Article 512-A Federal Labor Law

With the purpose of collaborating in the design of the national policy on safety, health and work environment, proposing reforms and additions to the regulation and to the Mexican official standards on the matter, as well as studying and recommending preventive measures to reduce risks in the work centers, the National Consultative Commission on Safety and Health at Work shall be organized.

Said commission shall be composed of representatives of the Ministries of Labor and Social Welfare; of Health; of the Interior, and of Environment and Natural Resources, of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), as well as by those designated by those national organizations of employees and of employers that the head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare convenes, who shall have the character of President of the said Commission.

The Commission must maintain permanent communication with the civil protection authorities, in order to design the actions that contribute to reduce or eliminate the loss of lives, the impact on the productive plant, the destruction of material goods, the damage to nature and the interruption of the essential functions of society, in the eventuality of a disaster caused by natural or human agents.