Wednesday 27 April 2016

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2016, April 28.

Всемирный день безопасности и здоровья на рабочем месте, 28 апреля.
World Day for Safety and Health at Work, April 28.
世界日安全與健康工作, 4月28日.
Día Mundial de la Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo, 28 de abril.
Journée mondiale pour la sécurité et la santé au travail, 28 Avril.


The Theme for the World Day For Safety and Health at Work 2016 is "Workplace Stress : A collective Challenge "





2016年主题:“工作压力,共同的挑战
Theme 2016 : 'Workplace stress: It’s time to lift the burden'
Tema 2016 : Стрес на робочому місці: настав час зняти тягар.
Tema 2016 :“Estrés en el Trabajo: Un reto colectivo”.
Thème 2016 : «Le stress au travail: un défi collectif».




Statement by Director General, Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day for Safety and Health at Work, April 28 2016.

This World Day for Safety and Health  focuses on the toll taken on the health and wellbeing of workers worldwide by stress in their working environment.
 
Target 8 of Goal 8  of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development  calls for “safe and secure working environments for all workers” - securing safe workplaces extends beyond the protection of workers’ physical safety to their mental and psychological wellbeing.   
 
Work-related stress affects workers in all professions in developed and developing countries alike. It can gravely harm not only workers’ health but also, and all too often, the wellbeing of their families.
 
Globalization and technological change have transformed work and employment patterns in ways that sometimes contribute to work-related stress. High unemployment levels, particularly in the absence of adequate social protection measures can also have undesirable consequences for the mental health of workers.
 
Enterprises are not spared and they face the consequences of work-related stress on their overall performance with increased absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover, and difficult labour relations.
 
More data and analysis is needed to fully quantify the financial costs of workplace stress but it is already abundantly clear that the burden is considerable. A recent study cited in the ILO report, Workplace stress: a collective challenge , issued for this day, indicates that more than 40 million people are affected by work-related stress within the EU and that the estimated cost of work-related depression is €617 billion a year.
 
While much still needs to be done to reduce stress at work, we can say that in recent years there have been welcome developments in understanding the issue.  Awareness has increased and in most countries policymakers, social partners and professional networks are becoming more involved in the design of legislation, policy, strategies and tools for the assessment and management of work-related stress.
 
It is clear that the protection of workers’ mental health must focus on preventive strategies. Assessing and managing psychosocial risks at their origin will help craft the collective and individual measures needed to improve the quality of working life for women and men.
 
The ILO is committed to work with governments, workers and employers and their organizations around the globe to design and implement effective national, regional and enterprise level policies to prevent and minimise work-related stress.

 
Guy Ryder.
International labour Organization
 
 
'Workplace stress: It’s time to lift the burden' .
 
In recent years, there has been growing attention to the impact of psychosocial risks and work-related stress among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Work-related stress is now generally acknowledged as global issue affecting all countries, all professions and all workers both in developed and developing countries. In this complex context, the workplace is at the same time an important source of psychosocial risks and the ideal venue to address them in order to protect the health and well-being of workers.
 
 
 
Workplace Stress
 
PUBLICATIONS :
 
WHO report, Preventing Health Workers Series.
 
ILO/WHO Joint Committee Reports on Occupational Health
 
WHO’s work on occupational health is governed by the Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health 2008-2017, endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2007.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This year, “Workplace Stress: a collective challenge” is the theme of the campaign of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The report will draw attention to current global trends on work-related stress and its impact.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Occupational Safety and Health : e-labadminOSH DVD 2015
 

Occupational Safety and Health


     

 
 RESOURCES :
 
-  Creating safe and healthy workplaces : Checkpoints app series , OSH phone apps : E-tools: stress, ergonomics, agriculture.
 
 

"Safe Workplace Makes SMEs Productive"

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