Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985 (No. 161) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1993)

1. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the Government in its report.

2. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that the Public Health Office of the Slovak Republic is about to draft a decree laying down details and requirements on occupational health services and that this draft decree is an executing regulation of Act No. 330/1996, Collection of Laws on Safety and Protection of Health at Work. Such a decree is expected to become effective in 2005. The Committee hopes that the abovementioned decree will be adopted soon and that it will give effect to all substantive provisions of the Convention. The Committee hopes in particular that the decree will prescribe measures designed for the determination of the methods of organization of occupational health services (Article 7 of the Convention); for the establishment of the multidisciplinary nature of occupational health services and cooperation between the latter and other services in the undertaking, as well as their cooperation with other bodies concerned with the provision of the health services (Article 9), of full professional independence of the personnel providing occupational health services (Article 10); for the establishment of the obligation of the competent authority to determine the qualification required for the personnel providing occupational health services (Article 11), of the obligation of the employer and workers to inform occupational health services of any known factors and any suspected factors in the working environment which may affect the workers’ health (Article 14), of the requirement to inform occupational health services of occurrences of illness and absence from work for health reasons (Article 15); for the determination of the authority or authorities responsible both for supervising the operation of and for advising occupational health services (Article 16).

3. Part VI of the report form. Practical application. The Committee requests the Government to provide information about the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice with particular attention to statistical data, disaggregated by sex if possible, concerning the activities of occupational health services.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2006.]