Dear Colleagues,

The World Health Organization is rapidly upscaling training for health workers via a number of digital, easily accessible learning applications, through the newly established  WHO Academy.

Please help us design and prioritise content and delivery methodologies that support and enable health workers worldwide boost their knowledge and skills related to the COVID-19 outbreak, including for occupational health and safety, by filling in and sharing widely with your networks the following survey. 

The link to the survey tool is https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHH8ZYT

We kindly ask you to fill the survey and share it widely with your networks. This survey is anonymous, your responses will not be associated with your name or email address, and no identifiable information on any individuals will be shared or presented in the survey results.

The protection of health workers and other workers is very important for the COVID19 response.

You can see WHO recommendations for:

• protection of health workers at  https://www.who.int/teams/risk-communication/health-sector
• employers and workers in non-health care workplaces at https://www.who.int/teams/risk-communication/employers-and-workers

Additional WHO and ILO resources for protection of health and safety of health workers and responders:

• WHO and ILO, Occupational safety and health in public health emergencies: A manual for protecting health workers and responders (English) (Chinese) (forthcoming French, Spanish and Arabic) https://www.who.int/publications-detail/occupational-safety-and-health-in-public-health-emergencies-a-manual-for-protecting-health-workers-and-responders
• ILO and WHO, Work improvement in health services, a training tool and action manual  (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arab, Chinese) https://www.ilo.org/sector/Resources/training-materials/WCMS_250540/lang--en/index.htm
• ILO, Guidelines on decent work in public emergency services https://www.ilo.org/sector/activities/sectoral-meetings/WCMS_626551/lang--en/index.htm

You are also welcome to see the whole range of WHO resources for different target groups at the website of the WHO Information Network for Epidemics https://www.who.int/teams/risk-communication

Thank you very much for raising awareness about the protection of health workers and other workers during the COVID19 outbreak and for your active support to disseminate WHO and ILO recommendations. We very much reply on all occupational health and safety professionals to be at the forefront of COVID19 preparedness, response and recovery to ensure that workers in health care facilities, in essential public services and other workplaces, including in informal and gig economy and migrant workers remain healthy, safety and productive during this outbreak

Best regards from Geneva,

Ivan

Ivan D. Ivanov, MD, MPH, PhD

Team Lead, Occupational and Workplace Health

Environment, Climate Change and Health Department

Division of Healthier Populations

World Health Organization

20, avenue Appia, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland

Tel +41 22 791 55 32, workershealth@who.int

@workershealth facebook

https://www.who.int/health-topics/occupational-health