Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985 (No. 161) - Colombia (Ratification: 2001)

The Committee notes the Government’s reports. It requests the Government to provide with its next report information on the following points:

Article 2 – the measures adopted for periodical review of the coherent national policy on occupational health services;

Article 3, paragraph 1 – the manner in which is ensured that occupational health services are developed for all workers;

Article 5 – the detailed description of the functions of occupational health services;

Article 9, paragraph 1 – the information on measures ensuring the multidisciplinary nature of the occupational health services;

Articles 10 to 12 – the measures ensuring the professional independence of personnel of occupational health services; the surveillance (free of charge) of workers’ health; the information of workers of health hazards at work;

Article 14 – the measures ensuring the information of occupational health services on known and suspected factors which may affect the workers’ health;

Part V of the report form – information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice supplying extracts from inspection reports and, where such statistics exist, information on the number of workers covered by the measures giving effect to the Convention, disaggregated by sex, if available, the number and nature of infringements reported, etc.