National indicators for OSH

Introduction

In policy making, indicators are important for monitoring the status, identifying trends, and measuring progress against existing policy objectives and goals, including the functioning of OSH institutions. Indicators can also serve to monitor new policy initiatives. Finally, indicators may serve as a crystallisation point for discussions on new and emerging topics. Hence, they can play a key role in policy making, since they provide the input to justify policy evaluations, adjustments and improvements.  Indicators are essential to provide some feedback to policy makers, OSH institutions and their stakeholders and to compare national OSH policies…