Wrap for the UN-Spain MDG Achievement Fund Joint International Programme for Safer Food Production for Children
The three-year project has ended with recognizable achievements in the areas of safety management, capacity building of OSH inspectors and child-food safety by conducting training workshops, researches, and setting up the work safety standardization system.
The Wrap for the UN-Spain MDG Achievement Fund Joint International Programme for Safer Food Production for Children was held 21-22 November, 2012 in Guiyang city, Guizhou province and Yuxi city, Yunnan province respectively. Representatives from the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), the State Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), Guizhou and Yunnan SAWS and AQSIQ, programme implementing agencies, pilot enterprises, and food processing enterprises in the two provinces, as well as the ILO and UNIDO participated in the meeting. This meeting brought down the curtain on the programme which has been implemented for three years.
The programme was carried out under the joint effort of the ILO, SAWS, UNIDO and AQSIQ. Among them, the ILO and SAWS was taking the sub-programme on promoting work safety for the food processing enterprises, which was aimed to improve the safety management, strengthen the capacity building of OSH inspectors and promote child-food safety at Guizhou and Yunnan, two pilot provinces, by ways of conducting training workshops, researches, and setting up the work safety standardization system.
In the past three years, the ILO and SAWS have carried out lots of activities combining the ILO work safety related standards such as the Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 155) and Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 187) and centering around with the theme to establish work safety standardization system put forwarded by the SAWS. With development of the sub-programme, a series of OSH materials have been developed and adopted into training use for both OSH inspectors and enterprises; on-site enterprise surveys and trainings have been carried out by OSH experts for several times, and potential hazards and risks identified by OSH experts have been corrected. At the end of the programme, the workplace of enterprises were found safer and healthier, workers owning more decent jobs, work safety level upgraded, and child-food products safer, better, and more competitive, which could definitely promote child nutrition and healthy growth and development.
This sub-programme for Safer Food Production for Children was under the China/UN/Spain Joint Programme on Improving Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Security for China’s Most Vulnerable Women and Children (CFSN). The CFSN is a three-year (2009-2012) joint initiative of 8 UN Agencies and 18 Chinese government and technical agencies funded by the MDG-F. Its objectives are to support the Chinese government to adopt integrated measures to improve nutrition, food safety and food security for China’s most vulnerable women and children.
The programme was carried out under the joint effort of the ILO, SAWS, UNIDO and AQSIQ. Among them, the ILO and SAWS was taking the sub-programme on promoting work safety for the food processing enterprises, which was aimed to improve the safety management, strengthen the capacity building of OSH inspectors and promote child-food safety at Guizhou and Yunnan, two pilot provinces, by ways of conducting training workshops, researches, and setting up the work safety standardization system.
In the past three years, the ILO and SAWS have carried out lots of activities combining the ILO work safety related standards such as the Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 155) and Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (No. 187) and centering around with the theme to establish work safety standardization system put forwarded by the SAWS. With development of the sub-programme, a series of OSH materials have been developed and adopted into training use for both OSH inspectors and enterprises; on-site enterprise surveys and trainings have been carried out by OSH experts for several times, and potential hazards and risks identified by OSH experts have been corrected. At the end of the programme, the workplace of enterprises were found safer and healthier, workers owning more decent jobs, work safety level upgraded, and child-food products safer, better, and more competitive, which could definitely promote child nutrition and healthy growth and development.
This sub-programme for Safer Food Production for Children was under the China/UN/Spain Joint Programme on Improving Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Security for China’s Most Vulnerable Women and Children (CFSN). The CFSN is a three-year (2009-2012) joint initiative of 8 UN Agencies and 18 Chinese government and technical agencies funded by the MDG-F. Its objectives are to support the Chinese government to adopt integrated measures to improve nutrition, food safety and food security for China’s most vulnerable women and children.