All news: labour inspection

New heat stress guidance to be issued before summer 2019

Heat stress guidance and a new labour inspection policy to foster a national preventative safety and health culture in Qatar.

Radiation protection

Strengthen protection of workers against radiation in Latin America

The International Atomic Energy Agency and the ILO jointly convened a regional workshop to strengthen the protection of workers exposed to radiation in their jobs by using a new IAEA/ILO Safety Guide on Occupational Radiation Protection (GSG-7). The...

Migrant health

Policy Coherence in Migration Health is promoted

A side event on Policy Coherence in Migration Health – Towards Shared Responsibility and Partnerships will be organized by the International Organization for Migration on 4 April at the Commission on Population and Development in New York.

Regional cooperation in the Western Balkans for ensuring the right of every worker to safe and fair working conditions developed

In the frame of the ILO project “Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP)”, funded by the EU, the Labour Inspection of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have signed yesterday, 27 of March, in...

ILO supports strategic compliance planning for the Labour Inspection Department in Qatar

Goal to transition from traditional inspection model to strategic approach

Compliance

Viet Nam launches labour inspection campaign to promote sustainable woodwork industry development

There are numerous challenges in labour law compliance in this sector, notably in overtime, labour contracts, unemployment benefits, occupational safety and health, and social insurance.

Chemical safety

ILO hosts international stakeholder workshop on governance for the sound management of chemicals and waste

On 28 February and 1 March 2019, the ILO hosted a stakeholder workshop on strengthening governance for the sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020, organized by UNITAR and co-sponsored by the Governments of Germany and Switzerland.

Chemical safety

ILO joins global efforts to prevent exposure to lead

In March 2019, the ILO joined the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint (the Alliance), a voluntary partnership formed by UN Environment and the World Health Organization to prevent exposure to lead, while promoting the phase-out of paints...

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Indonesia continue to improve its labour inspection in fishing sector

Fishing sector is considered as one of the important sectors for Indonesia. To ensure labour rights of fishing workforce, Indonesia continue to improve its labour inspection in the fishing sector, with support of the ILO.

Yogindra Samant

The Promises and Perils of the Platform Economy: Occupational Health and Safety Challenges, and the Opportunities for Labour Inspection

Yogindra Samant - MD, MPH, PhD, Chief Medical Officer Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority Statens Hus, Trondheim, Norway

Occupational Safety and Health

ILO and WHO enhance partnership in monitoring workers’ health

The ILO and the WHO signed an Agreement on the collaboration for the development of a joint methodology for estimating the work-related burden of disease and injury and preparation of corresponding estimates.

Strategic Compliance Planning Workshop in Laos PDR

The ILO held a workshop on strategic compliance planning on occupational safety and health (OSH) on 6-8 February 2019 in Vientiane, Lao PDR, supported by a Vision Zero Fund project: Safety and Health in Lao PDR Supply Chains.

Informal employment

ILO helps Ukraine to reduce undeclared work

Tackling informal employment is a priority of the Ukrainian Government and ILO has been supporting the country since 2016 in fighting undeclared work. Recently Government came out with new data showing that undeclared work is in decline and that...

Tripartite Strategic Compliance Planning Workshop in Malaysia

The Malaysia Ministry of Human Resources (MoHR) and the ILO organized a tripartite strategic compliance planning workshop for labour regulators in Peninsular Malaysia, funded by USDOL-Labour Law Reform project.

Labour inspection

ILO conducts a tripartite workshop in Syria focused on labour inspection

The ILO training-of-trainers workshop in Damascus focused on labour inspection, gender equality, child labour as well as occupational safety and health.

Cambodia Labour Inspection Strategic Compliance Planning

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MoLVT) of Cambodia, in collaboration with Better Factories Cambodia and the International Labour Organization organized one and half day workshop on the 6-7 December 2018, aimed to develop and specify...

Awareness raising campaign on OSH in the construction sector of Karachi

The ILO under its Dutch funded project on “Strengthening Labour Inspection System in Pakistan (SLISP)” supported the Labour and Human Resources Department of Sindh in implementing an awareness raising campaign on Occupational Safety and Health in...

Exposure visit of government officials from Pakistan to the work on labour inspection in the Philippines

The ILO Islamabad office under its Dutch funded project on Strengthening Labour Inspection System in Pakistan (SLISP) organized an exposure visit of Pakistan’s Government officials to Philippines. The visit emulated helping the government officials...

Regional conference on Labour Inspection in NIS

The ILO-ACTRAV, in cooperation with the Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) organized a regional conference for the ITUC-PERC affiliates in the Newly Independent States (NIS) on 26-27 September in...

Labour inspection

Opening address at the Executive Course on Managing the Inspectorate for Strategic Labour Laws Compliance

By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the Executive Course on Managing the Inspectorate for Strategic Labour Laws Compliance, Quezon City, Philippines, 3 October 2018