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C155 - Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155)

C155 - Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155)   Preamble The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation, Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Sixty-seventh Session on 3 June 1981, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to safety and health and the working environment, which is the sixth item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of an international Convention, adopts this twenty-second day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one the following Convention, which may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981: PART I. SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS Article 1 §   1. This Convention applies to all branches of economic activity. §   2. A Member ratifying this Convention may, after consultation at the earliest possible stag...

Legal register preparation for EHS

Legal register preparation related to Environment Health Safety Legal register :   A document/ form which that list down of legislation, regulations which is applicable to our organization operation. Why we required legal register ? It is not mandatory for a company to have a legal register but tracking their compliance again various rules and regulation will be very difficult. Moreover it will be very helpful if we create, we can identify the exact requirements (includes new requirements). How to create a legal register : For creating a legal register we need to look at various aspects which are explained below as follows Note : I have taken India (State- Tamil Nadu) as an example ·         Generally for any industries at India certain basic act/laws are applicable which are as follows Ø    Industrial safety and health act and rules Ø    TN Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition Rules - 1975) Ø ...