BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.10//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:Network Calendar NAME:Network Calendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20030330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20031026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:World Day for Safety and Health at Work DTSTAMP:20221223T192523Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:279-7-014e54df8e55db0ddedbc25b476240ab@moraga.se ORGANIZER;CN="Julio Moraga":julio@moraga.se DESCRIPTION:\n Having a strong OSH system\, which includes meaningful pa rticipation of governments\, employers\, workers\, public health actors an d all relevant parties at the national and enterprise level\, has been cru cial in protecting working environments and safeguarding the safety and he alth of workers.\n\n\n\n Through effective social dialogue\, governments a nd social partners actively participate in all phases of OSH decision-maki ng processes. This is important from the development and revision of OSH p olicy and regulatory frameworks to address persistent and new OSH challeng es\, to actual application at workplace level. Social dialogue not only co ntributes to improving OSH policies and strategies\, but it is also essent ial to build ownership and commitment\, easing the way for their rapid and more effective implementation.\n\n\n\n At the workplace level\, a strong OSH culture is one in which the right to a safe and healthy working enviro nment is valued and promoted by both management and workers. A positive OS H culture is built on inclusion\, through the meaningful involvement of al l parties in the ongoing improvement of safety and health at work. In a wo rkplace with a strong OSH culture\, workers feel comfortable raising conce rns about possible OSH risks or hazards in the workplace and management is proactive in collaborating with workers to find appropriate\, effective a nd sustainable solutions. This requires open communication and dialogue bu ilt on trust and mutual respect.\n\n\n\n As we continue to live through a global health crisis and face ongoing OSH risks in the world of work\, we must continue to move toward building a strong safety and health culture a t all levels.\n\n\n\n Background\n\n In 2003\, the International Labour Or ganization (ILO)\, began to observe World Day in order to stress the preve ntion of accidents and diseases at work\, capitalizing on the ILO's tradit ional strengths of tripartism and social dialogue.\n\n\n\n This celebratio n is an integral part of the Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and He alth of the ILO\, as documented in the Conclusions of the International La bour Conference in June 2003. One of the main pillars of the Global Strate gy is advocacy\, the World Day for Safety and Health at Work is a signific ant tool to raise awareness of how to make work safe and healthy and of th e need to raise the political profile of occupational safety and health.\n \n\n\n 28 April is also the International Commemoration Day for Dead and I njured Workers organized worldwide by the trade union movement since 1996. \n\n\n\n Prevention of occupational accidents and diseases\n\n The annual World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April promotes the preventio n of occupational accidents and diseases globally. It is an awareness-rais ing campaign intended to focus international attention on the magnitude of the problem and on how promoting and creating a safety and health culture can help reduce the number of work-related deaths and injuries.\n\n\n\n E ach of us is responsible for stopping deaths and injuries on the job. As g overnments we are responsible for providing the infrastructure — laws an d services — necessary to ensure that workers remain employable and that enterprises flourish\; this includes the development of a national policy and programme and a system of inspection to enforce compliance with occup ational safety and health legislation and policy. As employers we are resp onsible for ensuring that the working environment is safe and healthy. As workers we are responsible to work safely and to protect ourselves and not to endanger others\, to know our rights and to participate in the impleme ntation of preventive measures.\n\n\n\n Emerging risks at work\n\n New and emerging occupational risks may be caused by technical innovation or by s ocial or organizational change\, such as:\n\n\n\n New technologies and pro duction processes\, e.g.\, nanotechnology\, biotechnology\n\n New working conditions\, e.g.\, higher workloads\, work intensification from downsizin g\, poor conditions associated with migration for work\, jobs in the infor mal economy\n\n Emerging forms of employment\, e.g.\, self-employment\, ou tsourcing\, temporary contracts\n\n They may be more widely recognized thr ough better scientific understanding\, e.g.\, the effects of ergonomic ris ks on musculoskeletal disorders.\n\n\n\n They may be influenced by changes in perceptions about the importance of certain risk factors\, e.g.\, the effects of psychosocial factors on work-related stress.\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20030428 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR