All news: occupational safety and health
Employer-employee cooperation vital for RMG Sector development
DHAKA – The need to promote dialogue and build trust between workers and employers to ensure sustainable growth of the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector was stressed by high-level speakers at an event on workplace cooperation held in Dhaka today.
Asia and Pacific
Unions call for more emphasis on preventing workplace accidents and diseases
A symposium of union participants and ILO experts in Jakarta says preventative culture must become a priority.
Fundamental principles and rights at work – seminar in Uzbekistan
On October 5, Uzbekistan’s Samarkand Regional Association of Trade Union Organizatons hosted a regional seminar on fundamental principles and rights at work. The event was organized by the Council of the Federation of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan, the...
RMG trade union members learn safety and organisational skills
Trade union members will be better placed to enhance conditions in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector following a week-long programme of training activities designed to increase their organizational capacity and involvement in occupational safety...
ILO: Good safety is good business
ILO Deputy Director-General, Gilbert Houngbo says being able to earn a living in safe and healthy workplaces is a basic human right that needs to be ensured and is a win-win for workers and businesses, at the 7th China International Forum on Work...
7th China International Forum on Work Safety
ILO Deputy Director-General's address to the International Forum on Work Safety
An overview of activities
INRS 2013-2014 studies and research report
The National Institute for Research and Security (INRS) in France has published the fifth issue of its "Studies & Research" scientific report. The document is made available for download.
Sindh Government prepares first ever Policy on Occupational Safety & Health
The first ever draft provincial Policy on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) was unveiled in Karachi today by the Sindh Labour Department in a tripartite consultation with Employers, Workers, Civil society organizations and media.
Authorities urged to prepare for enhanced building and fire safety role
Bangladesh needs to ready its institutional, regulatory and oversight mechanisms relating to building and fire safety to ensure a safe working environment in the ready-made garment sector once the current support from external partners ends a...
G20 Labour and Employment Ministers meeting - Melbourne
ILO Director-General welcomes G20's ambitious commitments to promote decent jobs
Guy Ryder has welcomed commitments made by the G20 Ministers to tackle the global jobs crisis with a package of measures to support the creation of decent jobs that can lift working families out of poverty and drive sustainable development.
Kazakhstan: Majilis approved a bill to ratify the ILO Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention
On September 10, the Majilis, lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, approved a bill to ratify the ILO Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187).
Cooperation priorities discussed in Bishkek
On September 8-9, Ms Dimitrina Dimitrova, Director of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, visited Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to meet with representatives of the government, trade unions and...
ILO Provides 95 Motorcycles for Labour Inspectors
DHAKA – A total of 95 motorcycles which will boost the capacity of government officials to carry out inspections at garment factories were handed over in a ceremony held in Dhaka today.
World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
ILO Director-General: "Work claims more victims than war"
Guy Ryder announces ILO to renew efforts to get compliance for health and safety standards at work around the globe.
A world without fatal work accidents is possible
A world without fatal or serious occupational accidents is possible, the organizers of the XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014 have appealed, as the largest global occupational safety event opened in Frankfurt, Germany on Monday 25...
World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
A world without fatal work accidents is possible
Information session
Changes regarding the CIS and the network of CIS Centres
An information session about important changes regarding the ILO International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS) and the network of CIS Centres will be held as a side event of the XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work...
Media advisory
World Congress to showcase integrated strategies for safety and health
International Youth Day 2014
Ryder: "The mental health of young people matters to us all"
Kunshan Zhongrong - Prevention, risk assessment are key to families' hopes for seeing loved ones return from work safely
The ILO has been deeply saddened by the deaths and causalities in a workshop in Kunshan on August 2, 2014.
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