Safety and health at work

Enhancing workers organizations’ capacity to implement OSH training programmes in the formal and informal economy

Workers organizations and trade union representatives gained capacity in designing and implementing a training programme to promote compliance on occupational safety and health at work, especially among young workers in a training of trainers of the ILO’s SafeYouth@Work Project.

The ILO, through its project on Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy or SafeYouth@Work Project, funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) recognized the need to support workers organizations in building and enhancing their capacity.

The SafeYouth@Work Project gathered 30 key representatives from workers organizations and trade unions from the private and public sector, as well as the informal economy in a training of trainers programme. The programme covered training design and implementation to promote compliance on occupational safety and health, especially among young workers.

Ms Katherine Brimon, Programme Coordinator of the SafeYouth@Work Project presented key issues, statistics and challenges on OSH, especially among young workers. She also explained about the impact of hazardous work, including risks that young workers face.

Workers organizations and trade union representatives, including young workers learned about the role of training in OSH and transformative training in a structure learning experience. The programme also featured site visits on OSH to learn more about setting behavioural objectives setting, while designing the training and development programme on OSH.

Mr Wayne Bacale, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer provided a picture of knowledge, attitude and behaviour of young workers on OSH. He shared key elements based on an assessment of a culture of OSH prevention in the Philippines.

Representatives from workers organizations and trade unions further appreciated the programme as they gained knowledge, skills and capacity to implement training programmes for workers in the formal and informal economy to promote OSH compliance.

The programme also provided an opportunity to further understand the issue of occupational safety and health, as well as to develop and enhance instructional materials on promoting OSH for workers in the formal and informal economy with focus in construction, manufacturing and agriculture.

The SafeYouth@Work Project aims to improve OSH conditions of young workers, and to promote a culture of prevention in the country. The project targets young workers aged 15 to 24 years old in the construction, manufacturing and agriculture sectors.



Funding is provided by the United States Department of Labor under cooperative agreement number IL-26690-14-75-K-11.

This material does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the United States Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the United States Government. One hundred percentage of the total costs of the project or programme is financed with Federal funds, for a total of 11,443,156 dollars.