Preventing and Addressing Violence and Harassment in the World of Work through Occupational Safety and Health in the Americas

OBJECTIVES This training aimed to reinforce the role of workers' organizations in taking advantage of the inclusion of safe and healthy working environment in the ILO's framework of fundamental principles and rights at work, and the implications arising out of this for trade unions' agendas, focusing on violence and harassment as an Important OSH issue. (Match with «Rights and Equality» ITUC priority). Outcomes: • Implications of including a safe and healthy working environment in the ILO's framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. • Linkages between implementing comprehensive OSH policies and addressing violence and harassment in the world of work. • Underlining the importance and new approaches of social dialogue and collective agreements for implementing safe and healthy working environments, based on comprehensive OSH policies that are also free from violence and harassment. CONTENTS • Safe and healthy Working Environment inclusion in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. • Implications of designing and implementing comprehensive OSH policies and guidelines for the management of violence and harassment in the world of work, in light of OSH being considered a fundamental principle and right at work. • Construction of masculinity and its relation to health and safety at work. • Social dialogue and collective agreements implications.