Social cooperation
Article 58
1. With regard to health and safety, the Parties shall develop cooperation between them with the aim of improving inter alia the level of protection of the health and safety of workers. This cooperation shall include: — education and training on health and safety issues with specific attention to high risk sectors of activity, — development and promotion of preventive measures to combat work related diseases and other work-related ailments, — prevention of major accident hazards and the management of toxic chemicals, — research on developing information and understanding of the working environment and on the health and safety of workers. 2. With regard to employment, the cooperation shall include notably technical assistance for: — the optimisation of the labour market, — the modernisation of job-finding and careers advisory services, — the planning and management of restructuring programmes, — the encouragement of local employment development, — the exchange of information on the programmes of flexible employment, including those stimulating self-employment and promoting entrepreneurship. 3. The Parties shall pay special attention to cooperation in the sphere of social protection, including cooperation in planning and implementing social protection reforms in the Republic of Tajikistan. These reforms shall aim to develop in the Republic of Tajikistan methods of protection intrinsic to market economies and shall comprise all relevant forms of social protection.