Occupational safety and health country profile: Papua New Guinea
International labour standards
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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.).
Laws and regulations
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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
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Responsible authorities
Statistics
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ILOSTAT
Occupational injuries
Database of labour statistics
Contains annual data collected through the ILO yearly questionnaire, which covers a wide range of topics including OSH indicators.
Technical cooperation
South South Cooperation Initiatives in the Pacific In April 2011, the Governments of Fiji and Papua New Guinea (PNG) entered into a landmark technical cooperation program. This program was intended to improve the standards and practices in the workplace in relation to occupational safety and health (OSH). Fiji would assist PNG in reviewing and updating its OSH legislation, systems, structures, and capacities. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between these two countries to make use of Fiji’s longer term expertise in this area and provide to PNG training and other capacity building activities to improve OSH legislation and compliance. The role of the ILO was to facilitate the discussions between the two governments. As a result of sharing between the two countries, PNG hoped to develop:
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