Employment Injury Schemes and the Prevention of Occupational Accidents and Diseases
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Employment Injury Schemes and the Prevention of Occupational Accidents and Diseases
26 mai–6 juin 2025
Le cours est disponible en English
Présentation du cours
Employment injury schemes are part of the social security branch in charge of the workers' insurance for occupational accidents and diseases. Traditionally, they provide for compensation and coverage of the medical and rehabilitation costs of the injured and sick workers. Increasingly, the prevention of the occupational risks is becoming part of the mandate of these schemes and many world-wide experiences and best practices show that these schemes can play very important role to this purpose.
Through this course, the ILO intends to disseminate its international experience and facilitate knowledge sharing and discussion of selected innovative and successful strategies to promote OSH preventive and proactive approaches of the employment injury schemes."
Groupes cibles
- Decision-makers of ministries and institutions in charge of social security and occupational safety and health, Employers' and workers' organizations representatives involved in the governance of the OSH and social security,
- Technical staff from employment injury institutions,
- Other people from training institutions involved in OSH and social security issues. International organizations face the challenge of managing Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). Frequently, the nature of their operations, legal framework of reference or lack of an integrated approach has resulted in unsatisfactory management systems for the organizations themselves and their members.
Objectives
The general 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 the prevention approach on occupational safety and health based on ILO standards and best practices. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role and functions of employment injury schemes in international labour standards and other related instruments.
- Describe the organizational models of the employment injury schemes of selected countries as well as their policies, strategies and best practices on prevention activities.
- Advise in the implementation of policies, strategies and approaches of employment injury schemes addressed to the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.
- Establish conclusions and recommendations on the feasibility of applying different analysed approaches and experiences to national and institutional contexts.
- Transfer knowledge on the different best practices on Employment injury schemes
Contents
- The ILO experiences and the international labour standards on employment injury schemes with particular attention to Convention No. 121.
- The employment injury institutions: structure and financing. Compensation, medical assistance and rehabilitation.
- National OSH governance.
- The employment injury institutions and the function of prevention.
- The recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases.
- The list of occupational accidents and diseases.
- The costs of accidents: impact at the national level and at the enterprise level.
- The economic incentives for prevention.
- Introduction to occupational safety and health: ILO principles and fundamentals.
- Information and technical assistance strategies.
- The experiences of different national institutions: organizational models and selected best practices.
- Contemporary challenges.
