Events

August 2014

1. 

   XX Congress on Safety and Health at Work: "Sharing a Vision for Sustainable Prevention"

   24 - 27 August 2014, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

   The World Congress, organized every three years since 1955, provides a forum for the exchange of knowledge, practices and experiences for all occupational safety and health specialists, employers and managers, trade unions, public administration, insurance and social security professionals, manufacturers and importers, as well as anyone with an interest in safety and health at work.

October 2013

1. 

   National Governance of Occupational Safety and health

   14 - 25 October 2013, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

   The general objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of planning, developing and governing the national efforts to improve the OSH.

2. 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians

   2 - 11 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

   The 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians has been convened by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office to take place on 2-11 October 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conference will consider for adoption revised draft standards of labour force and work statistics, including a set of measures of labour underutilization to supplement the unemployment rate. If adopted, the revised statistical standards will update the resolution of statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment adopted by the 13th ICLS (1982), and related guidelines.

3. 

   Master in Occupational Safety and Health

   1 October 2013 - 30 September 2014, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

   Public and private sector organizations throughout the world are increasingly concerned with improving occupational safety and health (OSH). In both developed and developing countries, the rapid pace of technological change, combined with the persistence of unsafe or environmentally threatening working conditions, has served to focus attention on the need to create a safe, healthy working environment and to promote a new safety culture at the workplace.

September 2013

1. Meeting of Experts to Adopt Guidelines on the Training of Ships’ Cooks

   23 - 27 September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

   A Meeting of Experts will be held with the purpose of reviewing an initial draft and adopting guidelines for ships’ cooks.

2. 

   The employment injury schemes and the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases

   9 - 20 September 2013, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

   The general objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of employment injury institutions for the management of the occupational accidents and diseases and the promotion of the prevention approach on occupational safety and health.

July 2013

1. ILO High-Level Panel on Skills for Competitiveness

   9 - 9 July 2013, Room W, World Trade Organization, Geneva

   The ILO will host a high-level side event on "Skills for Competitiveness" at the WTO Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade from on Tuesday 9 July in Geneva. The event will provide an opportunity to share research findings and policy approaches on the role of skills development in translating trade openness into sustainable growth of productive and decent work.

2. 3rd Conference on Regulating for Decent Work: Regulating for Equitable and Job‐Rich Growth (RDW), 3-5 July 2013

   3 - 5 July 2013, Geneva

   The 2013 RDW Conference will centre on the role of labour market regulation when job creation is the paramount objective. Papers are invited to address labour market regulation's ideal post‐crisis form, with a special focus on four thematic issues: (a) Comparing and evaluating labour regulation systems; (b) regulating informal work; (c) industrial and employment relations for inclusive growth; (d) new patterns of segmentation and new challenges for promoting inclusive labour markets.

3. 

   TACKLE end of project global stakeholders workshop

   2 - 3 July 2013, Brussels

   'TACKLE', Tackling child labour through education, is a joint project of the European Commission and the ILO with the support of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). Launched in 2008, TACKLE aims at fighting child labour in 12 countries. An end of project global workshop takes place in Brussels on 2 and 3 July 2013.

June 2013

1. Academy on Youth Development - Supporting Effective Youth Development Policies and Programmes

   24 June - 5 July 2013, Turin, Italy

   The International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO) is pleased to announce the first edition of the "Academy on Youth Development” which has been organised with the support of the International Labour Office and other internationally active organizations.