Heat: a silent killer at workThe Future of Work Podcast (ilo.org) The rising temperatures associated with climate change mean that more people are experiencing heat stress at work. A recent ILO report, ensuring safety and health at work in a changing climate estimated that nearly 19,000 workers die annually because of excessive heat, and more than […]

Heat Stress Webinar, June 13 Hello Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) members and friends.  With climate change, many of us are dealing with how to protect workers as temperatures climb to unprecedented levels. Please attend our next free webinar on   Heat Stress June 13, 202410:00 a.m. Eastern DaylightTime (EDT)14:00 UTC2:00 p.m. GMT   Speaker: Dr.

The Saeed Awan Lecture “Immersive Occupational Health: An innovative approach to reaching rural workers” Presented by: Dua Awan and Abdul Rehman Alvi, M.D On ZoomOctober 26, 20239:00 a.m. EDT, 13:00 UTC, 18:00 Lahore (Pakistan) Workers in traditional rural industries and international supply chains seldom receive much occupational health attention. Saeed Awan took this as a

Do you want a mentor? We all can benefit from having  a mentor at some stage of our career, whether we are a young person just beginning our career, or a grizzled veteran embarking on a different aspect of a field like OHS, that we may have been have been involved in for years. The

Essential, but Treated as Expendable Farmworkers are vital to climate justice. One of the pressing elements of climate change is the question of who is most at risk. Farmworkers are clearly among those who are paying the heaviest price for record-breaking heat. Their labors are essential for a steady food supply, while their health is

Black Lung Resurgence in Appalachia David Goldsmith has just drawn our attention to an article from Kaiser Health News on coal worker’s pneumoconiosis arising from high silica exposures among coal miners in central Appalachia. “I just became aware of this alarming article about CWP and high silica exposures in today’s US coal mines. Please share

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WHWB has added a new committee and project. The Nail Salon Workers Network is a group of salon workers and occupational health professionals concerned about the health hazards faced by nail salon workers. This committee is presently co-chaired by Anne Rochon Ford and Cate Ahrens. More details can be found here. If you are interested

Join WHWB-Australia We are inviting people to join our organization and lend their expertise, enthusiasm and time to fundraising and developing projects to help prevent occupational illness worldwide. Anyone studying, working or interested in occupational health, safety and hygiene is welcome to join.  

On June 10, 2022, following several years of preparation, the principle of a safe and healthy working environment was added to the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. (The other core principles are: freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining; the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory