Workers’ Regional Digital Academy on ILS in the context of the pandemic

This training aimed to reinforce the role of workers’ organizations in supporting the inclusion of safe and healthy working conditions in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work, and the implications arising out of this for trade unions’ agendas (including violence and harassment as an Important OSH issue). OBJECTIVES At the end of the training participants were able to: • Discuss the implications of including Safe and healthy working conditions within the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work. • Support to TUs to respect, promote and realize the possible future fundamental principle and right at work on safe and healthy working conditions. • Analyze possible impact of including safe and healthy working conditions in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work on free trade agreements, and in the Global Supply Chains. • Discuss the importance of strengthening the capacity of trade unions on OSH in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and return to work. • Know key provisions of international labour standards relevant to provide guidance for the response to the crisis of COVID-19 outbreak and for the recovery stage, including the return to work. • Implications of designing and implementing comprehensive OSH policies and guidelines for the management of violence and harassment, in light of OSH being considered a fundamental principle and right at work. CONTENT The course covered five (5) learning modules: • Module 1. Getting Ready for E-Learning • Module 2. Proposals for including safe and healthy working conditions in the ILO’s framework of fundamental principles and rights at work.. • Module 3. 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. • Module 4: Social dialogue and collective agreements implications • Module 5: Course Wrap up and final evaluation. The course consist of extimated 30 hours of synchronous and asynchronous online learning: live webinars, self-guided learning modules and ecampus tasks 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.