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Supported by Existing Guidelines:
ILO/WHO guidelines on health services and HIV/AIDS, 2005-
- Section 7: The purpose of these guidelines is to promote the sound management of HIV in health services, including the prevention of occupational exposure. Furthermore, the purpose is to ensure that health-care workers have decent, safe and healthy working conditions, while ensuring effective care that respects the needs and rights of patients especially those living with HIV. These guidelines rest on the basic principle that the process of policy development and implementation should be the result of consultation and collaboration between all concerned parties, based on social dialogue and including, to the extent possible, persons and workers living with HIV. They take a rights-based approach to HIV, as promoted by the Declaration of Commitment and the international community at large, expanding on ILO and WHO HIV and occupational safety and health instruments.
Section 15b: In the particular context of the health sector, government is, therefore, at the same time, a regulator, an enforcer of regulations, and an employer. It should ensure that these functions are kept separate in order to minimize conflicts of interest and protect the rights of workers adequately, especially where workers' organizations are not recognized. Governments, in collaboration with employers, workers and their representatives, and others with responsibilities for health services, should provide the relevant regulatory framework and, where necessary, revise labour laws and other legislation to include provisions that: (b) promote the implementation of a national system for occupational safety and health management in health services, including workplace regulations and guidelines aimed at achieving decent working conditions and a safe working environment that treats an HIV occupational exposure incident in a manner consistent with other occupational injuries.
Section 21: Prevention and control of occupational risks related to infectious diseases - including HIV, hepatitis and TB - are more likely to be achieved if considered together with other workplace hazards and risks in health services.
Global Plan of Action on workers' health, 2008-2017-
- Objective 1.9: Measures need to be taken to minimize the gaps between different groups of workers in terms of levels of risk and health status. Particular attention should be paid to high-risk sectors of economic activity, and to the underserved and vulnerable working populations, such as younger and older workers, persons with disabilities and migrant workers, taking account of gender aspects. Specific programmes should be established for the occupational health and safety of health-care workers.