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Catelene Passchier

Dutch legal adviser

Jun 5, 2026

13:46
Kathleen, listening in, what, what are your reflections? And from a worker's perspective, what would you say w- are the areas where we made the most progress and where we still need to do some work?
13:58
First, I join Chris to congratulate all of us and especially the office for, uh, us all adopting Convention 187.
14:07
Um, let me say that for us, the greatest advant- uh, advance in recent years was elevating occupational safety and health to a fundamental rights.
14:17
And a- in our view, it should have been there from the very beginning, and the ILO has worked on that from its very foundation.
14:25
Um, I also want to say that we have two core conventions, 155 and 187.
14:32
For us, 155 is the basis of all the rights in, uh, occupational safety and health.
14:39
187 adds the importance of prevention and other matters.

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28:29
So if I can turn to you, Kathleen, um, from your perspective, uh, since workers are the first to really experience a lot of what we're talking about at the workplace, what are the most, uh, salient or, or important risks that you from a worker's perspective are c- is concerned about when it comes to OSH as we move forward, as we look ahead?

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