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Welcome to the Global Worker Health Wiki, a knowledge hub on worker health policies, practices, research, and resources from around the world. Our special focus is on women workers in the global supply chains - the most vulnerable and fastest-growing worker segment in the global economy. We take a comprehensive view of worker health and well-being, in line with the 2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and not limited to the typical scope of Occupational Safety & Health (OSH), the de-facto standard today.
We aim to develop a resourceful, authoritative, accessible, and agile knowledge community, building on the strengths of our diverse global network of actors and organizations that have implemented health and well-being programs and policies, benefiting workers, companies, local communities, and countries. We aim to connect the civil societies and policy advocates from different parts of the world to promote collaboration and innovation in worker health and well-being.
Please join us and contribute! Your constructive criticism is absolutely essential!
We invite you to explore our workstreams, projects [?????], organizations, and people and through them discover a wide range of publications, tools, resources, and potential partners, collaborators, and mentors. Please also tell us about your challenges and needs so that we all can find ways to solve problems and empower each other. Please share your own knowledge, perspectives, and expertise so that we can build a critical mass of resources and intellect to enable network synergies and force multiplier effects for the benefit of the most disadvantaged and underserved workers, especially women in the global supply chains.
[SUGGESTION: A more gradual transition from the objective broad worker health agenda to the women worker health focus, as explained in the intro paragraphs above]
[SUGGESTION: There are many deficits in worker health in general and it is important not to conceal those if you want to be perceived as non-biased and constructive. Only in relation to this general context can the women worker health issues be properly explained, accepted, and supported as an objective, non-biased priority that doesn't cause any neglect to the other common acute deficits...]
[SUGGESTION: That is why I would first put below the section on Workplace Health Beyond OSH and then the section on Why Workplace Women’s Health as a Focus]
What its means for business to Address Workplace Health Beyond OSH?
[Separate Page/Box on Home page]
[SUGGESTION: I would title this section as " Workplace Health Beyond OSH " and start in the general context and then would mention the specific business-specific context ]
While Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is critically important, it is focused primarily on safety and workplace-related illness. Yet, the impact and influence of the workplace on worker health goes beyond physical boundary of the worksite defined by OSH. The workplace is a “social determinant” of women and men worker’s overall health. This falls squarely in the area of business requirement by the UN Guiding Principles to respect workers’ health rights, which encompass more than just OSH.
Occupational health and public health represent the divided mind of health world..... [to be continued]
Links to key docs:
- Berkeley Law Review article
- Blogs?
Why Workplace Women’s Health as a Focus?
[Separate Page/Box on Home page]
Women’s health, including reproductive health, is a typically underappreciated [or unacknowledged] feature of the work life and professional growth of women. This is particularly true of poor women in the supply chains of major brands, manufacturers, and producers. [ UNCLEAR MEANING: And it is true for many organizations that deal business’s role [???] in gender equality, women’s empowerment, labor and OSH rights, ESG and living wages. ]
[DW: Millions of women workers in the low- and middle-income countries, and the practices of manufacturers and producers that shape their overall health status and access to health products, services and information. The question is what is the role of companies in ensuring the overall health rights of their own workers and workers in their supply chains.... [to be continued]]
Workstreams
Our community concentrates its efforts in the following workstreams:
- Research and M&E on Workplace Health
- Global Policies in Workplace Health
- National Policies in Workplace Health
- Programs in Workplace Health and Well-Being
- Workplace Clinics and Health Staff
- Assessment Tools and Measures
And here is a detailed breakdown of the workstreams:
- Research and M&E on Workplace Health
- Overview of issues and challenges
- Business case/ROI for workplace health
- Benefits to women and men workers
- Environment and worker health and well-being
- Data holes
- sex disaggregated data
- data on workplace health professions
Research/M&E on Workplace Health
o Research organizations on workplace health/wellbeing
Harvard Shine
Tufts Labor Lab
Global Workplace Health Policy
• Intro: overview on issues and challenges
o Major publications on this topic ?
• Subsections:
o Global Sustainability & ESG Policies
EU
ILO regs on Gender-Based Violence
o Voluntary Principles
UN Global Compact Principles
Women’s Empowerment Principles
o Investors & Financial Institutions
National Workplace Health Policy
• Intro: overview on issues and challenges
• Country Women’s and Worker Health policies/regulations
o Bangladesh
o Cambodia
o Philippines
Workplace Health & Wellbeing Programs
• Intro: overview on issues and challenges
• Topics (this might just get wrapped into intro
o Collective Action
o E-learning & Virtual Training
o Management practices?
• Countries
o Bangladesh
o Cambodia
o Egypt
o Ghana
o Haiti
o India
o Lesotho
o Pakistan
o Philippines
o Vietnam
o
Workplace Clinics & Health Staff
• Intro: overview on issues and challenges
• Areas
o Workplace Clinic & Health Professionals
o Management practices (links in both workstreams
o Insurance
o Telehealth
o Worker management committees
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Assessment Tools/Measures
• Intro: overview on issues and challenges
• Types of Tools
o Frameworks
o survey instruments
o assessments
ICRW
UN Global Compact Gender Gap Assessment
o rankings
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