The report should as far as possible be submitted by E-mail to the address social.charter@coe.int and a diskette in Word format should be appended. If this is not possible, the Contracting Parties are requested to submit their reports in five copies and the appendices in two copies.

CONTRACTING PARTIES ARE REQUESTED:

..............................as far as first reports are concerned:

..............................to reply to all questions appearing in this Form;

..............................as far as subsequent reports are concerned:

..............................to update the information given in the previous report.

The Secretariat is invited to distribute with this Form a working document - that will be regularly updated - indicating the provisions of the United Nations, the ILO, the WHO, the European Union and the Council of Europe corresponding to the different articles of the Charter and a summary presentation of the different control mechanisms.


ARTICLE 3:    THE RIGHT TO SAFE AND HEALTHY WORKING CONDITIONS

ARTICLE 3 PARA. 1

"With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to safe and healthy working conditions, the Contracting Parties undertake:

to issue safety and health regulations;"

Question A

Please list the principal legislative or administrative provisions issued in order to protect the physical and mental health and the safety of workers, indicating clearly:

their material scope of application (risks covered and the preventive and protective measures provided for), and their personal scope of application (whatever their legal status - employees or not - and whatever their sector of activity, including home workers and domestic staff).

Please specify the rules adopted to ensure that workers under atypical employment contracts enjoy the same level of protection as other workers in an enterprise.

Question B

Please indicate the special measures taken to protect the health and safety of workers engaged in dangerous or unhealthy work.

ARTICLE 3 PARA. 2

"With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to safe and healthy working conditions, the Contracting Parties undertake:

to provide for the enforcement of such regulations by measures of supervision;"

Question A

Please indicate the methods applied by the Labour Inspection to enforce health and safety regulations and please also give information, inter alia, statistical, on:

a. the places of work, including the home, subjected to the control of the Labour Inspection, indicating the categories of enterprises exempted from this control;
b. the number of control visits carried out;
c. the proportion of workers covered by these visits.



Question B

Please describe the system of civil and penal sanctions guaranteeing the application of health and safety regulations and also provide information on violations committed:

the number of violations;
the sectors in which they have been identified;
the action, including judicial, taken in this respect.

Question C

Please provide statistical information on occupational accidents, including fatal accidents, and on occupational diseases by sectors of activity specifying what proportion of the labour force is covered by the statistics. Please describe also the preventive measures taken in each sector.

ARTICLE 3 PARA. 3

"With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to safe and healthy working conditions, the Contracting Parties undertake:

to consult, as appropriate, employers' and workers' organisations on measures intended to improve industrial safety and health."

Please indicate if consultations with workers' and employers' organisations are provided for in this connection by law, if they take place in practice and at what level (national, regional, at the sectoral or enterprise level).

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