ILO / BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS NEW CONVENTION

Representatives of Government, employers’ and workers’ organizations at the 113th International Labour Conference adopted a new Convention and accompanying Recommendation on protection against biological hazards in the working environment. ILO

• Video Length: 00:02:27
• Production Date: 13 June 2025
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: GILBERT HOUNGBO
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION - ILO
• Subject Topical: LABOUR; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
• Geographic Subject: SWITZERLAND
• MAMS Id: 3411196
• Parent Id: 3411196
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STORY: ILO / BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS NEW CONVENTION
TRT: 02:27
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT ILO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 13 JUNE 2025, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Various shots, meeting room at Palais des Nations
2. Med shot, ILO’s Assistant Director-General Mia Seppo gives a thumbs up to a colleague in response to the adoption of the Convention and Recommendation
3. Wide shot, press conference briefing on the adoption of the Convention and Recommendation
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General for Jobs and Social Protection, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The International Labour Conference has indeed adopted the first ever Convention and Recommendation on biological hazards. This is really important. It's a first. It's also a first after safe and healthy working environment was elevated to a fundamental principle and right at work. It's also very timely. We're coming out of a world that learned lesson from the COVID pandemic. We're also seeing how climate change is further increasing the risk of biological hazards. So, the comprehensiveness of the Convention, backed by the Recommendation, is really providing for safety across sectors and inclusive of all workers in terms of this risk to the working environment. “
5. Med shot, Seppo addressing press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Seppo, Assistant Director-General for Jobs and Social Protection, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“So, you have the Convention which is binding. Then you have the Recommendation providing technical guidance. The Recommendation goes into much greater detail. It's looking both at prevention, it's looking at protection and it's looking at resilience. And it's providing for the obligations for employers and workers. And of course, this has been carefully negotiated in a tripartite setting.”
7. Med shot, 113th International Labour Conference President Edgar Moyo and ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo sign the documents to make official the adoption of Convention, No. 192, and
Recommendation, No. 209
8. Pan right, photographers take photos of signing
9. Med shot, Moyo and Houngbo hold up the signed documents
10. Pan right, delegates applauding

Storyline

Representatives of Government, employers’ and workers’ organizations at the 113th International Labour Conference adopted a new Convention and accompanying Recommendation on protection against biological hazards in the working environment.

Talking to reporters, ILO Assistant Director-General Mia Seppo said, “this is really important. It's a first. It's also a first after a safe and healthy working environment was elevated to a fundamental principle and right at work,” adding that “it's also very timely” as “we're coming out of a world that learned lessons from the COVID pandemic. We're also seeing how climate change is further increasing the risk of biological hazards.”

Convention, No. 192, and Recommendation, No. 209, were adopted by delegates on the final day of the conference, 13 June, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.