The ILO Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment SafeWork Pavan Baichoo SafeWork...

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

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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:

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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 (safework@ilo.orgsafework@ilo.org))

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