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Global: Santé et sécurité au travail: progrès à l’OIT

Le conseil d’administration de l’Organisation internationale du Travail (OIT) vient de prendre une mesure importante pour accorder à la santé et à la sécurité au travail le statut de droits fondamentaux des travailleurs.

Lors de la réunion de la semaine dernière, les gouvernements ont majoritairement soutenu le groupe des travailleurs du conseil d’administration pour faire avancer le processus. La décision devrait être adoptée officiellement à la conférence de l’OIT en 2022.

Sharan Burrow, secrétaire générale de la CSI, a déclaré: «Nous aurions préféré que la santé et la sécurité soient déjà ajoutées à la liste des droits fondamentaux lors de la conférence de l’OIT de cette année, mais nous sommes reconnaissants aux gouvernements d’avoir fait en sorte que cela puisse avoir lieu l’an prochain. Une telle décision amènera les gouvernements et les entreprises à faire preuve d’une responsabilité plus grande lorsqu’il s’agit de protéger la vie des salariés sur leurs lieux de travail.»

«Cette avancée est d’autant plus importante que le bilan de la pandémie de Covid-19 est dramatique. Assurer la sécurité des lieux de travail, c’est aussi assurer une plus grande sécurité pour les travailleurs et la population. Partout dans le monde, il apparaît clairement que la plupart des foyers de contamination se développent dans les environnements professionnels et, notamment, dans les écoles.»

Soutien à la population du Myanmar

Autres volets importants examinés à la réunion du conseil d’administration:

  •  accord pour la préparation d’une convention de l’OIT relative aux risques biologiques.
  •  progrès en faveur du travail décent dans les chaînes d’approvisionnement : lancement par l’OIT d’une «analyse des lacunes» pour répondre aux problèmes de gouvernance.
  •  avancées dans l’élaboration d’une feuille de route pour garantir le respect des normes internationales du travail au Bangladesh, considéré comme l’un des pires pays pour les travailleurs selon l’Indice CSI des droits dans le monde.

À une écrasante majorité, le conseil d’administration a également exprimé son soutien sans réserve à la population et aux travailleurs du Myanmar, où la répression se poursuit, et a réclamé la restauration du gouvernement démocratiquement élu.

Le groupe des travailleurs du conseil d’administration a également adopté des déclarations portant sur le Myanmar et l’équité en matière de vaccination.

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Asia-Pacific/Global: Garment workers need safe factories | IndustriALL

Garment workers need safe factories | IndustriALL * Upcoming anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory disaster illustrates why safety must be an ILO fundamental right at work. #iwmd21 #savelivesatwork

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Global: ITUC photostory – Why occupational health and safety must be a fundamental right at work

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Global: Anticipate, prepare and respond to crises – Invest now in resilient occupational safety and health systems

The COVID-19 pandemic has led governments, employers, workers and the general population to face unprecedented challenges in relation to the virus and the many effects it has had on the world of work. The World Day for Safety and Health at Work will focus on strategies to strengthen national occupational safety and health (OSH) systems to build resilience, in order to face crises now and in the future, drawing on lessons learned and experiences from the world of work.

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Type: Campaign
When: 28 April 2021
Where: ILO HQ – Geneva
Contact(s): Manal Azzi (azzi@ilo.org); SafeDay Team (safeday@ilo.org)

Since emerging as a global crisis in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts everywhere. The pandemic has touched nearly every aspect of the world of work, from the risk of transmission of the virus in workplaces, to occupational safety and health (OSH) risks that have emerged as a result of measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. Shifts to new forms of working arrangements, such as the widespread reliance on teleworking, have, for example, presented many opportunities for workers but also posed potential OSH risks, including psychosocial risks and violence in particular.

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2021 focuses on leveraging the elements of an OSH system as set out in the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187). The world day report examines how the current crisis demonstrates the importance of strengthening these OSH systems, including occupational health services, at both the national and undertaking level.

The ILO will take this opportunity to raise awareness and stimulate dialogue on the importance of creating and investing in resilient OSH systems, drawing on both regional and country examples in mitigating and preventing the Spread of COVID-19 at the workplace.

https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/safety-and-health-at-work/events-training/events-meetings/world-day-safety-health-at-work/WCMS_769834/lang–en/index.htm

Global: ITUC/Hazards 28 April fundamental factfile

Why must safety be fundamental? Because our jobs are killing us. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t cause a workplace occupational health crisis; it exposed it. Millions are suffering and dying each year as a price for doing their job. Covid-19 added to this toll.

Find out the deadly truth with the ITUC/Hazards 28 April fundamental factfile.

 

Global: IT’S FUNDAMENTAL | Making work safety an ILO Fundamental Right at Work – Hazards magazine

An ILO Governing Body decision on 23 March 2021 was  a ‘significant step’ towards making occupational health and safety a fundamental workers’ right, global union confederation ITUC has said.  The  influential committee comprised of government, employer and union delegates overwhelmingly supported a call from worker members to move ahead with the process. It is expected that the decision will be formalised at the ILO Conference in 2022. The net.

The next step in the campaign is International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April 2021, when ITUC says “unions can send a message that health and safety protection at work must be recognised as a right for all. Whether it is Covid or occupational cancers, or workplace injuries and industrial diseases, every worker should have a right to a voice and a right to protection. No-one should have to die to make a living.”

According to ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow: “We will keep up the pressure, on International Workers’ Memorial Day and beyond.” The union-driven move was supported by occupational medicine organisations the Collegium Ramazzini and the Society of Occupational Medicine and leading workplace safety bodies the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). Unions had success at the ILO Governing Body meeting with another health and safety priority, striking an agreement that a Biological Hazards Convention will follow after occupational health and safety in ILO’s ruling making priorities.

It’s Fundamental: Making work safety an ILO Fundamental Right at Work – Hazards magazine, April 2021

Global: Toutes les 10s, un travailleur meurt en raison des procédures laxistes sur le lieu de travail

Global: Cada diez segundos, alguien muere a causa de procedimientos poco estrictos en el lugar de trabajo

Global: Every day, 7,600 workers die of work accidents or disease

Global: Ideas to mark Workers’ Memorial Day – UK TUC