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| This site was designed and developed, and is maintained
by the Occupational Safety & Health Department computer
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| Background |
The Occupational Safety and
Health Department (OSHD) was established in the Ministry of
Labour to protect the safety and health of workers in Jamaica.
It is our mission to encourage, promote and facilitate an
adequate standard of Occupational Safety and Health for all
workers in Jamaica by: |
- The effective auditing of all operations under its supervision;
- Offering guidance and advice on safety and health issues;
- Providing timely and reliable statistics to all relevant
bodies (for example, Parliament, PIOJ and ILO) locally and
internationally, to which it reports.
- Creating a public awareness and appreciation of its role
and functions.
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| In its proactive approach,
the OSHD seeks to secure wellness of body, mind and spirit
of the workers by ensuring that they are provided with a safe
working environment. In addition, the Department seeks to
empower workers by educating them on the hazards with which
they work. We also advise the owners/ mangers of these establishments
on ways to ensure that the work place is safe. With the evolution
of work, the traditional methods used by the OSHD have not
been able to keep pace with the volume of information, nor
with the size, number, diversity or complexity of industrial
establishments. The net result is that the Department has
over time, not been able to adequately meet the demands placed
on it by workers, owner/managers and the International Labour
Organization (ILO). This is particularly chronic with regard
to providing information on workplace hazards. The Department
also foresees an increased demand for its advisory and technical
services with the imminent passage of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act when it will be required to supervise all branches
of economic activity, not just factories. The Department,
to address these concerns, has developed this website.
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| Purpose |
The main purposes of the site are: |
- to assist the department in effectively carrying out it's
mandate,
- creating a public awareness and appreciation of its role
and functions,
- make the public aware of the services it offers and how
to access them,
- provide timely and reliable statistics to all relevant
bodies and,
- help to make the department more customer-responsive,
current and relevant.
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| Updates |
- the news panel on the home page
will be refreshed whenever there is anything new and interesting
in the field of OSHD, or anything noteworthy happening in
the department. Please take the time to read it on each
visit.
- the statistics will
be refreshed monthly and
- the rest of the site on an ongoing daily basis, as needed,
and suggested by you, our clients.
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| Future
development |
| In the near future, the department plans to offer
the following services through this site. If you require a particular
service which is not listed below, please contact
us. |
- Provide facilities to facilitate online submission of
accident and annual reports.
- To develop and link to the website, a searchable database
of all chemicals in use in the factories in Jamaica, how
they are used, safe handling procedures, and ways in which
they impact their immediate work environment.
- To provide access to an electronic version of the Factories
Act, Building and Docks Regulations.
- Provide the public with a live link to our databases,
to enable them accessing data real-time.
- To provide the factory managers with restricted access
to information stored by the department on their factories.
This information will include the factory’s registration
status, expiry date, application information, the inspector’s
last letter of recommendations sent to the managers, etc.
- To provide a help/ explanation facility, that will give
a layman’s interpretation of the law.
- To provide statistics on the breaches of the law and consequent
prosecutions.
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