GENEVA, October 2009
Presented by
P.K. Abeytunga,
MSc., PhD
Vice-President and Director General
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Canadian Centre for Occupational
Health and Safety
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and
Safety (CCOHS) is an active long standing
member of both the ILO’s CIS Centres Network
and WHO’s Collaborating Centres Network.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Today
I have been asked to talk about:
Benefits of networking
Concrete opportunities for the ILO and WHO
networks to work together
A specific occupational health and safety issue
that network members collaborated to make
successful.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Benefits of Networking
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Networks
There are many types of networks.
For example:
•Business Networks
•Social Networks
•Biological Networks
•Technological Networks, etc.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
WHO CC Network
and CIS Centres Network
The WHO CCs Network and the CIS Centres
Network are both organizational networks.
Specifically, they are both,
“International Co-operative Networks” in which
the membership consist of selected organizations
on occupational health and safety.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Purpose
The overall purpose of both networks is to
promote and advance workplace health, safety
and well being globally.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Benefits
Facilitate:
A more equitable distribution of relevant information
Sharing of know how, expertise, resources, experiences
among centres
Working together to raise the profile of workplace health
and safety
collaborative research
Bi-lateral, multi-lateral technical cooperation on projects
among institutions from different countries
Partnerships among institutions
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Benefits (cont’d)
Promote:
Technical cooperation among institutions
Raising awareness on issues
Mutual support among centres
Sharing of education, training, resources and techniques
Multi-centre projects
Opportunities to learn from the work and experience of
others
A better understanding of issues, their impact, possible
solutions, best practices.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Opportunities
Opportunities for the ILO and WHO Networks to
work together
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Technology
Technology plays a pivotal role in realizing
optimum benefits from the Networks. ILO and
WHO Networks, both centrally orchestrated are
able to undertake a well planned, and carefully
managed systematic programme toward
achieving their objectives.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Together
Together, through close communication, joint
undertakings, sharing, transparency and active
collaboration there are huge opportunities to
accomplish much more than what each network
can achieve separately.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Joint Undertakings
For example, through joint undertakings:
Raise the profile of workplace health, safety and well
being globally
Develop technological capabilities and instruments
together for shared use
Undertake joint projects and programs involving and
benefiting from the competencies of members from both
networks
Avoid duplication
Increase outreach and impact through regional efforts of
both the ILO and WHO
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
SUCCESS STORY
Specific issue of success by a Network
• Raising the profile of workplace health,
safety and well being globally
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Role of WHO CCs
The role played by the WHO Collaborating Centre Network
in:
Global Strategy on Occupational Health for All endorsed
by the World Health Assembly in 1996
Global Plan of Action for Workers Health endorsed by the
World Health Assembly in 2007, and
The series of Work plans of the Global Network in
advancing the profile and performance in workplace
health, safety and well being globally.
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Thank You
For further information contact
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Phone: 905-572-2981 Ext. 4537
E-mail: abey@ccohs.ca
P.K. Abeytunga
abey@ccohs.ca
1-800-668-4284
www.ccohs.ca
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