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; Protocol on Employment and Labour -15-

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