Policy architecture, regulatory framework development, and tripartite consultation for governments building national occupational health systems – designed to fit this jurisdiction, this economy, this labour market, rather than borrowed from elsewhere and resented locally.
Most national OSH systems are written before they are designed. A model framework arrives – often imported from a high-income jurisdiction – passes through consultation, is gazetted, and then collides with a labour inspectorate that has no inspectors, a compensation scheme that has no actuarial basis, and a workforce that has no voice in tripartite consultation.
The result is the gap our practice exists to close. The policy is in place; the prevention is not. An OSH system designed for the jurisdiction looks different from a system borrowed from elsewhere – it is built around the labour-market structure, the regulatory capacity, and the institutional realities of the country it is designed to serve.
We work directly with health ministries, labour ministries, mining regulators, and tripartite bodies to design national OSH systems that function – with credible enforcement architecture, surveillance infrastructure, and the regulatory feedback loop that makes prevention auditable.
An inspectorate that cannot enforce produces no prevention, no matter how comprehensive the law. We design within the realistic enforcement envelope – and grow it.
Workers, employers, and government each carry a piece of the prevention contract. Frameworks designed without all three at the table do not survive contact with the labour market.
A national OSH information system is the substrate of every credible prevention claim. Without it, the framework is rhetoric. We build it first.
Existing legislative inventory, regulatory hierarchy review, inspectorate baseline, and stakeholder mapping. The gap between paper and prevention is the brief.
Structured engagement with government, workers' and employers' organisations. The framework's legitimacy is set here, not after gazettal.
Primary legislation, secondary regulation, codes of practice, and the institutional architecture that operationalises them. Calibrated to enforcement capacity.
Inspector training, information-system roll-out, and tripartite governance. The system functions and improves after the practice withdraws.
Co-Convenor of the Developing Countries Coordination Group on ISO 45001 – aggregating and representing the OSH-standards interests of more than eighty developing nations inside the global standards-setting process at ISO/TC 283.
Technical lead on national OSH Guidelines for mining, healthcare and retail under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development – framework architecture, sector annexes, surveillance and reporting infrastructure, and tripartite consultation design.
Forthcoming book and accompanying institutional framework: National Occupational Safety & Health Information Systems in the Caribbean – Institutional Framework and Implementation Guide. Built on a decade of regional OSH advisory work under CARICOM expert roster status.
A national OSH system is not a policy document. It is an institution that has to function on a Tuesday morning in every workplace it covers.
Every national OSH engagement begins with a 45-minute consultation. We discuss the labour-market structure, the existing legislative inventory, and what a functioning prevention system would look like in your country.
