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Workplace Safety Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Yeldan UN Mission
Description: NOTING the absence of UN legislation guaranteeing the safety of employees while in the workplace;
RESOLVED to establish a common standard of workplace safety in all UN nations;
BELIEVING that employees have the right to safe working conditions while at the workplace and that employers have a responsibility to provide a healthy and safe work environment;
DEFINING, for the purposes of this resolution:
- person as one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives, or any organized group of persons
- an employee as an individual who performs certain tasks for another person in return for financial or other compensation
- a workplace as any site at which the tasks employees are engaged to perform are carried out
- an employer as a person or persons engaging employees to perform certain tasks, excluding the law enforcement and military bodies of UN member nations;
the United Nations hereby,
ENACTS the following:
(1)Each employer shall make every reasonable effort to furnish a place of employment which is free from hazards that could cause death or serious physical harm to his employees and inform employees as fully as possible of potential hazards.
(2)Workplaces must be maintained in such a condition that employees will not be exposed to excessive danger.
(3)Every employer must ensure that regular inspections are made of all workplaces and work methods and practices, at intervals that will prevent the development of unsafe working conditions.
(4)Employers shall, where applicable, inform employees of any Personal Protective Equipment required. The minimum standard of PPE is that which will prevent injury or harm to the employee considering all known or anticipated hazards within the specific workplace. All employees must provide or be provided with, and be required to use, the minimum standard of PPE. Employers shall also provide formal training in the use of PPE and in safe operational procedures for all employees, plus updates whenever significant new procedures are introduced.
(5)The employer must ensure that each tool, machine and piece of equipment in the workplace is capable of safely performing the functions for which it is used and operated.
(6)Employers shall ensure that each employee complies with all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to this Act which are applicable to the employee's own actions and conduct.
(7)Employers must not knowingly permit employees to enter or remain at the workplace while the employee's ability to work safely is so notably impaired as to endanger the employee and/or anyone else, or diminish their ability to operate machinery safely.
(8)Employers shall ensure that employees do not engage in any inappropriate activity or behavior at a workplace that might create or constitute a hazard to themselves or to any other person.
(9)All UN member nations are encouraged to enact workplace safety legislation at the national level that would further expand on the concepts embodied within this act. Nothing in this legislation shall be taken as forcing or inducing nations to lower existing national standards of workplace safety.
(10)Each UN member nation shall ensure that within it there exist one or more adequately funded governmental bodies that can inspect work sites and ensure compliance with this act throughout its territory.
Co-Authored by UNOG |
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From the desk of Vanessa Cappaverde:
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To the delegates of Atlantian Oceania who deal with UN matters:
Currently, the proposal: Workplace Safety Act, is on the floor of the United Nations for a vote. The text of the proposal is attached (OOC: look at the first post), and I await your decision on it, before casting my vote on behalf of the region.
Regarding this proposal, It outlines a reasonable set of procedures to ensure the safety of employees in our nations, without placing undue stress, and little additional red tape, if any at all, to the government to enforce any standards. With this in mind, I recommend that you all support this resolution.
Thank You for your time.
Yours,
Vanessa
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Health and Safety is good, 'mkay? |
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Get me my hard hat, Joan....
FOR. |
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Krytenia |
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Now With Added Bekk! |
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Abstain for me (though I voted no above, I changed my mind). 'Tis a blatant hindrance to the capitalizt machine, but yet, if everyone's injured, productivity dives anyway.
This post has been edited by Pacitalia on Feb 16 2006, 01:46 PM |
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The best place on earth. |
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| QUOTE (Pacitalia @ Feb 16 2006, 07:45 PM) | | Abstain for me (though I voted no above, I changed my mind). 'Tis a blatant hindrance to the capitalizt machine, but yet, if everyone's injured, productivity dives anyway. |
Have you actually done any votes in here so far that didn't require modifying in between the point you clicked 'vote' and the point you clicked 'reply'? Ahh, a good laugh..
Lord Mackey votes yes, btw. |
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Seeing as how democracies are supposed to care for the people that they govern, Lamoni votes FOR . |
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Lamoni |
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Democratic Maniac |
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| QUOTE (Pacitalia @ Feb 16 2006, 02:45 PM) | | Abstain for me (though I voted no above, I changed my mind). 'Tis a blatant hindrance to the capitalizt machine, but yet, if everyone's injured, productivity dives anyway. |
Do I need to create a "Voting for Newbs" thread for ya?  In case you are concerned about missing the deadline, the earliest I will close the vote is at midnight EST going into the day of the deadline, so if you want to bring up a point without voting, or simply wait til the end to cast your vote in here, please feel free to do so. |
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With a vote of 4-0-1 *glares at the Pacitalian delegate*, Legalese shall vote IN FAVOR of the Workplace Safety Act. The rest of the UN appears to be following suit, with the Ayes holding a lead of over 4,000 votes. |
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And, the final tally:
For: 9,792
Against: 4,965
The Workplace Safety Act has passed, and shall go into effect shortly. |
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