The Human Rights approach attempts to address issues of accountability at levels that range from that of the individual to those of the larger political and economic systems. The issues which such a document might address include non-discrimination, relationship to other human rights, accountability, the reght to organise, the right to organise, the right to appropriate health care, the right to complain, sovereignty over living environments, the right to information and education, the right to participation, the right to environmental monitoring, the right to emergency preparedness, the right to relief and compensation, the right to enforcement of safety laws, the right to effective legal representation, the right to fair procedures, and the right to hold organisations and states accountable. Derinirion Safery can be defined as a state in which hazards and conditions leading to physical, psychological, and material harm are controlled in order to preserve the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Safety is a dynamic state resulting from the interaction of human beings with their physical, social, cultural, technological, political, economic and organisational environment. The objective is to establish a permanent state of vigilance and develop the mechanisms to control dangers on a continucus basis.
Safety relates to various dimensions of physical, social and psychological well being.
The notion of safety as a Human Right is an important policy tool for injury control and safety promotion. It is a way to bring together the Injury Control community and the Human Rights community for collective action that can be more effective than separate communities or individuals acting alone. The individuals or organisations represented at this 5th World Confernece have much to contribute to developing a document elaborating the Right to Safety. D. A revised version of the charter should be presented to the WHO Executive Board in January 2001 so that it may be presented before the World Health Assembly in May 2001.