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October 2021
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Video
Improving Safety and Health in Supply Chains
01 October 2021
The United Nations Global Compact, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization has identified Nine Key Business Practices for Improving Safety and Health through Supply Chains.
February 2021
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Vision Zero Fund High–Level Forum
Improving safety and health in global supply chains vital for development
23 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown what happens when occupational safety and health systems are under-resourced and unprepared. Improving the protection of working people, particularly in global supply chains, is vital for social and economic development, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, told a meeting of the Vision Zero Fund.
April 2020
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COVID-19 and Safety and health at work
COVID-19 and the new meaning of safety and health at work
30 April 2020
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, occupational safety and health takes on even greater importance. It is a core aspect of decent work, and as such, it should be universally guaranteed. Yet, too many work accidents still take place every year.
November 2014
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Garment industry in Bangladesh
Workplace injury insurance must be part of the Rana Plaza legacy
14 November 2014
By Gilbert Houngbo, ILO Deputy Director-General for Field Operations and Partnerships
April 2013
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Publication
Questions and Answers on the prevention of occupational diseases
28 April 2013
November 2010
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Press Briefing
Joint ILO-WHO-UNAIDS Policy Guidelines on Improving Health Workers' Access to HIV and TB Prevention: Press Conference
19 November 2010
Dr. Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, Ms. Elizabeth Tinoco, Director of the ILO Sectoral Activities Department and Ms. Susan Wilburn, from the WHO Occupational & Environmental Health Department, launched the Joint ILO-WHO-UNAIDS Policy Guidelines on Improving Health Workers' Access to HIV and TB Prevention, at a press conference in Geneva. The new guidelines are designed to help national health systems protect health workers who are too often exposed to hazards of infection in their workplace.
July 2008
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Publication
Shining a light of hope: Occupational safety and health in the informal economy. Hundreds of millions of workers worldwide suffer from work-related diseases and accidents.
09 July 2008
The ILO estimates that hundreds of millions of workers worldwide suffer from work-related diseases and accidents, the poorest and the least protected being the worst sufferers. Bringing occupational safety and health to those working and living in the informal economy represents a particular challenge as this report from the slums of Pune in India shows.
May 2006
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Article
95th session of the International Labour Conference, 2006
Singapore: Charting a new roadmap for safer workplaces29 May 2006
The Conference Committee on Safety and Health will consider a promotional framework for occupational safety and health (OSH), including a Convention supplemented by a Recommendation. The proposed instruments would support placing occupational safety and health high at national agendas, and promote safer and healthier working environments worldwide.