All events: occupational safety and health

Webinar

Safety and Health in the Construction Sector- Overcoming the Challenges

A one hour webinar with ILO experts dealing with occupational safety health and the construction sector to discuss the challenges of protecting workers. The webinar aims to provide practical guidance to enterprises wishing to make health and safety...

Meeting of Experts on Maritime Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health

ACTRAV Symposium on the role of trade unions in the promotion of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in the Asia- Pacific region

35 Union leaders from 14 countries in Asia and the Pacific will participate in the Symposium to place greater emphasis on Occupational Safety and Health and promote collective bargaining in the region.

Global Dialogue Forum on Wages and Working Hours in the Textiles, Clothing, Leather and Footwear Industries

Tripartite participants discussed ways to address wages and working hours in the textiles, clothing, leather and footwear industries.

Strengthen work safety foundation and improve safety-enabling capacity

7th China International Forum on Work Safety

Under the theme “Strenghten work safety foundation and improve safety-enabling capacity”, the forum will revolve around related topics such as underground mine refuge chambers, management and control of major hazard sources of chemicals, prevention...

Global Forum for Prevention

XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014

The World Congress for Safety and Health at Work offers a platform for the exchange of information and views to experts in occupational safety and health (OSH), representatives of enterprises and workers (the social partners), decision-makers in...

Train the Trainers workshop for Senior Master Trainers on the Essentials of Occupational Safety and Health in Ready-Made Garment Sector

Train the Trainers workshop for Senior Master Trainers aims to create better understanding of OSH among employers of Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Sector, mid and senior level management RMG factories, fire and safety instructors are attending a four...

ILO's participation in the 20th International AIDS Conference

The ILO is participating in AIDS2014, which is expected to gather over 10,000 delegates (including policy makers, programme implementers, practitioners, activists, scientists, journalists, people living with HIV) from nearly 200 countries on the...

Participatory Planning Workshop on Managing Occupational Safety and Health at Workplace in the Ready-Made Garment Industries

A day long planning workshop on OSH will be held with stakeholders and industry insiders from the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Industry aimed at in-depth analysis of intervention plan and understanding of the ground realities at the factory level

Safety and health in the use of chemicals at work

28 April - World Day for Safety and Health at Work

“Safety and health in the use of chemicals at work“ is the theme for the 2014 World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Marking the day, an ILO report shows that while chemicals can be useful, necessary steps should be taken to prevent and control...

World day for Safety and Health at Work and Workers’ Memorial Day

One year after Rana Plaza, where are we and where do we want to go? Discussion on the ILO's role

On year after the Rana Plaza Building Collapse, the ILO Bureau for Workers' Activities will organise a panel discussion on 28th April, to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of this tragedy, which killed 1138 workers and injured over 2000...

Garment industry in Bangladesh

UK's Minister Visits Rana Plaza Survivors Rehabilitation Programme

Visiting UK’s Minister of State for International Development, Alan Duncan expressed his satisfaction at the progress made by the Rana Plaza Survivors Rehabilitation Programme in last one year, during a visit to Savar and termed the stories of the...

11-12 November, International Training Centre of the ILO

51st meeting of the CIS network

Make it visible: Occupational Diseases - Recognition, compensation and prevention

ILO International Safety and Health Conference 2013

The conference shared international and national good practices as part of an effort to enhance the effectiveness of action to prevent, identify, record and compensate occupational diseases.

Work safety

Training of trainers on occupational safety and health inspection tools in quarrying and processing enterprises

Participants from five target provinces will be trained on occupational safety and health in quarrying, one of the deadliest industries in Viet Nam

Postal Services

Seminar on Sustainable Development in Postal Services in EuroMed countries

This 3-day seminar on environmental and economic issues, gender equality, social dialogue, HIV/AIDS , and mainstreaming employment and decent work in postal services in Mediterranean region showed how sustainable development can foster performance...

International Research Conference

Improving working conditions in small and medium enterprises

International experts, researchers and field practitioners are meeting at the ILO to discuss how investing in working conditions, safety and health and training can turn into increased competitiveness and performance and result in a win win scenario...

Campaign

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2013

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work in 2013 focuses on the prevention of occupational diseases.

Occupational and Safety Health Workshop for Trade Unions

Built the capability of Indonesian trade union branches in socializing the benefits of the implementation of SCORE OSH methodology in Small Medium Enterprises and getting stronger commitment from all Indonesian trade unions as one of the SCORE...

Tripartite Workshop on Work in Fishing Convention No.188

Two-day National Tripartite Workshop on Work in Fishing Convention No.188 to discuss, disseminate and validate the findings of the Gap Analysis prepared by the Ministry of Labour and Employment with ILO's support and to promote steps towards...