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Health and life at work – A basic human right
The World Day for Safety and Health at Work (OSH Day) is an international  campaign initiated by the ILO to promote safe, healthy and decent work. Celebrated on April 28th, it aims to reduce the incidence of work-related accidents and diseases each year, including HIV/AIDS. The theme for the OSH Day in 2009 is: Health and life at work – A basic human right. OSH day stresses the prevention of occupational accidents and disease, and the protection of workers' health and safety.
For this year's celebration in Moldova the ILO National Coordinator, the ILO/GTZ HIV/AIDS project team in Moldova, together with the National Confederation of Trade Unions and Government representatives, organized two roundtables to discuss issues related to the recently adopted Occupational Safety and Health Law and its implementation; inform workers about health protection at work, and encourage employers to include HIV/AIDS prevention into existing occupational health and safety programmes. » more
Serbia marked together the ILO's 90th Anniversary and the April 28 in Belgrade by a Tripartite Celebration sharing of Best Practices and ILO 90/OSH Day Posters in Belgrade Public Transport.
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ILO posters in a bus of Belgrade |
From 15-30 April posters marking the 90th Anniversary of the ILO and the World Day for Occupational Safety and Health appeared in trams, buses and trolleys of the public transport system of the City of Belgrade, which serves 1 million passengers daily.
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| ILO Film |
| Fully fit at work |
Film about the advantages of employing persons with disabilities. As this ILO film (Fully Fit at Work) shows, not only may people with disabilities be more productive, they may actually be more skilled in some jobs than non-disabled people. Produced for the ILO by the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
Watch the film online in Polish with English subtitles. Duration: 21 min 11 sec
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Press release in English and
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