IRAQ REPORTBAGHDAD GROUP

Iraq In General Iraq officially the Republic of Iraq is a country inWestern Asia, the capital of Iraq is Baghdad, borderedby Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to thesoutheast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to thesouthwest, and Syria to the west. The capital, andlargest city, is Baghdad. The main ethnic groups are
Arabs and Kurds; others include Assyrians, Turkmen,Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians.
Around 95% of the country's 36 million citizens areShia or Sunni Muslims, with Christianity, Yarsan,Yezidism, and Mandeanism also present. Iraq isdivided into 19 counties and the provinces in turn aredivided into districts and to other divisions of lesser
known aspects. The number of districts of Iraq's
judgment is 120.

 Theestimated number of Iraq's
population in 2016 of about 37,547,686
people, and the percentage of Arabs from
75% to 80% of the Iraqi people.
 Geographically, Total area: (437,072 sqkm) land area: (432,162 sq km) water:(4,910 km).
 Iraq's economy is entirely dependent on
the oil sector, where 95% of Iraq's total
income of hard currency.

The main industries in Iraq:
 Industry is divided Iraq into two main types:
 1. extractive industries.
 2. manufacturing industries:
 a. the food industry.
 b. textile and leather.
 c. the building materials industry.
 d. the chemical industry.
 e. basic metal and electrical industries.

Iraq/Gross domestic productGDP in approximately is 229.3 billion USD(2013), that is the last statistical fromthe center statistical organization.

illustrate OSH context inIraq:
 Is applied to the illustrate OSH context ofoccupational safety and health in Iraq throughthe National Center for Occupational Healthand Safety, which is the governmental
responsible for applying OSH. Through totake the lead in occupational safety and healthservices to the social protection of high quality
within a sustainable system and a just andcomprehensive an efficient and flexible.

The purpose of the National Centre for
Occupational Health and Safety..
with the support of the Occupational Safety
and Health's system Based on:  Contribute with relevant institutions in thecountry.
 compatibility with the needs of workers andprivate enterprises.
 securing equity and social justice.
 active participation in the social andeconomic development.

Occupational Safety and Health
Legislations..
1) LAWS
 Decision number 552/1981 concerning establishment of thenational center for occupational safety and health.
 New labor law was adopted in 2015 includes two chapters onOHS.

2) Law number 6/ 1988 National committee ofoccupational safety and health .

 Public health law number 89/1981.
 Environmental protection law number 3/1997.
 Employee′s health impairment law number 11/1999.
 Workers′ retirement and social security law number 39/1971
 Risk allowance law number 380/1989 .
 Law of ministry of labor and Social Affairs number 8/2006 .
 Instructions functions and divisions of the National Center

for Occupational Health and safety (3) of 2009

Regulations
 Occupational safety and health regulation number 22/1987.
 Chemical carcinogens regulation number 2/1984 .
 Asbestos regulation number 1/2002 .
 Aromatic benzene regulation number 6/1993 .
 Factory inspection regulation number 74/1968 .
 Pesticides regulation number 2/1990 .
 Chemical safety regulation number 4/1989.
 Ascral oil regulation number 6/1986.
 Vibration regulation number 7/1993.
 Occupational diseases regulation number 9/2000.
 Harmful and heavy duty jobs regulation number 14/1987.
 Child labor regulation number 19/1987.
 Occupational accident regulation number 10/2000.

Statistics showing injuries professional work thepublic and private sectors for the years (2008- 2015) as
below:
injuries in year
700
600
500
400
300
200
10002008‫ عدد االصابات‬332

2009
6102010
405

2011
305

2012
17920131732014
168

2015
289

Participants' duties:
The activities and functions of the basic center
include: Monitoring and Inspection.
 awareness, education and training.
 Medical surveillance.
 Consulting and research.

Goals of the our center involved with ..

 For workers: the provision of social services

for workers exposed to occupational
hazards, For companies: the protection of
the workforce and motivate them for greater
productivity
 For society: to participate in the social
security and economic development

Structure and system of our organization(the national center for occupation
health and safety), as shown in graphbellow:
Director Maneger of theNCOHS

Dep. of Awareness &Traning

Dep. of Planning &Fallowup

Dep. of Information

Dep. of Occupational
HealthDep. of Adminstrative
Servies

Dep. of Human Resoures

Dep. of Occupational
SafetyDep. of Laboratory

Awareness Division

Studies Division

Data base Division

Occupational Health
Consulting Division

Securities Adminstration
Division

Personal Division

Safety Cousuling &Professional test
Enginering Division

Pathological Analysis
Division

Traning Division

Planning Division

Information TechnologyDivision

Work Physiology

Services Division

Training DivisionInspection Division

Occupational Toxicology
Division

Fallowup Division

Statistics Division

Occupational Medicin
DovisionMaintenance Division

Archives Division

Evaluation of the Work
Environment Division

Analysis ofEnvironmental of work
Place Sample Division

Division ofGovernmantal Affairs

Division of e‐governance

Date files & personaldivisionDep. of Financial

participants' duties:
 we are in Department of the Occupational Safety

conducted to inspection visits to all the economicactivities to follow-up the occupational health andsafety application and conditions in these activities.
there are also coordinate with the representatives ofall ministries. There are ongoing meetings with themand they are provided with publications and posters
continuously. Public works sectors having morecooperation with us to reflect statistics than theprivate works sectors. We confirm all work sectors tofill the special form of these statistics within our fieldvisits to these work sectors, also to sure identifying
types, causes to be addressed and not to be repeated.

the major challenges in carryingout of our duties, and how we cansolve it:1.

Inefficiency measuring devices pollutants work that the existing old environment
made the same read very limited, especially given that the sensors are used,ending the validity and unfit for work, so the solution to this problem is aphysical lab inauguration equipped with all appliances and technical equipment
are the calibration and maintenance setups where we hope to help us in this side.

2.

The shortage of human resources with a specialization in the field of occupationalsafety and health of engineers, technicians and inspectors, specialists in sanitation
work environment as a result of the lack of outcomes in higher education for theterms of reference of occupational safety that are at a high technical level and in
sufficient numbers to cover the business segments for the detection of pollutants
work and risks, and promote a culture of environment preventive safety in thecommunity, and this is what we achieved with the Ministry of Higher Educationand scientific research.

3.

Weak social culture to grasp the importance of preventive awareness andcommitment to the requirements of occupational health and safety in the workenvironment and that return class basis of the lack of media coverage, whichshows the importance of this subject and the negative effects resulting from it, As
we have introduced occupational safety in the curriculum vocabulary.

current overall setback of Iraqi
occupational safety and health management
 Although the history of the National Centre for

Occupational Health and Safety since 1981
that the reality of Occupational Safety and
Health did not live up to the required, as inother countries the level is due to thecircumstances faced by the country, but we did
not stand idly by and always strive to theadvancement of the Occupational Health andSafety in Iraq During this training program byyour agency and we hope to be a good and astrong start to build a professional health andsafety integrated.

Thank you