HOW IS A NATIONAL GHS IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY (NIS) DEVELOPED?
While each country may chose to implement the GHS in a manner suitable for its particular circumstances, the process of developing a national GHS implementation strategy comprises a number of considerations and activities. These can be generally described in the following steps: First, government, business and industry, and public interest and labour organisations from the four sectors of industrial workplaces, agriculture, transport and consumer products may find it helpful to create a national GHS coordination or implementation committee . Countries may find it useful to identify a lead institution as well as establish subcommittees based on the four sectors or additional cross sectoral issues such as legislation, awareness raising, emergency response, etc. Next, countries can collect information about their existing GHS infrastructure and activities and prepare a situation analysis . This situation analysis is used t
