Safety and health at work and labour laws compliance system

Commemoration of Workers' Memorial Day and the World Day for Safety and Health; and the Conduct of the Conference Workshop on Workers' Participation in the Labour Laws Compliance System

The ILO's SafeYouth@Work Project focused on the development of proposed additional guidelines for workers' representation in the Labour Laws Compliance System (LLCS) to mark the Workers' Memorial Day and the World Day for Safety and Health.

The ILO's SafeYouth@Work Project commemoreated the Workers'Memorial Day and marked the World Day for Safety and Health at Work in a conference on workers' participation in the Labour Laws Compliance System.

The event focused on development of proposed additional guidelines for workers' representation in the Labour Laws Compliance System (LLCS) process, including the possibility of establishing a trade union monitoring network. This network is envisioned to facilitate education programmes to build the capacity of workers' in engaging in the LLCS process and in monitoring enterprise compliance, whether it be in the area of general labour standards or occupational safety and health standards.

The conduct of this activity marked World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April, and provided an opportunity to raise awareness on the important role of trade unions in labour inspection and in the promotion of safe and healthy working conditions.

The two-day activity aimed at:
  1. to provide a venue for trade unions to raise awareness on labour inspection and compliance to occupational safety and health (OSH) standards, through the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and of the Workers' Memorial Day;
  2. to provide a venue for trade unions to discuss challenges and proposals on improving the implementation of the Labour Laws Compliance System (LLCS) and in the compliance and promotion of occupational safety and health standards; and
  3. to provide a mechanism for workers' representatives to discuss proposals to ensure genuine workers' representation in various modes of assessment, in the implementation review of the LLCS and improved enforcement of labour and OSH standards at the regional, industry and national levels, to include the possibility of establishing a trade union monitoring network.

Funding is provided by the United States Department of Labor under cooperative agreement number IL-26690-14-75-K-11.

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United States Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the United States Government. One hundred percentage of the total costs of the project or programme is financed with Federal funds, for a total of 11,443,156 dollars.