Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
OSH Regulations and Enforcement: Comparison Between Low and Middle Income Countries and High- Income Countries
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
OSH Regulations and Enforcement: Comparison Between Low and Middle Income Countries and High- Income Countries
OSH Regulations and Enforcement: Comparison Between Low and Middle Income Countries and High- Income Countries
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OSH Regulations, Enforcement, Comparison, Low, Middle Income Countries,High- Income Countries
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Introduction: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Regulation and
Enforcement being a key driver of compliance, has contributed greatly towards the growth in workplace health and safety improvement globally, and as well prevented many workplace incidents, accidents and ill health. This has resulted in much economic gain, improvement in health, safety and wellbeing of employees, and even improved productivity. This further brings to mind why OSH should be seen as an integral part of countries’ economic development programs. So many countries have been signatories to several global OSH conventions, why are some countries doing far better in terms of domestication and afterwards enforcement of the clauses in those conventions? Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) seem to struggle in both domestication end enforcement while we notice relative improvement in their high-income country counterparts. We will be looking at possible OSH enforcement enablers within both categorizations, also identifying the factors behind the regulatory enforcement constraints and also the gains if these constraints were to be removed for ease of enforcement. How can we improve the existing practice in most LMICs from just signing and assenting to a convention of formulating local policies without adequate enforcement mechanism towards supporting the implementation of those regulations? What are the high-income countries doing differently and how has this improved workplace safety and health? What are the lessons to be learnt by LMICs?
Conclusions: Sharing of information will improve regulatory provisions, and enforcement in pursuant of decent OSH practices globally will strengthen systems. Has this been the case? We do not think so. There is an urgent need for strengthening of global collaboration in OSH and stimulation of discussions towards OSH development globally, with the overall aim of strengthening the weak links along the OSH value chain towards achieving a safe workplace for our increasing global workforce.
Enforcement being a key driver of compliance, has contributed greatly towards the growth in workplace health and safety improvement globally, and as well prevented many workplace incidents, accidents and ill health. This has resulted in much economic gain, improvement in health, safety and wellbeing of employees, and even improved productivity. This further brings to mind why OSH should be seen as an integral part of countries’ economic development programs. So many countries have been signatories to several global OSH conventions, why are some countries doing far better in terms of domestication and afterwards enforcement of the clauses in those conventions? Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) seem to struggle in both domestication end enforcement while we notice relative improvement in their high-income country counterparts. We will be looking at possible OSH enforcement enablers within both categorizations, also identifying the factors behind the regulatory enforcement constraints and also the gains if these constraints were to be removed for ease of enforcement. How can we improve the existing practice in most LMICs from just signing and assenting to a convention of formulating local policies without adequate enforcement mechanism towards supporting the implementation of those regulations? What are the high-income countries doing differently and how has this improved workplace safety and health? What are the lessons to be learnt by LMICs?
Conclusions: Sharing of information will improve regulatory provisions, and enforcement in pursuant of decent OSH practices globally will strengthen systems. Has this been the case? We do not think so. There is an urgent need for strengthening of global collaboration in OSH and stimulation of discussions towards OSH development globally, with the overall aim of strengthening the weak links along the OSH value chain towards achieving a safe workplace for our increasing global workforce.
Creator
Ehi Iden
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
January 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
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PDF
Language
English
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Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
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Citation
Ehi Iden, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
OSH Regulations and Enforcement: Comparison Between Low and Middle Income Countries and High- Income Countries,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 22, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2520.
OSH Regulations and Enforcement: Comparison Between Low and Middle Income Countries and High- Income Countries,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 22, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2520.