Gcina Sibonangaye Nxumalo
Many Labour Inspectorates lack the financial and human resources for providing labour inspectors with adequate initial and on-the-job training, or to continuously improve the knowledge and competencies of labour inspectors faced with new regulations, risks, and technologies. In supporting Member States facing this challenge, LABADMIN/OSH (the ILO department in charge of Labour Administration, Labour Inspection and Occupational Safety and Health), developed a training curriculum for the development of the competences of managers and field labour inspectors covering a wide range of aspects related to labour inspection. Based in this training curriculum, the International Training Centre of the ILO developed and implemented an E-Learning course on Labour Inspection including 7 relevant modules. This initial course has been delivered (and still is being delivered) using an online modality. Several hundred of inspectors and other interested people involved in Labour inspection issues, have been benefit of this training in the last four years.
This present Advanced Course has been developed by the International Training Centre of the ILO in collaboration with LABADMIN/OSH, to complement the previous course including additional relevant contents from principles, policies and strategies (such as for example, the policy and planning of Labour Inspection or the institutional strategies for cooperation and partnership with other institutions) to practical tools and methods for field inspection visits (such as for example the Investigation of work related accidents and diseases or the strategies to prevent stress at work, or violence and harassment at the workplace or discriminatory practices).
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the training programme participants were able to:
Describe the process and the main contents for drafting a labour inspection policy, and for the planning, monitoring, control and evaluation of the activities of the labour inspectorate.
Identify the main contents and institutions and organizations with which Labour inspectorates need to cooperate and work in partnership in order to increase its effectiveness and maximize their impact.
Address the needs of vulnerable groups of workers (child labour, forced labour, migrant workers and workers with disabilities) to improve the working conditions of such groups.
Identify discriminatory labour in employment situations, as well as apply an intervention methodology and tools to promote equality.
Explain the range of inspection actions, both proactive and reactive, that inspectors might carry out to prevent stress at work.
Apply national inspection policies and strategies at the enterprise level to prevent violence and harassment at work.
Become familiar with the process of investigating occupational accidents and diseases as well as applying the adequate methods and techniques.
CONTENT
The course consisted of 7 modules:
Policy and planning of Labour Inspection
Cooperation and partnership on Labour Inspection
Labour Inspection and non-discrimination
Investigation of work-related accidents and diseases
Labour inspection and psychosocial risks: stress
Violence and harassment in the workplace: Labour Inspection policies
Labour inspection and vulnerable workers
NUMBER OF HOURS: The E-Learning course on Labour Inspection (advanced) took place online over a period of 8 weeks (60h).