ECHA has publishes a roadmap towards enhancing the quality of information communicated in the exposure scenarios included in the REACH chemical safety reports and in the extended safety data sheets. These documents hold essential information...
Six times the number of workers die from occupational-related diseases than die from workplace injuries. While many EHS programs focus on the prevention of workplace injuries and on workplace conditions...
The average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union, including Croatia, stood at 38.1 hours in 2012, the same as for the EU27 in 2011, according to Eurofound’s...
The ILO teams up with the local authorities to help remove and prevent children from entering child labour in urban and rural areas in five states. UJJAIN DISTRICT, Madhya Pradesh,...
Amendments to the Bangladesh labour Act 2006 were adopted on 15 July 2013. Its conformity with international labour standards ratified by Bangladesh will be reviewed by the ILO supervisory machinery...
The bilingual publication of the 2012 Law on Trade Unions was launched on 23 July in Hanoi by the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL). The translation of the...
International Symposium on Culture of Prevention – Future Approaches, to be held on 25–27 September 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. On 29 June 2008, the XVIII World Congress on Safety and...
Last week I spoke at an extraordinary event in Aberdeen – Piper 25. This three-day conference was put on to “reflect, review, reinforce and re-energise” 25 years after the Piper...
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are calling for special attention to child domestic workers on the occasion of the World...
To mark World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO publishes a report outlining the abuses suffered by millions of children working in family homes. An estimated 10.5 million children worldwide...
