This good practice aims to streamline the administrative procedures related to occupational risks and disability in accordance within the following legal framework:

• the respect of human rights, the pro homine principle and gender diversity (articles 1, 2 and 3);
• recognizing occupational risks: reducing the process from 20 to 5 days (article 19);
• speeding up procedures (articles 19, 25, 29, 30, 38, 46, 47, 48, 65 and 68);
• guidelines for occupational physicians (articles 30 and 108);
• applying within 7 days (max) humanitarian solutions in cases of terminal illness or where workers’ lives are at risk (articles 52 (3) and 63 (4));
• recognizing studies produced outside the Institute by other government health institutions or individuals (articles 20 VII, 37 (3), 52 (2) and 63 (2));
• recognizing as a risk the forced disappearance of civil servants (articles 20 IX and 104 (d));
• avoiding conflict of interests (articles 101 V (d) and 106 V (c));
• the Committee for Occupational Medicine and regional subcommittees as new structures (articles 100 and 107).