Occupational safety and health country profile: Lithuania

International labour standards

  1. NORMLEX

    Ratification of ILO conventions

    Database on international labour standards

    Provides access to the latest information on ILO international labour standards on OSH (such as ratification information, reporting requirements, comments of the ILO's supervisory bodies, etc.).

Policies and programmes

  1. 2009-2012

    National strategy

    Source: EU-OSHA

    Aims at the reduction of the incidence rate of serious and fatal accidents at work by improving the legal and organizational OSH framework which ensures work quality and productivity.

  2. 2008

    OSH in the Northern Dimension Area

    Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Russian Federation

Laws and regulations

  1. Main laws

    OSH is regulated by the Labour Code, the Law on Safety and Health at Work, other laws, and legislation adopted by Government regulations and orders of the ministers.

  2. NATLEX

    National legislation

    National labour legislation database

    Includes abstracts of OSH legislation and citation information. Full text of laws or a relevant source is linked to the records, when available.

Authorities and bodies

  1. Responsible authorities

    Safety and health at work

Statistics

  1. ILOSTAT

    Occupational injuries

    Database of labour statistics

    Contains annual data collected mainly through the ILO yearly questionnaire. It covers a wide range of topics including occupational injuries.