILO; Lima
Date published: 2023
Number of pages: 18 p.
Language: English
Asset Type: brief
Record Identifier: 995318860202676
Table of contents: 1. A safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right at work -- 2. Fundamental conventions on safety and health at work -- 3. Estimates of occupational accidents and diseases -- 4. Ratification rate -- 5. A national tripartite body on OSH -- 6. Requirement to establish a joint workplace OSH committee -- 7. National OSH policy -- 8. National OSH Programme -- 9. Protection against undue consequences for workers who remove themselves from dangerous work situations -- 10. National system for recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases.