Southern African Development Community
4.
(c)
adequately integrates sufficient preventive and reintegrative measures,
including measures aimed at integrating and reintegrating workers into the
labour force;
(d)
encompasses co-ordinated formal and non-formal types and direct and
indirect forms of social support; and
(e)
promotes complementarities between social security and economic
development policies.
State Parties shall encourage and regulate private and public sector participation,
with regard to the provision and management of social insurance, as well as the
payment of social insurance benefits.
ARTICLE 12
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
1.
Every worker, including the self-employed, has a right to a safe and healthy
working environment.
2.
State Parties shall take all reasonable, practicable steps towards achieving
progressively a safe and healthy working environment through a national system
and national programmes on occupational safety and health, in accordance with
ILO Conventions on occupational health and safety.
3.
State Parties shall adopt measures to ensure that workers have the right to
services that provide for the prevention, recognition, detection and compensation
of work-related illness or injury including emergency cases, with rehabilitation
and job security after injury and adequate compensation appropriately adjusted
from time to time.
4.
State Parties shall ensure that:
(a)
all modalities of disablement are covered, irrespective of whether the
disablement occurs in the formal or informal sector;
(b)
a preventive safety and health culture based on a systems approach for
the progressive improvement of Occupational Safety and Health
performance is promoted;
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