World Safety and Health at Work Day
Algeria has always attached particular importance to the preservation of human health and safety at work.
The growing importance of industrial activity, its diversity and the place it occupies in economic activity has been accompanied by a multiplication of risks likely to alter the physical integrity of human beings at work.
In order to preserve the workforce, the Algerian State has implemented:
- A legislative and regulatory system.
- An administration responsible for ensuring its application.
1 - The legislative and regulatory system
The legal support necessary for the action of the social partners and that of the public authorities has been strengthened:
In 1983, a Law relating to industrial accidents and occupational diseases was promulgated.
A law relating to occupational health, safety and medicine was promulgated on January 26, 1988 to address responses to the concerns of these three parties involved in the preservation of health and human health at work.
This Law established the organizational framework which must take care, at all levels of the world of work, of concerns relating to the health and safety of workers during the exercise of their professional activities.
2 - The administration responsible for ensuring its application
The strategy consisted of the establishment of state bodies to support the work of the labor inspectorate:
- The national institute for the prevention of occupational risks.
- The prevention organization in building and public works.
The overall concern aims to establish:
- The appropriate framework necessary for consultation between social partners and public authorities in this area, on the one hand
- intersectorality (involvement of all ministerial departments concerned by the prevention effort), accompanied by multidisciplinarity (involvement of various stakeholders drawing on diverse scientific knowledge), on the other hand;
With regard to social dialogue, it has been planned:
- At the national level, a national occupational health, safety and medicine council,
- At company level, a Health and Safety Commission.
All these actions are undertaken to reduce the bill which increases year after year, but above all to reduce human suffering resulting from work accidents and occupational illnesses.
The growing importance of industrial activity, its diversity and the place it occupies in economic activity has been accompanied by a multiplication of risks likely to alter the physical integrity of human beings at work.
In order to preserve the workforce, the Algerian State has implemented:
- A legislative and regulatory system.
- An administration responsible for ensuring its application.
1 - The legislative and regulatory system
The legal support necessary for the action of the social partners and that of the public authorities has been strengthened:
In 1983, a Law relating to industrial accidents and occupational diseases was promulgated.
A law relating to occupational health, safety and medicine was promulgated on January 26, 1988 to address responses to the concerns of these three parties involved in the preservation of health and human health at work.
This Law established the organizational framework which must take care, at all levels of the world of work, of concerns relating to the health and safety of workers during the exercise of their professional activities.
2 - The administration responsible for ensuring its application
The strategy consisted of the establishment of state bodies to support the work of the labor inspectorate:
- The national institute for the prevention of occupational risks.
- The prevention organization in building and public works.
The overall concern aims to establish:
- The appropriate framework necessary for consultation between social partners and public authorities in this area, on the one hand
- intersectorality (involvement of all ministerial departments concerned by the prevention effort), accompanied by multidisciplinarity (involvement of various stakeholders drawing on diverse scientific knowledge), on the other hand;
With regard to social dialogue, it has been planned:
- At the national level, a national occupational health, safety and medicine council,
- At company level, a Health and Safety Commission.
All these actions are undertaken to reduce the bill which increases year after year, but above all to reduce human suffering resulting from work accidents and occupational illnesses.