Training workers on environmental safety, health and welfare

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Workers and their representatives should have access to adequate training to augment environmental awareness, ensure their safety and health, and improve their economic and social welfare. Such training should ensure that the necessary skills are available to promote sustainable livelihoods and improve the working environment. Trade unions, employers, governments and international agencies should cooperate in assessing training needs within their respective spheres of activity. Workers and their representatives should be involved in the design and implementation of worker training programmes conducted by employers and governments.

1. Training workers
2. Safeguarding employee health
3. Promoting good practice in health, environment and safety management
4. Practicing industrial safety
5. Implementing environmental health strategy
6. Expanding trade union participation in sustainable development
7. Expanding environmental management education and training
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1. Reducing health risks to workers in transport, storage and communication industries
2. Reducing health risks to workers in agricultural and livestock production
3. Increasing trained workforce
4. Assessing health risks of industry and energy production

1. Involving workers in the design and implementation of environmental training programmes
2. Creating environmental health standards

1. Training health workers

1. Welfare
2. Safety
3. Health