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23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
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Why Organising for Health and Safety at Work is Fundamental

Special Session

Special Session

9:30 am

27 November 2023

Meeting Room C4.2

Session Description

Session Programme

Unions have made the world safer (tackling hazards like asbestos and silica) and must address issues like psychosocial risks, AI, cancer, cardiovascular disease and climate change. Now that a safe and healthy working environment has been recognized by the ILO as a fundamental principle and right at work, what needs to happen to ensure workers organize to deliver that right in practice and reduce workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths?