The ILO Programme The ILO Programme on Safety and Health on Safety and Health
at Work and the at Work and the EnvironmentEnvironment
SafeWorkSafeWork
Pavan BaichooSafeWork ILO Geneva
IntroductionIntroduction
Global workforce: 2.7 billionWork related fatalities: 2 millionOccupational accidents: 270 millionWork-related diseases: 160 millionPeople in poverty: 1000 millionGlobal GDP (income) 30 000 billion USDLost GDP in accidents/diseases 4 %Illiterate: 1000 millionChild workers: 246 million
Global Estimates
Work related annual Work related annual deathsdeaths
17%
32%
8%
23%
18%
1%
0.4%
1%
Communicable diseases CancerRespiratory Diseases Circulatory diseasesMental Disorders Digestive systems diseasesGenitourinary system Accidents and violence
Deaths attributed to work
Fatal accidents - Fatal accidents - regionsregions
EME 6%FSE 6%
India 13%
China 20%
MEC 8%
OAI 24%
LAC 8%
SSA 15%
Established Market Economies Former Socialist Economies
India China
Other Asia and Islands Sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean Middle-Eastern Crescent
Fatal occupational injuries- total: 355 000
ILO responseILO response
ILO StandardsILO Standards,,– ConvConv. 155. 155, 161, 161 and and 8181 and and 888 8
other relevantother relevant Co Conventionsnventions– New: C184 on AgricultureNew: C184 on Agriculture– Recording and Notification of Recording and Notification of
occupational accidents and occupational accidents and diseases, 2002diseases, 2002
– Integrated approachIntegrated approach SafeWork
SafeWorkSafeWorkSafeWorkDirector
WHPW OEHWorkers’ Health
Promotion and
Well-being at Work
Occupational
and Environmental
Health
OS
Occupational
Safety
Planning and
Management
Team
DISDevelopment
of Inspection
SystemsCISKnowledge
and Information
Networking
Links to:
Sectorial task-forces
Other sectors/IFPs
Field structure
Taskforces:
Tec
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Advocacy Standards/guides National Capacity Extending protection
ObjectivesObjectives
Protecting workers in hazardous occupations
Extending protection Promoting workers’ health and
well-being Showing that protection pays
Means of actionMeans of action
Standard setting Codes of practice and other
instruments Development of inspection systems Knowledge management Technical cooperation Inter-Agency cooperation
Standard settingStandard setting New Convention on OSH in
Agriculture Protocol to Convention 155 Development of the integrated
approach to standard setting in the field of OSH
ILO action plan for the promotion of safety and health at work
New promotional framework convention
Codes of PracticeCodes of Practice
37 Codes of practice on OSH
Inspection systemsInspection systems
Application of modern and enhanced inspection systems
Strategic enforcement International system
audits National action
programmes
OSH management OSH management systemssystems
Knowledge Knowledge managementmanagement
All published material free on website
Strengthening of CIS network Global linkages More translations Development of systems for
information exchange for countries without internet
Technical cooperationTechnical cooperation
Methodology for national OSH profiles Plans for strengthening regional
structures Country and region specific activities TC as a means for information
dissemination TC to support translation of OSH
material
Technical cooperation/2Technical cooperation/2
National SafeWork programmes:– Vision, commitment at the highest level– National strategy and targets– National profiles and indicators– National action plans– Reporting and auditing frameworks– Continual follow-up and improvement
International International CooperationCooperation
Consultative mechanisms Alliances and partnerships Action at regional and national
levels Resource mobilisation
Inter-Agency Inter-Agency CooperationCooperation
WHO – joint committee IPCS – UNEP, WHO and ILO
Inter-Agency Inter-Agency CooperationCooperation
IOMC -
Advocacy and voluntary Advocacy and voluntary actionaction
Media and visibility– The face of decent work, ship-breaking
World Congress’s Safety councils Codes of conduct and management
systems Voluntary compliance programmes
HIV/AIDSHIV/AIDS
Newsletters and Newsletters and leafletsleaflets
Asian-Pacific and African newsletters on OSH
National newsletters: Thailand, Pakistan..
Information Information managementmanagement
International occupational safety and health information centre (CIS)
– Databases and solutions– Tools for change– Exchange of experience– Networking
Information Information management/2management/2
CIS national centres in 1959
Information Information management/3management/3
130 national centres in 2003
Information Information management/3management/3
CIS Bulletin
Information Information management/4management/4
Databases
Information Information management/5management/5
Encyclopaedia on occupational health and safety
English
French
Spanish
Chinese
Russian
Japanese
Korean
SafeWork Website (SafeWork Website (www.ilo.org/safeworkwww.ilo.org/safework))
SafeWork secretariat (SafeWork secretariat ([email protected]@ilo.org))
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