Key Provisions / Thematic Areas

The objects of this Act are

1. To promote, at the highest standard, the physical, mental and social wellbeing of workers;     
2. to protect persons present at a workplace against risks and hazards to health or safety arising out of the activities of workplaces and persons at work;
3. to protect the general public from risks and hazards to safety and health arising out of, or in connection with, the activities of persons at work;
4. to ensure the adaptation of work to the physiological and psychological  needs of persons at work thereby protecting the persons from accidents, injury and illness;
5. to provide for consultation and cooperation between employers and employees, and to promote  the achievement of the objectives of this Act;
6. to promote development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation  of specific workplace safety and health programmes at enterprise levels and through tripartite or bipartite arrangements;
7. to provide a national system and programme that allows for the introduction of progressively higher standards of occupational safety and health that takes into account changes in technology and work practices.

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