Southern African Development Community
(c)
the organisation of occupational safety and health shall be on the basis of
tripartite and bipartite cooperation and the participation of all parties at
national and enterprise levels;
(d)
workers have the right to information on workplace hazards and the
procedures being taken to address them and to appropriate safety and
health training during paid working time; and
(e)
workers have the right to stop work that they reasonably believe poses risk
to their safety, health or physical well-being in accordance with ILO
Convention No. 155.
s.
State Parties shall ensure that where use is made of a list of occupational-related
diseases, the range of diseases covered shall at least be in accordance with the
list of diseases contained in the most recent ILO Convention on occupational
health and safety.
6.
Each State Party shall, in consultation with the most representative organisations
of employers and workers, periodically consider what measures should be taken
in order to ratify relevant occupational safety and health Conventions of the ILO.
ARTICLE 13
HEALTH CARE
1.
State Parties shall, having due regard to the means available, ensure that
adequate health care is available to all residents in accordance with the relevant
provisions of the SADC Health Protocol .
ARTICLE 14
RETIREMENT AND PROTECTION OF ELDERLY PERSONS
State Parties shall, use their best effort within available resources, to ensure that:
(a)
(b)
every worker in the Region shall at the time of retirement enjoy resources
affording him or her a decent standard of living, including equity in postemployment security schemes;
every worker who has reached retirement age but who is not entitled to a
pension or who does not have other means of subsistence shall be entitled to
adequate social assistance to cater specifically for basic needs including medical
care;
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