Training courses

December 2017

  1. Event

    Academy on workplace compliance through labour inspection

    27 November - 8 December 2017

October 2017

  1. Applications to participate in the course should be done on-line no later than 1 September 2017

    National Programmes and Systems of Occupational Safety and Health

    2 - 13 October 2017

    The objective of the course is to strengthen capacity for planning, developing and governing national efforts to improve occupational safety and health (OSH). The course will examine the international guidelines and principles of the International Labour Organization, as well as experience of consolidated and successful national OSH systems and programmes.

  2. SafeYouth@Work Event

    Regional Consultations for the Updating of the National Occupational Safety and Health Profile

    10 October 2017

    The Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC), in partnership with the ILO SafeYouth@Work Project, has been convening a series of regional consultations to gather region and sector-specific inputs from tripartite plus stakeholders for the updating of the national OSH profile. So far, regional consultations have been done in Region III at Clark, Pampanga (July 27, 2017), Region VII in Cebu City (September 29, 2017) and Region IVA in Batangas City (October 10, 2017). Similar consultations will also be convened in the Cordillera Administrative Region and in Region XI in the coming days.

  3. SafeYouth@Work Event

    Tripartite Consultations on the Gap Analysis of Key ILO Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Conventions

    27 July - 2 October 2017

    The SafeYouth@Work Project, in collaboration with the Institute for Labour Studies (ILS), embarked on tripartite consultations on the initial results of the Gap Analysis of Key ILO OSH Conventions. During the tripartite consultation workshops convened in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, the ILS presented the current gaps of national laws and practice vis-a-vis key ILO OSH conventions particularly Convention No. 155 (the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981), Recommendation No. 164 (the Occupational Safety and Health Recommendation, 1981), and the Protocol of 2002 to the Occupational Safety and Health Convention (P. No. 155). Discussions also focused on the status of ratification by the Philippines of Convention No. 187 (the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006).

September 2017

  1. Deadline for applications: 30 May 2016

    Master in Occupational Safety and Health

    12 September 2016 - 30 September 2017

    The general objective of the course is to facilitate the knowledge and skills required for dealing effectively with safety and health management in enterprises. The programme incorporates training sessions on all the topics and disciplines relevant to OSH, but also on the development of organizational, managerial and interpersonal skills. Study visits to 15 different productive settings are planned in order to offer direct interaction with experts in the field.

August 2017

  1. SafeYouth@Work Event

    Workshop on Integrating Occupational Safety and Health in the Merit Badge System of the Philippine Boy Scouts

    23 August 2017

    Towards tapping various avenues for increasing young workers knowledge and skills on Occupatoinal Safety and Health (OSH), the USDOL funded SafeYouth@Work Project is partnering with the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) to develop a specialized OSH badge as part of the scout organization's merit badge system.

July 2017

  1. Deadline for application is 12 January 2017

    Distance learning course on occupational safety and health

    6 February - 21 July 2017

    The objective of this distance-learning course on OSH, delivered through an Internet-based platform, is to develop the competencies required for dealing effectively with occupational safety and health issues. The course has an estimated duration of 550 hours of study.

June 2017

  1. Deadline for application is 12 May 2017

    Improving OSH in Small and Micro Enterprises

    12 - 23 June 2017

    The objective of this course is to provide participants with the necessary concepts, methodologies, theories and techniques, and to develop the skills required to advise on and carry out OSH management in SMEs. The course focuses on OSH issues common to SMEs with limited human and financial resources, often operating in informal situations, and disseminates the ILO principles and concepts relating to OSH, participatory approaches and economic incentives for promoting compliance in SMEs, as well as selected international good practices.

  2. Os pedidos de inscrição para este curso deverão ser preenchidos online, até 19 de maio de 2017

    Safety and Health Management at work (Course in Portuguese)

    26 - 7 June 2017

    O objetivo deste programa é fortalecer a capacidade de desenvolvimento e implementação de sistemas eficazes de gestão da segurança e saúde no trabalho (SST) nas empresas. Após a conclusão do curso, os participantes estarão familiarizados com os conceitos básicos e as principais práticas para a gestão da SST na empresa. Especifi camente, os participantes serão capazes de: - Descrever os princípios e diretrizes da OIT sobre a gestão da SST na empresa; - Descrever as principais ações e conteúdos de um sistema de gestão da SST na empresa; - Aconselhar sobre a implementação de um sistema de gestão da SST na empresa; - Analisar o sistema de gestão da SST de uma empresa e propor medidas corretivas para sua otimização; - Transferir de forma ordenada e sistemática conhecimentos sobre sistemas de gestão da SST na empresa

May 2017

  1. Deadline for application is 03 April 2017

    Employment injury schemes and the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases

    8 - 19 May 2017

    The objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of employment injury institutions in managing occupational accidents and diseases and to promote preventive approaches to OSH. The course is based on the ILO's long experience in this field and facilitates the sharing of selected innovative strategies that have been successful in promoting proactive preventive approaches to OSH involving employment injury schemes.

  2. Event

    Sub-Saharan African Tripartite Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health in the Oil and Gas Industry

    17 - 18 May 2017

March 2017

  1. Deadline for application is 17 February 2017

    Labour Inspection of Occupational Safety and Health

    20 - 31 March 2017

    The objective of this course is to improve the performance of labour inspectors concerned with OSH in participating countries by equipping participants with the skills and tools required for conducting effective and efficient OSH inspections based on the ILO standards, ILO principles and fundamentals on OSH, as well as selected good practices on OSH inspections.

  2. SafeYouth@Work Event

    SafeYouth@Work Communications Planning Workshop

    28 February - 2 March 2017

    The ILO SafeYouth@Work Project has convened its implementing partners from government, workers, employers and civic organizations for a Communications Planning Workshop. The event helped implementing partners define their roles in advocating safety and health of young workers in the Philippines.

November 2016

  1. Deadline for applications: 30 September 2016

    National programmes and systems of occupational safety and health

    7 - 18 November 2016

    The general objective of this course is to strengthen the capacity of planning, developing and governing the national efforts to improve occupational safety and health (OSH).

October 2016

  1. Course

    Employment injury schemes and the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases

    10 - 21 October 2016

    The objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity of employment injury institutions for the management of the occupational accidents and diseases and the promotion of a preventive approach to occupational safety and health (OSH).

July 2016

  1. Deadline for applications: 8 January 2016

    Distance learning course on occupational safety and health

    1 February - 28 July 2016

    The general objective of this course is to develop the knowledge and the understanding for managing the occupational safety and health (OSH).

  2. Deadline for applications: 8 May 2016

    Summer School in Occupational Epidemiology

    4 - 15 July 2016

    The general objective of the course is to strengthen the capacity in occupational epidemiology, including the ability to design, implement, analyze and report research projects, establish surveillance and evaluation program, and interpret published reports.

June 2016

  1. Deadline for applications: 29 April 2016

    Occupational safety and health management in the construction sector

    6 - 17 June 2016

    This course aims at strengthening the capacity for the implementation and development of an occupational safety and health (OSH) management approach in the construction enterprises.

December 2015

  1. Event

    Academy on workplace compliance through labour inspection

    30 November - 11 December 2015

    The Academy will provide participants with a unique opportunity to gain new insights, share experiences and reflect on key issues, trends and challenges relating to workplace compliance through labour inspection.

  2. Event

    Labour administration reforms and innovations: Effciency and outreach

    8 - 10 December 2015

    The purpose of the workshop was to achieve synergy between academia, labour practitioners and ILO specialist to enhance the ILO knowledge base and to elaborate practical tools that could be used in technical cooperation activities in the labour administration field.