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Occupational Safety & Health
 The IOE strongly supports the need to have properly functioning safety and health workplace systems and cultures to ensure the protection of workers. This includes the need to ensure that risks are properly communicated and eliminated or at least minimized. It also includes the need to be flexible since risks change over time. The responsibility for a safe working environment, however, rests not just with employers but also with governments, as well as workers who must assume responsibility for their own safety. A number of ILO instruments touch on the issue of occupational safety and health in various sectors and industries. Some instruments relate to specific risks or substances while others are have a more general application. Despite the number of instruments, occupational safety and health Conventions enjoy very low ratification rates relative to other instruments. This is likely due to the fact that safety is not a one-size-fits-all issue. The aim should be to provide a safe place of work leaving it up to the enterprise to achieve this with real sanctions for failing to act or where a failure leads to an accident. The IOE is supportive of the ILO’s involvement in the issue of safety and health but the assistance that it provides must bring it as close as possible to the workplace. This could be achieved through practical tools such as checklists and assistance, such as training of inspectors, rather than the through the standard normative approach which has not been successful to date. IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee: Report of Meeting 10-14 November 2008 Safety Standard for Protection against Ionising Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation SourcesInternational negotiations to update Safety Standard for Protection against Ionising Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources The International Atomic Energy Authority is reviewing the Basic Safety Standard for Protection against Ionising Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources. The IOE representative, Mike Gaunt of Rolls Royce UK is acting in the interests of global employers and regularly reports on the meetings and developments. The Standard will form the basis of requirements for occupational, public and medical exposure and provide a framework for planned, existing and emergency exposure situations. The proposal is to have a document available for approval for submission to Member States in June 2009. IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee - Report of Meeting 10th - 14th November 2008 |
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