Local service provider/licensed company to undertake Occupational Safety and Health audit at the workplace for selected companies
Reference: RFQ/ECA30/2021/04101
Beneficiary countries: Turkey
Published on: 28-Oct-2021
Deadline on: 05-Nov-2021 17:30 (GMT 3.00) Baghdad, Riyadh, Moscow, St. Petersburg
Opportunity Background
Background
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development; human rights; as well as humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.
A gender sensitive approach recognizes that because of the different jobs women and men do, their different societal roles, the expectations, and responsibilities they have, women and men may be exposed to different physical and psychological risks at the workplace, thus requiring differing control measures.
This approach also improves the understanding that the sexual division of labour, biological differences, employment patterns, social roles and social structures all contribute to gender-specific patterns of occupational hazards and risks.
Workplace violence, harassment or discrimination, whether based on sex, age, disability, religion or belief, racial or ethnic origin and sexual orientation may affect the safety and health of workers, and therefore have negative consequences for those affected, their families, their co-workers, their organisations, and society at large. It can also lead to situations of labour exploitation.
The proposed interventions will strengthen capacities of local companies to apply gender sensitive occupational Safety and Health policies and practices in their workplace and will be provided with improvement and capacity building plans.
In this direction and in order to acomplish above, UN Women Project Office in Kosovo is seeking to hire an experienced licenced company to provide services described in this notice.
Opportunity Structure
Objectives of the assignment
The objective of the assignment is to undertake an occupational safety audit at the workplace of selected companies (criteria for selection of companies as subject to audit) and implementation of breastfeeding and maternity leave rights older women, disabled persons, those working longer hours, or with heavy machinery, work commuting accidents, and exposure to occupational diseases and hazardous substances, by the public and private sector using the UN Women approach on safe public spaces and promotion of workplaces for All.
Under the direct supervision of the UN Women Project Managers and supervision of UN Women Head of Office, and in direct collaboration with partners and collaborators, the Company perform the following:
The local companys to provide technical support, logistical arrangements and organisation of the activites as outlined below during the period November 10, 2020 – December 20, 2021 in close consultation with Program Manager and under the supervison of the Head of Office:
- Provide a set of criteria for selection of companies subject to audit to serve as a baseline for OSH audit – primary focus on gender component;
- Develop an OSH audit plan as per the ILO – OSH 2001 guidelines and local legal framework on OSH/ gender component;
- Conduct initial desk review /analysis of OSH measures in place and potential gaps: Examine documents relating to plans, programmes, processes, policies, procedures, rules, records, statistics and data;
- Conduct/facilitate participatory interview with employees at higher, middle and lower management on their experiences related to OSH;
- Identify weaknesses, challenges (if any) and potential gaps of the occupational safety and health policies and practices of the organisation/company/ies and formulate a detailed improvement plan including capacity building/training on OSH for the management of the organisations/company/ies subject to the OSH audit;
- Provide final audit report with special section on Covid-19 arrangements included.
Competitive Scope
Submission Guidelines
Your submission should include the following:
- a) Quotation Submission Form (Online Form)
- b) Technical and Financial Offer (to be uploaded using the format provided)
- c) CVs of Key Personnel (where applicable, to be uploaded using the format provided)
Other Forms to be Submitted by the Vendor awarded the contract at the time of contract signature:
- • Voluntary Agreement to Promote Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (using the standard format provided)
If you are interested in submitting a quotation in response to this RFQ, please prepare your quotation in accordance with the requirements and procedure as set out in this RFQ and submit it by the deadline for submission of quotations set out in the tender notice. Should you require further clarifications, kindly communicate with UN Women procuring entity through the “Correspondence” function in the UN Women E-Procurement Portal.