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The ILO has in 2003 declared 28 April the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, focusing international attention on the magnitude of the problem and how promoting and creating a safety and health culture can help to reduce the number of work-related deaths each year. The trade union movement has organized the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers worldwide since 1996 coordinated by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). |
World Day 28 April 2012
The theme for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 28 April 2012 will be:
Green jobs: promoting safety and health in a green economy
The World OSH Day report will be produced in March.
We wish you all the best in your preparation for this World Day and look forward to hearing about your activities.
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World Day 28 April 2011
The theme for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 28 April 2011 was:
OSH management system: A tool for continual improvement
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World Day 28 April 2010
The theme for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) on 28 April 2010 was:
Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work
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World Day 28 April 2009
The theme for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) on 28 April 2009 was:
Health and life at work: a basic human right
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World Day 28 April 2008
The theme for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work organized by the International Labour Office (ILO) on 28 April 2008 was:
Managing Risk in the Work Environment
Slogan: My life, my work, my safe work.
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World Day 28 April 2007
Safe and healthy workplaces - Making decent work a reality
Safe work is at the heart of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. It is essential to achieving all four of the ILO’s strategic objectives. Many of the international standards created since the ILO was founded in 1919 address issues related to occupational safety and health. Work can only be decent if it is safe and healthy. Occupational safety and health falls squarely into the category of social protection. And successful social dialogue is one of the key tools in making work safe and healthy.
The ILO created a new tool to contribute to achieving safe and decent work. The Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187) was adopted by the most recent International Labour Conference. As a framework Convention, it is designed to provide for a coherent and systematic treatment of occupational safety and health. The Promotional Framework may also serve to promote recognition of existing Conventions.
The new Convention requires member States to promote continuous improvement of occupational safety and health in order to prevent occupational injuries, diseases and deaths. It foresees three main tools to achieve this aim:
- 1. a national policy;
- 2. a national system;
- 3. a national programme.
According to the Convention, the national policy should serve to promote a safe and healthy working environment. Its delivery is ensured by an infrastructure known as the national system for occupational safety and health. The system should consist of institutional mechanisms, such as laws, regulations and responsible authorities, as well as activities such as the provision of both tripartite and technical information and advice, training and education, occupational health services, research, and the collection of data on accidents and diseases. Against this background, a national programme should be developed, consisting of a predetermined time frame, priorities and means of action formulated to improve occupational safety and health, and crucially some means of assessing progress.
The Office hopes to see many ratifications of this framework convention, and 28 April presents a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the new instrument and to promote its ratification.
Last year over 100 countries celebrated World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Events ranged from speeches held by leaders from government, employers' organisations and trade unions to exhibitions focusing on occupational safety and health and displays of traditional dancing. There were also podium discussions and workshops and extensive media coverage. For more information see the web site
ILO Subregional Office prepared a handbook “Recommendations for organizer of celebration of World Day for Safety and Health at Work” that contains practical recommendations and necessary information.
Recommendation for World Day 2007 (in Russian) (PDF 340 Kb)
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World Day 28 April 2006
On World Day 2006, governments, employers' and workers' organizations are encouraged to conduct awareness-raising activities within their areas of influence on the theme of accident and ill-health prevention. Meanwhile, everyone engaged in the world of work is encouraged to consider their working practices and to identify whether preventative action could avoid injuries and ill health, not only on 28 April but throughout the year.
We invite you to join with us in promoting this important day.
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World Day 28 April 2005
On 28 April, 2005, the ILO will for the third time observe the World Day, highlighting a safety culture, especially in construction. ILO has prepared an information package to help countries organize events and otherwise raise awareness of the World Day 2005 locally.
The following products are made available in Russian at the SRO Moscow web site in the months before the Day. English material is available at www.ilo.org/safework:
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World Day 28 April 2004
On 28 April, 2004, the ILO will for the second time observe the World Day, highlighting prevention and a safety culture. In 2003, the World Day was celebrated in no fewer than 50 countries worldwide. ILO is preparing an information package to help countries organize events and otherwise raise awareness of the World Day 2004 locally.
The following products are made available in Russian at the SRO Moscow web site in the months before the Day. English material is available at www.ilo.org/safework.
Safe work – safety culture
What can I do to promote the World Day?
In the previous years, countries have organised tri-partite (government, workers and employers):
- panel discussions with high-ranking decision makers and safety specialists
- seminars and conferences
- exhibitions
- round table discussions
- radio and television interviews; discussion programmes
- tours to enterprises
- drama and performances
The World Day has also been linked with promotion and presentation of new safety legislation or regulation, safety programmes or safety campaigns. The sky is the limit.
World Day 2004 posters (courtesy Rodger Reid)
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World Day 28 April 2003
According to ILO estimates, each year two million men and women die from work-related diseases and accidents - a death toll averaging some 5,000 workers a day. Globalization is affecting occupational safety and health in a variety of ways, some positive, some negative. A strong safety and health culture in all enterprises is a key step towards both preventing occupational deaths and diseases and tackling related effects of globalization.
The ILO World Day for Safety and Health is bringing tripartite strength to the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide by the trade union movement since 1996 and coordinated by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is intended to focus international attention on the magnitude of the problem and how promoting and creating a safety and health culture can help to reduce the number of work-related deaths each year. Because decent work is safe work.
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