Regional Digital Academy on ILS in the context of the pandemic

This training, which was a collaboration between the ITCILO ACTRAV Turin Programme for Workers’ Activities and the ITUC-Africa, aimed to reinforce workers organizations’ role for including safe and healthy working conditions in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. The course enhanced trade unions understanding on the importance of integrating OSH in the Trade Union Agendas (including violence and harassment as an important OSH issue). OBJECTIVES Upon successful completion of the course, participants are able to : • Understand the possible formulation of safe and healthy working conditions as a fundamental principle and right at work. • Identify international labour standards associated with the principles and rights for safe and healthy working conditions. • Discuss the implications of including Safe and healthy working conditions within the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. • Identify possible building blocks for the inclusion of safe and healthy working conditions in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. • Support TUs to promote and realize the fundamental principle and right at work on safe and healthy working conditions. • Analyze possible impact of revised fundamental principles and rights at work framework on free trade agreements, and in the Global Supply Chains. • Discuss the importance of strengthening the capacity of trade union organization on OSH in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. • Understand the implications of designing and implementing comprehensive OSH policies and guidelines for the management of violence and harassment, being considered OSH as a fundamental right. CONTENT The course covered four (4) learning modules: Module 1. The importance of International Labour Standards in the recovery from the COVID-19. Module 2. Safe and healthy conditions as fundamental principles and rights and work. Module 3. Implementation of comprehensive OSH policies to manage violence and harassment in the world of work. Module 4: Social dialogue and collective bargaining - key tools for achieving OSH focused and gender responsive collective agreements. The course consists of an extimated 24 hours of synchronous and asynchronous online learning: live webinars, self-guided learning modules and ecampus tasks. ECAMPUS The activity was delivered via the E-campus, the education platform of the International Training Centre of the ILO. The platform was used for the distribution of course information, training material, learning tasks, exchanges of good practices and experiences, feedback and multimedia content.