World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2023; April 28th.

FORUM: "A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental principle and right at work."World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2023.

Join the International Labour Organization global dialogue on how to implement a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right at work. and why safety and health at work is essential for social justice. One of the main pillars of the Global Strategy is advocacy, the World Day for Safety and Health at Work is a significant tool to raise awareness of how to make work safe and healthy and of the need to raise the political profile of occupational safety and health. April 28th is also the International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers organized worldwide by the trade union movement since 1996. Follow the conversation wirh the hashtags: #WorldDayofSafetyandHealthatwork, #28April, #SafeWorkingEnvironment, #HealthyWorkingEnvironment. #Rightatwork.

EVENTS: On 28 April 2023, the ILO during the 2023 World Day for Safety and Health at work event will celebrate this decision, bringing together experts and constituents to discuss the implications it has for the world of work, as well as how to practically implement this right in the world of work. It will also serve to present the findings of research on the implementation status of various provisions of the fundamental Convention No. 155 and the Convention No. 187.

Stay tume to watch the Livestream on Friday, 28 April from 13:30 to 15:00 CEST; on How can we promote the fundamental right to a safe and healthy working environment?

STATEMENTS: 
Statement from ILO Director-General on World Day for Safety and Health at work 2023; April 28th.

10 years ago this month, more than eleven hundred workers died and thousands were injured when the Rana Plaza building collapsed.

I visited Bangladesh in the days after. I remember the shock and pain of the victims and families. Dealing not just with bereavement, but with the loss of bread-winners, their security, incomes and futures.

There could be no more brutal lesson about the importance of occupational safety and health.

We have an essential responsibility to ensure that people go to work and come home alive, uninjured, and healthy.

This year, on World Day for Safety and Health at Work, we can celebrate an important step towards this goal. The designation of a safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental principle and right at work.

All ILO Member States are now expected to respect, realize, and promote this principle, and the two fundamental conventions at its core.

It is the start of a long journey. But it is a step in the right direction, towards decent work and social justice for all.

ILO Director General, Mr.Gilbert H. Houngbo.

Interview with Manal Azzi, global OSH Lead for the ILO.

CAMPAIGN MATERIALS

PUBLICATION: Report on Implementing a safe and healthy working environment: Where are we now?