All news: occupational safety and health

Lena Abrahamsson

Gender perspectives on the impact of technological change in mining

Lena Abrahamsson - Chair Professor of Human Work Science, and Dean, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

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.

Cristina Banks

Health, Safety, Well-Being and Economic Security Implications of Gig Work: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Cristina Banks - Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplace University of California, Berkeley

Kris De Meester (IOE)

Mainstreaming OSH: Putting people and their work at the centre to ensure healthy and safe workplaces for the future

Kris De Meester (IOE), Manager Health & Safety Affairs, International Industrial Relations

Ensuring decent work in the health sector

Health workers face important decent work deficits. During a Workshop organized by the European Commission, the ILO explained how this affects the quality of care, and how decision makers can ensure decent work in the health sector.

Maureen Dollard & Daniel Neser

The Work Stress Conundrum

Maureen Dollard -Professor & Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety University of South Australia and Daniel Neser - Student Activist, Student of Economics, University of Adelaide

Kaj Frick

Critical perspectives on OSH management systems and the future of work

Kaj Frick - Adj. Professor Emeritus (in Human Work Science), Lulea University of Technology, Sweden

Lin Fritschi

Future of work and occupational cancer

Lin Fritschi - Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Curtin University, Australia

Safety and health in agriculture

Serbia ratifies the Safety and Health in Agriculture Convention, 2001 (No. 184)

Serbia becomes the 17th country to ratify this convention.

Lode Godderis & Marie-Claire Lambrechts

Make healthy employees a priority and prevent chronic diseases

Lode Godderis - Full Professor of Occupational Medicine; KU Leuven, University of Leuven - Centre Environment and Health; IDEWE, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work Director Research and Development and Marie-Claire Lambrechts -...

Andrew Hale

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professions: who are they and why do we need them?

Andrew Hale - Emeritus professor of Safety Science, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and Director of HASTAM, UK

Peter Hasle

Safety and health in small businesses – between a rock and a hard place

Peter Hasle - Professor, Sustainable Production Aalborg University, Denmark

Phil James

Sick pay, compensation and the future of work

Phil James - Professor of Employment Relations, Middlesex University, London

Work safety

Competition promotes awareness of work safety among youngsters

Prizes include gifts and recognition from the ILO, including a trip to the United Nations Green House in Hanoi.

Ulf Johanson

Integrating the OSH Management System with the General Performance Management System

Ulf Johanson - Professor emeritus Affiliated to the Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Marie-Claire Lambrechts & Lode Godderis

Alcohol and Drugs at work: The interface between safety and health and health promotion

Marie-Claire Lambrechts - Researcher, PhD student; KU Leuven, University of Leuven - Centre Environment and Health; VAD, Flemish Expertise Centre Alcohol and Other Drugs – coordinator sector work and Lode Godderis - Full Professor of Occupational...

Chris Laszcz-Davis

The OSH Challenge: Understanding Our Emerging World and its Workforce Development Needs

Chris Laszcz-Davis - MS, CIH, COH, FAIHA, AIC Fellow, President, The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC, Orinda, CA

Paul Swuste & Jean-Christophe Le Coze

Safety, and safety science, past, present and future

Paul Swuste - Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and Jean-Christophe Le Coze - PhD, Head of Research Institut National de l’environnement industriel et des risques (INERIS), France

Annet Lenderink

Major changes in working lives and the ill health this might bring

Annet Lenderink - Occupational Health Specialist at Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases

David Michaels

Operational Excellence and Safety Management: Reflections from the Longest Serving Administrator of the US Occupational Safety and Health...

David Michaels - Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University School of Public Health, Washington, DC