Promotional materials
2011
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Poster
World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2011 poster
24 March 2011
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Video
Interview with Mr. Peter Herzig, Representative of the European Union Head of Delegation to the Republic of Zambia and to the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
09 March 2011
A tripartite workshop on the development of a national occupational safety and health programme for Zambia took place in Lusaka on 9-11 March 2011. By the end of the workshop, participants identified and described the strengths and challenges for OSH in Zambia; identified and analyzed the priorities for action in order to improve the OSH system; and put in place a roadmap that would lead to the development and eventual adoption of a National OSH Programme for Zambia. The interview was aired during prime time on Muvi TV in Zambia on 9 March 2011.
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Video
Interview with Mr. Leonard Hikaumba, President of the Zambia Confederation of Trade Unions (ZCTU)
09 March 2011
A tripartite workshop on the development of a national occupational safety and health programme for Zambia took place in Lusaka on 9-11 March 2011. By the end of the workshop, participants identified and described the strengths and challenges for OSH in Zambia; identified and analyzed the priorities for action in order to improve the OSH system; and put in place a roadmap that would lead to the development and eventual adoption of a National OSH Programme for Zambia. The interview was aired during prime time on Muvi TV in Zambia on 9 March 2011.
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Video News Release
100th International Women’s Day
07 March 2011
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, we also remember the women who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York in 1911. One hundred years on, despite some progress there is still much to be done to achieve gender equality in the world of work.
2010
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Press Briefing
Joint ILO-WHO-UNAIDS Policy Guidelines on Improving Health Workers' Access to HIV and TB Prevention: Press Conference
19 November 2010
Dr. Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, Ms. Elizabeth Tinoco, Director of the ILO Sectoral Activities Department and Ms. Susan Wilburn, from the WHO Occupational & Environmental Health Department, launched the Joint ILO-WHO-UNAIDS Policy Guidelines on Improving Health Workers' Access to HIV and TB Prevention, at a press conference in Geneva. The new guidelines are designed to help national health systems protect health workers who are too often exposed to hazards of infection in their workplace.
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ILO in the media
CNN Interviews Juan Somavia During Rescue of Chilean Miners
13 October 2010
CNN's Richard Quest interviews Juan Somavia, the ILO's Director-General and former Chilean ambassador to the United Nations, about the rescue of the Chilean miners and the hazards of working in the mining industry.
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Video interview
ILO Director-General Juan Somavia highlights the courage of the 33 Chilean miners
13 October 2010
With the rescue team still at work, ILO Director General Juan Somavia spoke with ILO TV and emphasized the strength and courage of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, their families and the Chilean people who together made possible what seemed so impossible.
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Video interview
Occupational Health for Health Workers: An Interview with Julia Lear
06 July 2010
ILO TV interviews Julia Lear, Health Services Specialist in the ILO's Sectoral Activities Department about a joint ILO and WHO tripartite experts meeting on HIV, TB and other occupational health issues for health workers.
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Video
HIV/AIDS and Health Care Workers: An Interview with Anna Torriente
05 July 2010
ILO TV interviews ILOAIDS Senior Legal Officer Anna Torriente about health care workplaces and HIV/AIDS in light of a new international labour standard on HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The ILO and WHO are to hold a joint tripartite experts meeting on HIV, TB & other occupational health for health workers, which will include a discussion on the ILO labour standard.
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Poster
Poster - 2010 World Day for Safety and Health at Work
28 April 2010
Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work
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Poster
Postcard - 2010 World Day for Safety and Health at Work
28 April 2010
Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work
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Publication
Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work
28 April 2010
The booklet calls for the design and development of innovative national and regional strategies and programmes, emphasizing the roles of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, safety and health practitioners and other stakeholders. It also recognizes ILO’s responsibility in spreading a preventive culture, through its standards and technical know-how, looking forward to a joint effort in reducing work-related fatalities, accidents and diseases.
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Publication
ILO List of Occupational Diseases (revised 2010)
25 March 2010
This new list of occupational diseases reflects the state-of-the-art development in the identification and recognition of occupational diseases in the world of today. It indicates clearly where prevention and protection should take place. This ILO list represents the latest worldwide consensus on diseases which are internationally accepted as caused by work. This list can serve as a model for the establishment, review and revision of national lists of occupational diseases. The world’s working population and their families will benefit from this new list.
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Video
WIND of Change
05 February 2010
More than one billion people worldwide earn their income from agriculture, working steadily to increase productivity and their standard of living. But farming brings risks that can undermine or even eliminate the gains hard won in the fields. From manual labour to machines, dangerous chemicals and unsanitary workplaces: farming families struggle with dangers at work and at home every day, but there's a WIND of change coming, as ILO TV reports.
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Publication
Employment injury benefits: Occupational accident and disease insurance systems
01 January 2010
2009
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Video
Public Private Partnerships for Decent Work
16 November 2009
The ILO works with companies and foundations to tackle important global labour market issues; to support sustainable enterprises and entrepreneurs; to enhance value in supply chains; to promote social protection; and to resolve specific problems in the world of work. This film shows examples of ILO partnerships with FIFA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Michelin, the Haitian garment industry, and the supermarket chain Superspar.
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Publication
Selling Ships for Recycling
01 October 2009
Guidelines on Transitional Measures for Shipowners
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Video
Video message of Dr Sameera Al-Tuwaijri on the 5th edition of the Encyclopaedia
21 May 2009
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Video
Building a Safety and Health Culture in India’s Construction Sector
18 May 2009
In India’s construction sites, women are doing much of the unskilled heavy work. Effective training can give them a chance to overcome dangerous work practices and provide opportunities to secure skilled, better paying jobs that improve the quality of their lives.
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Publication
Health and life at work: A basic human right
28 April 2009
“Everyone has the right to life, to work... to just and favourable conditions of work... Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family...” (From the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, UN, 1948).