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World Day for Safety and Health at Work
The ILO celebrates the World Day for Safety and Health at Work on the 28 April to promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases globally. It is an awareness-raising campaign intended to focus international attention on emerging trends in the field of occupational safety and health and on the magnitude of work-related injuries, diseases and fatalities worldwide.
The 28th of April is also a day in which the world's trade union movement holds its International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers to honour the memory of victims of occupational accidents and diseases and organize worldwide mobilizations and campaigns on this date.
The celebration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an integral part of the Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health of the ILO and promotes the creation of a global preventative safety and health culture involving all stakeholders. In many parts of the world, national authorities, trade unions, employers’ organizations and safety and health practitioners organize activities to celebrate this date. We invite you to join us in celebrating this significant day and share with us the activities you organize.
The Theme for the World Day for Safety and Health at Work in 2013 is
"The Prevention of Occupational Diseases"
Partners
- Bureau for Employers' Activities of the ILO (ACT/EMP)
- Bureau for Workers' Activities of the ILO (ACTRAV)
- ILO Department of Communication and Public Information (DCOMM)
- International Organisation of Employers (IOE)
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) See also the International Workers' Day
- International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA)
- International Social Security Association (ISSA)
Previous years
- 2012 - Promoting safety and health in a green economy
- 2011 - Occupational Safety and Health Management System: A tool for continual improvement
- 2010 - Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work
- 2009 - Health and life at work: A basic human right
- 2008 - My life, my work, my safe work: Managing risk in the work environment
- 2007 - Safe and healthy workplaces: Making Decent Work a reality
- 2006 - Decent Work: Safe Work: HIV/AIDS
- 2005 - Creating and sustaining a preventative safety and health culture
- 2004 - Creating and sustaining a safety culture
- 2003 - Safety and health culture in a globalized world
SAFEDAY report topics
A safe and just transition?
UN Photo by Edwin G Huffman
Global challenges for sustainable development
UN Photo by Sebastiao Barbosa
The green debate and its social dimension
UN Photo by Jackie Curtis
The shades of green in green jobs
ILO Photo by Falise T.
Green jobs and occupational risks
ILO Photo by Marcel Crozet
Occupational risks in renewable energies
UN Photo by Sebastiao Barbosa
Solar energy
Los Angeles Times Photo by Allen J. Schaben
Wind energy
Inhabitat Photo by Lea Bogdan
Hydropower
ILO Photo by Marcel Crozet
Bioenergy
UN Photo by Ray Witlin
Waste management and recycling
ITUC Photo
Shipbreaking
ILO Photo by Anis Hassanein
OSH risks in the greening of traditional sectors
UN Photo
Mining and extractive technologies
ILO Photo by Marcel Crozet
Agriculture
The Huffington Post Photo by Kimberly Freeman Brown
Forestry work
UN Photo by Pernaca Sudhakaran
Construction and refurbishment
UN Photo by Paulo Filgueiras
The special case of nuclear energy
UN Photo by Greg Webb
The way ahead
UN Photo by Eskinder Debebe