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Make Decent Work Reality
Draft National OSH Policy for Government
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Bangladesh Occupational Safety,
Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE) and Center
for Corporate Accountability (CCA) drafted a
national occupational health and safety policy as
part of assignment from the World Health
Organization (WHO).
During the process of drafting of national OSH
policy, the OSHE and CCA consultant made series of
consultation with the senior policy makers of
different ministries and departments under the
Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of
Industries, Ministry of health, Ministry of
environment. Special consultation were made in this
regard with different key international development
partners such as the ILO, WHO, UNDP, GTZ, World
Bank, DFID to get their views in this special issue.
While drafting the OSH policy, a series of focal
group discussion were made with the representatives
of different employers association and professional
bodies i.e. BGMEA, BKMEA, BASI, REHAB, Architect
Department, and Engineers Association. Special
workshop was made with the national trade union
organizations and NGOs separately in this regard
from the period of August to September 2007.
Furthermore, the ILO-Smart Business Initiative (SBI)
alliance helped OSHE to organize a special
consultation with the SBI partner organizations on
draft policy issues at Dhaka University under the
period.
On 30 October 2007, the World Health Organization
(WHO) organized a high level National Workshop on
OSH at BRAC Inn, Dhaka where the preliminary draft
national OSH policy drafted by OSHE was presented in
for comments and suggestions. Based on
recommendations form that special programme the
draft was finalized and forwarded on December 2007
to the WHO for onward submission to the government
for consideration.
Seven key principals were identified in the draft
national OSH policy as follows:
• Application to all sectors
• Importance of developing practicable local
solutions
• Collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders
• Employer- Worker partnership
• Attention to Vulnerable workers
• A need for an increase in resources
• Periodic Review
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