Maija Eglite 1Darba un vides veselības institūts

BSN meeting Oslo, November 2005

Country report Latvia

Maija Eglite, Institute of Occupational and Environmental HealthMaija.Eglite@rsu.lvOslo, November, 2005

Maija Eglite 2Darba un vides veselības institūts

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

Maija Eglite 3Darba un vides veselības institūts

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

Maija Eglite 4Darba un vides veselības institūts

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

Maija Eglite 5Darba un vides veselības institūts

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

Maija Eglite 6Darba un vides veselības institūts

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

Maija Eglite 7Darba un vides veselības institūts

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.)