BSN meeting Oslo, November 2005

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BSN meeting Oslo, November 2005

• Country report
• Latvia

Maija Eglite, Institute of Occupational and
Environmental Health Maija.Eglite_at_rsu.lv Oslo,
November, 2005
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Country report Latvia

• No major changes in OHS system as such
• New system (new requirements) for external
  occupational health and safety services from
  January 2006
• New legislation on EM fields coming 2006
• Revision of reporting and diagnosis system of
  occupational diseases coming 2006
• Other small changes in legal requirements

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Country report Latvia

• New strategy plan for OHS under development
  Institute included in working group
• Based on that National action plan will be
  developed with support from PHARE transition
  facility project
• Experts from institute included in all working
  groups for legislation development

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Country report Latvia

• PHARE Transition Facility project
• Hopefully starting december 2005 of January 2006
  for 12 months
• FIOH partners in Activity for developing of
  Institute of Occupational and Environmental
  health to National institute of occupational
  health and safety
• Some laboratory and IT equipment will be purchased

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Country report Latvia

• Based on the recommendations of project budgetary
  issues will be discussed in government and
  hopefully in National institute will be funded
  from 2007 for
• Information
• Trainings
• Research and measurements
• Expert support to Labor Ministry and State Labor
  Inspection

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Current problems

• Main problems Financing and consequently lack
  resources (everybody already works 10-12
  hours/day)
• Fixed funding only for training (12 persons)
• For national research 15 000 Euro in 2005 (2
  projects)
• Partners in several other small international
  projects (Workplace health promotion etc.)
  small amounts

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Current problems

• No funding for information activities
• Participation in expert groups not paid
• Support to PHARE project not paid
• If we got no state budget from 2007 there will
  be serious problems (staff leaving etc.)