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Message by Juan Somavia Director-General of the International Labour Office on the occasion of World Day for Safety and Health at Work

World Day for Safety and Health at Work (28 April 2010)

Questions and answers: Emerging risks and new forms of prevention in a changing world of work

Workers, employers and governments mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work each year as part of an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work. This year, it is focussing on emerging risks at the workplace and new forms...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work - 28 April 2010

Focus on new emerging hazards in a changing world of work

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work will be observed widely this year against a backdrop of newly emerging hazards in the world of work and growing concern over the impact of the global economic crisis,” according to the International Labour...

Garment workers run for safety in factories

2,500 garment workers run on Sunday 25 April at 7.00 at Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park, Binh Duong Province in a safety campaign to mark the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2010.

Belarusian Parliament Adopted Laws to Ratify Two ILO Conventions

On November 27, 2019 the House of Representatives of the Belarusian National Assembly adopted the draft laws “On Ratifying the Safety and Health in Mines Convention (No. 176)” and “On Ratifying the Holidays with Pay Convention (Revised), 1970”.

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Occupational safety and health in times of crisis: “We have to invest in a healthy workforce now”

More than 300 participants from some 60 countries discussed this week the potential impact of the global economic crisis on occupational safety and health (OSH) at an international conference hosted by the ILO in Düsseldorf on “Implementing...

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Fighting a leading killer: how the German TÜV promotes health at the workplace and beyond

It is estimated that one million people worldwide develop colorectal cancer every year. In 2008, the German TÜV, a private-sector regulatory and safety inspection body, launched a colorectal cancer screening campaign reaching tens of thousands of...

Occupational safety and health

ILO meeting adopts revised list of occupational diseases

A tripartite meeting of experts on occupational diseases held at the International Labour Office has adopted a new list of occupational diseases designed to assist countries in the prevention, recording, notification and, if applicable, compensation...

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ILO Conference in Düsseldorf to discuss crisis impact on occupational safety and health

The International Labour Organization (ILO) will host an international conference “Implementing Occupational Safety and Health Standards Globally” in Düsseldorf from 3-6 November 2009 to consider the potential impact of the global economic crisis on...

Closing remarks at the ASPPI 10th General Assembly and Convention

By Ms Linda Wirth, Director, ILO SRO-Manila, Davao City, Philippines

Health and life at work: a basic human right

ILO Office in Viet Nam and its tripartite constituents celebrated the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and its 90-year anniversary by organizing a seminar on World Day for Safety and Health at Work and Occupational Safety and Health (OSH)...

Speech on the occasion of ILO's 90th anniversary in Malaysia

By Mr Bill Salter, Director, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia

Message by Mr. Juan Somavia, on the occasion of World Day for Safety and Health at Work (28 April 2009)

Safety and health at work

Questions and answers on Occupational Safety and Health in times of economic crisis

With credit barely flowing and global demand on a downward slide, enterprises around the world are struggling to cope with the global economic crisis. Meanwhile, the numbers of unemployed and working poor are rising. How is the crisis affecting...

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work: Empowering unions to tackle the spread of the avian influenza virus in workplaces

As of 23 April 2009, 141 people in Indonesia have been infected by the avian flu virus (H5N1), of whom 115 died (fatality rate 81 percent). This makes Indonesia the highest in the world in terms of numbers of human cases. Workers and employers in...

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

World Day for Safety and Health at Work to be commemorated amid concerns over impact of global economic crisis

World Day for Safety and Health at Work is to be marked in scores of countries and hundreds of localities on all continents this year with a host of events aimed at raising awareness about what ILO Director-General Juan Somavia called the “human...

Speech on the occasion of ILO's 90th anniversary in Singapore

By Mr Bill Salter, Director, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia

New programme to improve workplace safety in four provinces

A new programme to improve working conditions and occupational safety and health (OSH) was launched in four provinces in Viet Nam, in Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien - Hue and Dong Nai.

Successful ways of preventing avian & human influenza in Thailand to be discussed - Project to be extended to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia,...

Successful techniques for preventing the spread of avian and human influenza among Thailand’s poultry workers, farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises will be discussed at a workshop in Bangkok on Tuesday 20 January 2009.

Avian and pandemic human influenza and the workplace

By Suttida Chaikitsakol, National Project Coordinator, Subregional Ofice for East Asia. The continuing outbreaks of cases of avian influenza have prompted worldwide concerns of possible pandemic human influenza. As the number of cases of infection...