All news: occupational safety and health

COVID-19: Protecting Workers in the workplace

Managing positive mental health during COVID-19 pandemic in garment industry

The ILO’s Better Work Indonesia developed an online stress management training to create positive working and living environment for workers and management of garment industry during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Safe return to work

Bringing Back Jobs Safely: A presentation at the FINEX Forum on Beyond Financial Inclusion: International Lessons of Experience and Impact...

By Hideki Kagohashi, Enterprise Development Specialist, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines' Financial Inclusion and Women in Finance Committees (FINEX) Forum on Beyond Financial Inclusion:...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Supporting the survival of Indonesian MSMEs with business continuity plan

The COVID-19 outbreak has hit micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and their workers the harded, including in Indonesia. The ILO in collaboration with SYIB Associations provide an online training programme on business continuity plan to help...

COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Contagion or starvation, the dilemma facing informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lockdown measures will worsen poverty and vulnerabilities among the world’s two billion informal economy workers, says the International Labour Organization.

COVID-19

ILO, Armenian Government Discuss Measures to Address COVID-19 Pandemic

On May 5, an online discussion was conducted between the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Armenia to discuss ILO-Armenia cooperation in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interview

Sustainability of businesses depends on how we protect our workers from COVID-19

On Labour Day, Country Director of ILO Bangladesh, Tuomo Poutiainen spoke about the measures aimed at tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and the importance of protecting workers.

Op-Ed

New normal? Better normal!

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare in the cruellest way, the extraordinary precariousness and injustices of our world of work, says ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.

COVID-19 and the World of work

ILO Workers’ Group Message of Solidarity on the occasion of the 1st of May 2020

On 1 May 2020, the ILO Workers’ Group stands in solidarity with all workers around the world impacted by the Covid-19 crisis.

After COVID-19: SCORE trained enterprise gets back to work

Like many small and medium-sized enterprises impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhejiang Communications Construction Group (CICO) needed to quickly adapt to survive.

COVID-19 in the maritime sector

Seafarers and fishers: Providing vital services during the COVID-19 pandemic

As many countries in the world marked Labour Day, the International Labour Organization called on governments to implement measures to protect seafarers and fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interviews: Covid-19 in the wood furniture manufacturing sector Viet Nam

We have been keeping in touch with SCORE Trained enterprises around the globe to see how Covid-19 is impacting their business & how they are taking care of workers. Used to looking for ways to overcome challenges, most companies are optimistic that...

OSH World Day

Indonesia take actions to stop the pandemic through OSH

As a response to a growing concern over the continuing rise in COVID-19 infections in some parts of the world, including Indonesia, the ILO teamed up with the Ministry of Manpower and National OSH Council (DK3N) highlighted actions that could be...

An ILO Caribbean Virtual Roundtable (COVID-19 webinar series)

Caribbean occupational safety and health experts discuss measures to protect workers during and after COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual roundtable dialogue emphasizes infection risk prevention and control in workplaces

COVID-19: Stimulating the economy and employment

ILO: As job losses escalate, nearly half of global workforce at risk of losing livelihoods

The latest ILO data on the labour market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic reveals the devastating effect on workers in the informal economy and on hundreds of millions of enterprises worldwide.

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

All workers in all industries must be protected from infections

Country Director of ILO Bangladesh, Tuomo Poutiainen's message on 2020 World Day for Safety and Health at Work was published in several newspaper supplements.

In face of pandemic: Ensuring Safety and Health at Work

Addressing Safety and Health at Work in Eastern Europe and Central Asia while Facing Pandemic" Brief description: ILO continues to offer support to its constituents and proposes solutions to face pandemic and its consequences on labour market, OSH...

COVID-19 pandemic

ILO Caribbean COVID-19 Virtual Roundtable Series

Bi-weekly topical and thematic virtual roundtables that are open to the public. Participants to include representatives from governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, media, academia, as well as members of the general public who are...

Safety and health is everyone’s responsibility

New animation highlights the role of government, employers and workers in making workplaces safe and healthy

Protect workers both now and after lockdowns ease, says ILO

The International Labour Organization warns that without adequate safeguards for returning workers there could be a second wave of the virus.

ILO launches COVID-19 campaign to observe World Day for Safety and Health at Work

In collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and employers and workers organizations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) today, on the World Day for Safety and Health at Work,...