28 April is World Day for Safety and Health at Work, and this year the ILO is highlighting the need for vastly improved national occupational safety and health (OSH) data.
Global action
The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted on 25 September 2015 includes a global plan of action with a number of specific targets involved. With its adoption, the capacity to collect and utilize reliable OSH data has also become indispensable for countries to fulfil their commitment to implement and report on some of the agenda’s 17 sustainable development goals and their targets.
Sustainable Development Goal 8, in particular, provides for the promotion of “inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” and its Target 8.8 focuses on the “protection of labour rights and promotion of safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.” For Target 8.8 countries are asked to report on the following indicator: “Frequency rates of fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries, by sex and migrant status”.
Multiple ILO OSH conventions also require ratifying member States to establish means of collecting and using reliable OSH data for prevention purposes – essential for detecting new hazards and emerging risks.
Resources
To support member States in the improvement of their capacity to collect and utilize reliable OSH data, the ILO produced a Toolbox, resources and a set of fact sheets.
International Workers’ Memorial Day
On 28 April, the International Workers’ Memorial Day is also commemorated, as an opportunity to recall that all workers have the right to safe and healthy working conditions. Workers’ Memorial Day, now an international day of remembrance of workers killed in incidents at work, or by diseases caused by work, is officially recognised by the UK Government and annually on this date, Workers’ Memorial Day events are held throughout the world.
The 2017 theme for the day is Good health and safety for all workers whoever they are and will focus on inequalities in occupational health and the role unions play in narrowing the inequalities gap. Employers, safety organisations, trade unions, and charities will mark the day; the
TUC provides a list of national events taking place.
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
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