News

September 2012

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   Safety at work

   ILO announces action plan to boost workplace safety in Pakistani factories

   17 September 2012

   ILO sets out a series of short and medium-term measures in response to the deaths of more than 260 workers in a garment factory in Karachi.

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   Pakistani factory fire highlights lack of workplace safety measures, says ILO

   12 September 2012

   More needs to be done to protect workers’ safety and health, the ILO says, as Pakistan mourns the deaths of hundreds of workers in a garment factory fire in Karachi.

August 2012

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   Working conditions

   South Africa could do more for miners, says ILO mining specialist

   24 August 2012

   The killings of more than 30 workers in the Marikana platinum mine have put the spotlight on working conditions in South Africa’s mining industry.

December 2010

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   ILO and EU to launch new project on improving safety and health at work

   02 December 2010

   Responding to a pressing need to improve the safety and health of workers, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the European Union are launching a new project aimed at reducing occupational accidents and diseases in six countries in Eastern Europe (Ukraine and Moldova), Africa (Zambia and Malawi) and Central America (Honduras and Nicaragua).

May 2009

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   Influenza A

   ILO signals potential social and economic consequences for workers and their families from actions taken to address the influenza A(H1N1) virus

   29 May 2009

   Since the influenza A(H1N1) outbreak has been announced 53 countries have officially reported 1reported 15,510 cases of human infection including 99 deaths (as of 06:00 GMT, 29 May 2009). The speed with which the outbreak has spread and the risk of a pandemic certainly merit the implementation of all measures necessary to protect the health of the world’s population.

July 2008

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   World Congress calls for new global partnership to improve work safety

   02 July 2008

   The XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work concluded with calls for a new global partnership to strengthen safety and health in the workplace, and to reinforce efforts to reduce fatalities and illness.

June 2008

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   XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work opens in Seoul: ILO report highlights need for safer workplaces

   29 June 2008

   The International Labour Office has released a new report “Beyond deaths and injuries: The ILO’s role in promoting safe and healthy jobs”, at the XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work. The Congress, which takes place through 2 July, is the largest global event on occupational safety and health, gathering some 4,000 representatives from more than 100 countries.

April 2008

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   ILO and US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health agree to cooperate on expanding safety and health at work

   23 April 2008

   The Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment (SafeWork) of the International Labour Office (ILO) and the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) today signed an agreement aimed at expanding safety and health in the workplace.

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   Luxembourg ratifies 20 ILO Instruments including 15 in the field of occupational safety and health

   08 April 2008

   The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has ratified 20 Instruments of the International Labour Organization – 18 conventions and 2 protocols, most of which are related to occupational safety and health. A combined ratification of such magnitude is relatively rare in the history of the ILO. As a result, Luxembourg has now ratified a hundred ILO Instruments.

March 2008

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   ILO Convention No. 187 on occupational safety and health to come into force following ratification by the Republic of Korea

   13 March 2008

   The Republic of Korea has recently ratified a new ILO Convention, the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health, Convention No. 187. This ratification will bring this important international labour standard designed to promote a “preventive safety and health culture” into force in the next 12 months.