Safe and Healthy Workplaces - Making Decent Work a Reality
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work. This year, as in previous years, tripartite events will be taking place world wide, and a number of products are available from this web page to support those efforts. You are invited to join us in promoting this important day.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/worldday/index.htm
Amid worldwide events, ILO says most accidents at work could be prevented if standards are respected
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2007/15.htm
Making decent work a reality: improving health and safety at suppliers
270 million accidents at work happen every year according to ILO estimates – 355,000 of which are fatal. The mortality rate in developing countries is five to seven times higher than in industrialised nations. The ILO promotes World Day for Safety and Health at Work as part of an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work */. ILO Online reports from Germany where car manufacturer Volkswagen has joined the ILO’s Safework programme in promoting safety and health at work in threshold countries – not so much to help its own employees but to help those working as its suppliers worldwide.
WOLFSBURG, Germany (ILO Online) – Elke Sebold-Tanski knows all about the dangers to safety and health at work. As an engineer employed by Volkswagen, her job is to ensure that valid health and safety standards are adopted and complied with through out the German car company’s worldwide facilities and workforce of 320,000.
“We notice things which people on site have simply become used to”, she says.
MORE http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/features/07/wdsh_07.htm
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work. This year, as in previous years, tripartite events will be taking place world wide, and a number of products are available from this web page to support those efforts. You are invited to join us in promoting this important day.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/worldday/index.htm
Amid worldwide events, ILO says most accidents at work could be prevented if standards are respected
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2007/15.htm
Making decent work a reality: improving health and safety at suppliers
270 million accidents at work happen every year according to ILO estimates – 355,000 of which are fatal. The mortality rate in developing countries is five to seven times higher than in industrialised nations. The ILO promotes World Day for Safety and Health at Work as part of an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, and decent work */. ILO Online reports from Germany where car manufacturer Volkswagen has joined the ILO’s Safework programme in promoting safety and health at work in threshold countries – not so much to help its own employees but to help those working as its suppliers worldwide.
WOLFSBURG, Germany (ILO Online) – Elke Sebold-Tanski knows all about the dangers to safety and health at work. As an engineer employed by Volkswagen, her job is to ensure that valid health and safety standards are adopted and complied with through out the German car company’s worldwide facilities and workforce of 320,000.
“We notice things which people on site have simply become used to”, she says.
MORE http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/features/07/wdsh_07.htm