Promoting safer and healthier workplaces in Indonesia

Every year on the 28th of April, the ILO has observed the World Day for Safety and Health at Work since 2003. The Day is an annual international campaign to promote safe, healthy and decent work. With the celebration of the World Day, the ILO promotes the creation of global preventive safety and health culture involving ILO constituents and all key stakeholders in this field.

The 28 April is also the International Commemoration for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide by the trade union movement since 1996. In 2003, the ILO became involved in the April 28 campaign not only to honor injured and fallen workers but also to appreciate and celebrate that these injuries and fatalities can be prevented and reduced.

This year’s theme is Workplace Stress: A Collective Challenge. This responds to greater pressure faced by modern working life. With the pace of work dictated by instant communications and high levels of global competition, the lines separating work from life are becoming more and more difficult to identify.

This special reporting highlights initiatives taken by the ILO in Indonesia in promoting safer and healthier workplaces. Four initiatives are presented and featured from the workplace stress which is line with the this’s year theme, the importance of capacity building for OSH experts at the enterprise level, to building an OSH culture at home and for domestic work and links between OSH and disability.