Occupational Safety and Health in Asia and the Pacific

The ILO works to foster a preventative safety and health culture by strengthening national occupational safety and health (OSH) systems. This includes labour inspections, occupational injury reporting, training, and national OSH campaigns and programmes.

Size/duration: 01 October 2008

Contact(s): Mr Tsuyoshi Kawakami

Every year more than 1.1 million people die from occupational accidents or work-related diseases in Asia and the Pacific. The poorest, least protected, least informed and least trained are the most affected. Women, children, disabled workers, migrant workers, and ethnic minorities are often involved.

Occupational accidents and diseases have an impact not only on the lives of individual workers, but also on the productivity and profitability of their enterprises and ultimately on the welfare of the whole society. Governments, workers and employers in Asia and the Pacific are increasing their efforts to prevent accidents and diseases at the workplace. The ILO works with them to strengthen national occupational safety and health (OSH) systems, including labour inspections, occupational injury reporting, training and information, and national OSH campaigns.

The ILO also assists countries with developing and implementing their strategic National OSH Programmes, to create a preventative safety and health culture and reach more workers, including migrants and those in the informal economy. The ILO also works together with the government, workers’ and employers’ organizations to promote research, information dissemination, and practical training activities.

If work is to be decent, it must be safe. Improving safety and health at work continues to be a key element in realizing the goals of the Asian Decent Work Decade.

National OSH programmes, profiles and policy documents

Training programmes and materials

Participatory Action-Oriented Training (PAOT): is a practical method to support workplace initiatives based on self-help voluntary actions.
Work Improvement for Migrant Workers and their Employers (WIMWE): Action manual for improving safety, health and influenza preparedness for migrant workers, their employers and the workplace.
WARM: Work Adjustment for Recycling and Managing Waste Action manual for waste collectors and communities to promote their joint actions in improving safety, health and efficiency in waste collection and management
Developing the WIND training programme in Asia: Participatory approaches to improving safety, health and working conditions of farmers (Full): This book will give an insight into participatory approaches for those who plan to apply the WIND programme and also for those who are interested in achieving local developments in a participatory manner.
Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development programme (WIND): training programme on safety, health and working conditions in agriculture : is a participatory, action-oriented training programme for improving farmers’ safety, health and working conditions.
Work Improvement in Small Enterprises (WISE): plays dynamic roles in helping employers and workers of small enterprises to improve their working conditions and productivity by using low-cost methodologies.
Work Improvement for Safe Home (WISH): action manual for improving safety, health and working conditions of home workers: responds to immediate needs of home workers and provides them with practical, easy-to-implement ideas to improve their safety, health and working conditions.
WISCON - Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites : action checklist : is to assist workers and supervisors in the small construction site to promote practical occupational safety and health improvements..

Prevention and Control of Pandemic influenza

Prevent and Prepare for Pandemics: Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium Enterprises

ILO key OSH instruments and materials

For further information please contact:

Ms Ingrid Christensen
Senior Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health
10th floor, United Nations Building, Rajdanmern Nok Avenue
Bangkok 10200
Thailand
Tel: + 662 288 1743
Fax: + 662 288 3058
Email

Tag: occupational safety and health

Regions and countries covered: Asia

Unit responsible: ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

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