GB.346/INS/3/3/Decision

Decision concerning the follow-up to the resolution on the inclusion of a safe and healthy working environment in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work

Record of decisions | 04 November 2022

The Governing Body decided to:

(a) place on the agenda of the 111th Session (2023) of the International Labour Conference an item concerning the adoption of a Convention and a Recommendation with a view to introducing amendments to specific provisions of 15 instruments, consequential to the inclusion of a safe and healthy working environment in paragraph 2 of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998) as amended in 2022, and invite the Office to circulate a succinct report to that effect, by 22 December 2022, including the proposed texts for the instruments;

(b) adopt the consequential amendments to the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) set forth in Appendix III to document GB.346/INS/3/3;

(c) include the two new fundamental Conventions,  the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155), and the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187), and their accompanying Recommendations, under the strategic objective of fundamental principles and rights at work for the purposes of future recurrent discussions;


(d) apply a three-year cycle to reports requested under article 22 of the Constitution for Conventions Nos 155 and 187, as from 2024;

(e) request the Office to submit to the Governing Body at its 347th Session (March 2023) proposals to adapt the current reporting arrangements under article 22 of the Constitution for Members that have ratified the new fundamental Conventions Nos 155 and 187 and a proposed report form for Members that have not ratified one or both Conventions under the follow-up to the 1998 Declaration;

(f) request the Office to prepare a document for its 347th Session (March 2023) containing proposals and a road map for the review of the Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health adopted at the 91st Session of the Conference and the promotion of a safe and healthy working environment as a new fundamental principle and right at work.

(GB.346/INS/3/3, paragraph 38, as amended by the Governing Body)