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Dr Jukka Takala
Workplace Safety and Health Institute, Singapore
International Commission of Occupational Health
Challenges at Work
Priorities and Strategies
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THE CONCEPT OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE
CONTEMPORARY WORKING LIFE
1. Substance priorities
Death, disability and disease, risk management 2.0,
exposure elimination, and better analysis on:
- non-communicable: cancer, CVD, respiratory...
- communicable: tropical and others
- injuries, in particular in low/mid income economies
- musculo-skeletal,
- psychosocial factors and disorders,
2. Collaboration with stakeholders
- regional bodies,
Priorities, cntd.
- their member States and stakeholders, advocate
adopted solutions and strategies,
- establish and collaborate with programmes for
developing occupational health services for all,
total workplace safety and health, compliance,
and protection, prevention, health promotion
action at work, mindset of Zero Harm and Vision Zero,
- Propose/initialize new campaigns and
programmes, such as Eliminating work-related cancer.
3. Dialogue, communication, networking
New and emerging risks
Ionizing High injury risk Lack of guidance Poor hygiene, Poor design of Poor
radiation, or poor gvt lack of seats, tables, organisational
radioactive policies, poor knowledge tools, processes culture
materials legislation and
poor enforcement
and tripartite
collaboration
UV-radiation Chemicals Lack of incentive- Protection Low Role ambiguity
based against temperatures, or conflict,
compensation animals, vibration unclear or
system insects, snakes changing
priorities
ETS (passive ETS (passive Lack or or poor Job insecurity
smoking at smoking at OH services
work) work)
Singapore 2.3
1.8 (in 2014)
Policy,
strategy,
programmes,
.. Systems
approach
management
Collaboration
Technical
assistance,
advice, OSH Enforcement,
Services compliance,
inspection
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Strategic Approach for Strengthening of
Strategic Approach on
National OSH Systems through National Programme
Occupational Safety and Health
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National profile
National is a review
Profile, selected of existing
indicators
safety and health conditions in a country
Ratification of ILO OSH-standards (100-0%)
100 %
Awareness campaigns, such as April 28 (0-10) Labour inspectors, number (0-10/100,000)
benchmark country
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Occupational & Environemental Medicine
Industrial Health
Traditionally: Incidence prevalence and death…
• Incidence is the rate of new cases of a disease
– generally reported as the number of new cases in
a period, e.g. per year
– more meaningful when reported as a fraction of
the population at risk, e.g., per 100,000 or per
million
• Prevalence is the number of cases alive with
the disease during a period of time
(period prevalence) Incidence
DALY= Disability
Adjusted Life Years
Occupational particulates
Occupational cancer, underestimated
self rated health in the
German population aged 51-65
health good/
poor
very good
• To achieve a sustainable
working life
• The challenge to
employment
• A holistic approach
• Good Work!
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The global effort to improve working
conditions…
… to promote “labour rights, decent working conditions and environmental
protection” as key players in global supply chains…