Participatory approaches to improving safety, health and working conditions in informal economy workplaces. Experiences of Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam

The ILO, learning from local successful stories of participatory training programmes, has been playing a facilitator role to strengthen local efforts in improving safety and health of informal economy workplaces. Government officials, workers, and employers have been trained to be participatory safety and health trainers. They have collected and disseminated local good practices in OSH, trained informal economy workers, and networked them for sustained improvement actions. The ILO has advised the government to recognize the participatory training programmes as a practical means to address safety and health in informal economy workplaces and incorporate them into national OSH policy and programmes.