International labour standards and instruments related to occupational safety and health are strengthened and promoted.

 Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health 2024-30: ACTION AREA I.

1.1. Initiatives to promote the ratification and implementation of international labour standards are developed and carried out. 

1.1.1. Global campaign to promote the ratification and implementation of the fundamental Conventions on OSH, Nos 155 and 187, designed and implemented. 

1.1.2. Complementary initiatives carried out to promote the ratification and implementation of the general provisions standards 1 and the risk-specific and sector-specific standards 2 on OSH. 

1.2. International labour standards on OSH are developed or updated. 

1.2.1. New standard on biological hazards developed.

1.2.2. Instruments concerning chemical hazards consolidated. 

1.2.3. New standard on ergonomics developed. 

1.2.4. Instruments concerning guarding of machinery reviewed.

1.2.5. ILO List of Occupational Diseases updated, to replace the list annexed to Recommendation No. 194, through a meeting of experts (upon request by the Governing Body).

1.3. Risk-specific and sector-specific codes of practice and technical guidelines are developed or updated, in line with international labour standards.

1.3.1. New code of practice on occupational safety and health in aquaculture developed.

1.3.2. Code of practice on safety and health in forestry work reviewed

1.3.3. Code of practice on safety and health in the use of machinery reviewed. 

1.3.4. New technical guidelines on chemical hazards developed. 

1.3.5. Other sector-specific codes of practice developed and/or updated (to be requested by sectoral meeting of experts and mandated by the Governing Body). 

1.4. Tripartite meetings of experts are convened upon request by the Governing Body.

1.4.1. Tripartite meeting of experts organized on OSH in extreme weather events and changing weather patterns. 

1.5. Tripartite consultations on pressing issues are organized upon request by the Governing Body. 1.5.1. The 2023 Bonn Declaration endorsed and a road map on the sound management of chemicals and waste in the world of work developed. 

1.5.2. Actions to be undertaken by the Office in relation to psychosocial risks and mental health at work agreed and followed up