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STORY: ILO / WORK AND SAFETY
TRT: 01:41
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 28 APRIL 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
FILE – 2012, CAMBODIA
1. Various shots, garment workers at work using sewing machines
28 APRIL 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentina Forastieri, Senior specialist on Occupational Health at the International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Work-related stress is today a collective problem and not an individual one. It affects both developed and developing countries, all categories of workers in all professions.”
FILE - NOVEMBER 2015, ZAMBIA
3. Various shots, women clearing weeds with hoe
28 APRIL 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentina Forastieri, Senior specialist on Occupational Health at the International Labour Organization (ILO):
“One of the key elements that would contribute to the improvement of the situation globally is the involvement of policy makers and social dialogue.”
FILE – DECEMBER 2015, COLOMBIA
5. Various shots, female sweet factory workers
28 APRIL 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Valentina Forastieri, Senior specialist on Occupational Health at the International Labour Organization (ILO):
“One of the main things is, for us, the preventive approach is the issue. The way we can handle it is dealing with the causes at the origin. These are psycho-social risks. They can be identified in working conditions, working relations, the organizational work, the way the tasks are designed. And if we deal with those psycho-social risks in the same way we deal with other workplace risks through an assessment and management of those risks to establish the preventive measures, then we can deal with it in a way that we can protect the health and well-being of workers and also contribute to the productivity of the enterprise.”
NOVEMBER 2013, DHAKA, BANGLADESH
7. Various shots, garment workers in factory
Stress at work is not an inevitability. Causes of work-related stress such as excessive job demands, lack of control over work and work-life balance, need to be incorporated into a risk management process and treated like any other workplace risks to protect workers’ health and wellbeing, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO)
“Workplace Stress: a collective challenge” is the theme of the campaign of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The report draws attention to current global trends on work-related stress and its impact.
Valentina Forastieri, Senior specialist on Occupational Health at the ILO, said “work-related stress is today a collective problem and not an individual one. It affects both developed and developing countries, all categories of workers in all professions.”
According to the report, psychosocial risks such as increased competition, higher expectations on performance and longer working hours are contributing to the workplace becoming an ever more stressful environment.
In recent years, there has been growing attention to the impact of psychosocial risks and work-related stress among researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Forastieri said “one of the key elements that would contribute to the improvement of the situation globally is the involvement of policy makers and social dialogue.”
Work-related stress is now generally acknowledged as global issue affecting all countries, all professions and all workers both in developed and developing countries. In this complex context, the workplace is at the same time an important source of psychosocial risks and the ideal venue to address them in order to protect the health and well-being of workers.
Forastieri said that “if we deal with those psycho-social risks in the same way we deal with other workplace risks through an assessment and management of those risks to establish the preventive measures, then we can deal with it in a way that we can protect the health and well-being of workers and also contribute to the productivity of the enterprise.”
