On this year's World Day for Health and Safety at Work, 28 April,
WHO joins the International Labour Organization in calling for concerted
global action to promote occupational safety and health in a "green
economy" - one of the themes of the upcoming RIO+20 United Nations
Conference on Sustainable Development, 20-22 June. Ensuring workers'
health is an essential prerequisite for sustainable development.
Presently, more than 2 million people die each year as a result of
work-related illness or injuries and some 180 million people fall ill
because of their work, according to ILO. Only 15% of workers have access
to occupational health services, and millions of workers worldwide are
impoverished every year due to catastrophic health expenditures from
illness or injuries related to their jobs.
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