UNIDO course recognises World Day for Safety and Health at Work
For twenty years, April 28 has been World Day for Safety and Health at Work, to highlight the need to prevent accidents and diseases at work.
This year, the United Nations is highlighting emerging occupational risks that may be caused by technical innovation or by social or organizational change, such as new technologies and production processes, and new working conditions, including higher workloads, work intensification from downsizing, and poor conditions associated with migration for work.
As a contribution to the day of recognition, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has launched a new course, "Occupational Safety and Health Aspects of Leather Manufacturing".
The interactive training course makes use of resources and tools developed by other organizations such as the Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community (COTANCE), the Leather Working Group (LWG), the Sustainable Leather Foundation (SLF), and the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies (IULTCS).
Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, secretary general of COTANCE, said: “We want the appalling images of sub-standard tanneries circulating on the web to become something of the past...COTANCE welcomes the excellent training materials that UNIDO has developed.”
Details of the course can be found here with further reading available here
