All news: occupational safety and health

Tanzania marks the World Day for Safety and Health 2015

Minister calls for tripartite national commitment and action in fostering lasting improvements in safety and health at workplaces “ Join in building a culture of prevention on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)”.

Employment injury insurance

A Legacy of Rana Plaza: making employment injury insurance a reality for all

Workers who were victims of Rana Plaza were uninsured and intensive efforts to compensate them had to be made after the fact. The ILO says the accident is a wake-up call to establish national employment injury insurance so all workers are protected...

Rana Plaza commemoration highlights progress made and challenges ahead in Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

Speakers at a commemoration event to mark the second Rana Plaza anniversary recognised the progress made towards creating a safer ready-made garment (RMG) sector for Bangladesh while stressing the need for further improvements to working conditions...

Rana Plaza, two years on

Factory inspector, a challenging but honourable job

Since the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse there has been a sustained effort to enhance the capacity and efficiency of the Labour Inspectorate. ILO is supporting this process through its Working Conditions in the Ready-Made Garment Sector...

ILO calls for greater social dialogue in Bangladesh RMG sector

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has called for greater social dialogue among representatives of government, employers and workers within the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector, highlighting the gains this would bring.

Rana Plaza, two years on

Rebuilding life after Rana Plaza: Stories of survivors

Two years after the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, the ILO has helped many survivors get back on their feet and back to work, two of whom have opened their own successful businesses and are thinking big for the...

Fatal Work Accidents

ILO Statement on Ranking Turkey in Fatal Work Accidents

Several recent media reports on the trial procedure related to the Soma mining accident mention the International Labour Organization (ILO) “ranking Turkey third in the World for fatal work accidents”.

ILO: 'Building a culture of prevention on OSH is a joint commitment by governments, workers and employers'

ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy Sandra Polaski attended the first All-Russian OSH Week, where she highlighted the need to ensure safe and healthy workplaces worldwide.

Global database on occupational safety and health legislation

Statements from the LEGOSH database contributors

LEGOSH invited its contributors to submit short statements indicating why do they think that the database is useful, what potential they see in it, and how available data can be used. They were also asked to provide any examples where the database...

Safety and Health

Turkey ratifies the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167) and the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No....

Turkey is the thirtieth and twenty-seventh ILO member State to have ratified, respectively, Convention No. 176 and Convention No.167, which aim to improve the safety and health of millions of mine and construction workers worldwide.

Africa CEO Forum

African CEOs commit to achieving zero HIV-related discrimination at work and promoting voluntary and confidential counselling and testing

A new ILO-UNAIDS publication captures the commitment of business communities from around the world to scale up the response to HIV in Africa.

Help line launched for Bangladesh worker safety and rights

A telephone Help line for workers to make and resolve grievances relating to workplace safety or workers’ rights has been launched in Bangladesh.

Occupational Safety and Health

ILO Viet Nam Director's Speech in Vung Tau for National Week on Occupational Safety and Health

Mr Gyorgy Sziraczki, Director, ILO Country Office for Viet Nam National Week on Occupational Safety and Health, Vung Tau, 15 March 2015

Bangladesh

110 newly recruited labour inspectors receive introductory training

A total of 110 newly recruited labour inspectors are learning the skills necessary to help enhance working conditions and worker safety in Bangladesh.

Regional cooperation to strengthen occupational safety and health

Governments, employers and workers from 10 ASEAN member States and Pacific Island partners gathered in Manila to raise safety and health standards in the region.

Safety and Health in Construction

Deposit by the Plurinational State of Bolivia of the instrument of ratification for the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988...

On 10 February 2015, the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification for the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167).

Major effort launched to complete remaining RMG factory inspections

A major effort is underway to complete safety inspectionsof all remaining export-oriented ready-made garment factories.

Social security

Employment injury insurance to benefit workers and employers alike in the garment sector

DHAKA – Bangladesh’s workforce and industry alike would benefit from the establishment of an employment injury insurance (EII) scheme according to specialists of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

Albania

Better employment services and improved vocational education

The Delegation of the European Union to Albania and the International Labour Organization (ILO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth, presented results a three-year Human Resources Development project on 15 January 2015 in...

ILO experts discuss employment of disabled persons in Kyrgyzstan

On January 21, ILO Moscow experts and State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Social Development Baktybek Zhekshenov discussed employment of disabled persons within the framework of the ILO project “From the crisis towards decent and safe jobs”...