Describe the program's most important achievements and lessons learned:
ACHIEVEMENTS:
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Considerably focusing and optimizing resources used in inspection processes.
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Avoiding discretionary actions of inspectors.
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Reducing inspections’ duration.
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Criteria unification for both inspectors and businesses.
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Protocols are the result of coordinated and inter-Secretariat work, since they take into account comments from various Mexican institutions, entities and factors of production, depending on the industry sector or field to which they refer.
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) provided its support.
LESSONS LEARNED:
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Specific knowledge of the real activity of industry fields and of applicable regulations at each work center.
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Legal certainty is provided to the productive sector that contributed to the development of each Protocol, by making it public and in the creation of visiting orders to such sector in any part of Mexico.
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Under the model of favoring voluntary compliance, Protocols are a tool to focus inspection visits on what is really applicable at work centers, and the liable party knows these contents in advance.
Describe the challenges of the program:
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Developing protocols for more sectors or industries at the national level.
Specify if the program has any internal and external evaluations, if applicable, include key findings:
Internal: No.
External: No.