QUALITY OF WORK QUALITY OF LIFE

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2nd JOINT CONFERENCE of the LATVIAN STATE LABOUR
INSPECTORATE, within the framework of the
EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND PROJECT, and the
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION of LABOUR INSPECTION

• QUALITY OF WORK QUALITY OF LIFE
• The role of labour inspection in implementation
• of European and national strategies
• Riga, Latvia, 20-21 November 2008

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Training for Integrated Labour Inspection in
transition countries

• A presentation by
• Wolfgang Frhr. von Richthofen,
• International Consultant on
• Labour Inspection/Protection,
• Technical Adviser to IALI, and
• Consultant for the World Bank

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Based on analysis of the HRD component of eight
TC projects

• ILO/(Germany)/Hungary (1995 1997)
• ILO/(Germany)/Bulgaria (1999 2003)
• ILO/(Germany)/Vietnam (2001 2005)
• ILO/(US-DoL)/Serbia (2003 2005)
• USAID/Bosnia-Herzegovina (2006 present)
• EU-TACIS/Moldova (2007)
• World Bank/Macedonia (2007 2008) and
• World Bank/Azerbaijan (2008).

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Highlights

• Hungary (Transforming the Labour Inspection
  System) Introduction of Social Skills
  Development Training
• Bulgaria (Training for Integrated Labour
  Inspection) Development of a Modular approach,
   Cross Training  of  Relations  and
   Protection  Inspectors, and Management
  Training for Senior LI officials
• Vietnam (SafeWork and Integrated LI) Pilot
  training in Occupational Hygiene and Health
  Inspection setting up regional Training Centres
  (Phase II, with Luxembourg)
• Serbia (Modernizing LI for the 21st Century)
  Development of a comprehensive Training and
  Operations Manual  Principles and Practice of
  LI 

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Recommendations of a South East European
Tripartite Seminar on Revitalisation of Labour
Inspection Services (Budapest, June 2007)

• A human resources development and training
  needs analysis should be conducted as a basis
  for every LI and/or TC project, focusing on
  multi-functional capacity building
• One important element of every such LI TC
  proposal should be training for integrated
  labour inspection system using the ILO ILITS
  training system
• The organisation of regional trainer-training
  seminars should be considered, focusing in
  particular on attitude change
• Capacity building should focus on 3 important
  technical areas labour inspection for
  occupational hygiene/health social skills and
  competence development and capacity building for
  prevention and more effective and efficient
  inspections
• Capacity building should also ensure that
  labour inspection becomes technically and
  legally capable for comprehensive data
  collecting, analysis and dissemination,
  including in particular also data on
  occupational diseases.

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A usefull Benchmark Induction Training for
Generalist LIs in The Netherlands

• Training for generalist labour inspectors in NL
  is organized in nine modules over a period of 2 ½
  months as follows

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In more recent TC projects (BiH, Mac, Mol, AzR),
this has been translated into six basic training
modules as follows

• Enforcement Policies and Procedures (1 week)
• Labour and OSH Legislation (1 week)
• Occ. Safety Inspection and Accident Prevention
  (2 weeks)
• Occ. Hygiene and Health Inspection (2 weeks)
• Relations and Employment Inspection (1 week)
• Communication Skills and Social Competence
  Development (1 week).
• In addition, a 1-week basic Management Training
  course is recommended for all senior Field and
  HQ staff

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Example Social skills development
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Example Occ. Hygiene and Health
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The ILO CEEC Training Document(already
translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian,
Serbian and Romanian)
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For more information on this and related labour
inspection topics please consult

• Now available in 12 languages, including

Now available in 11 languages, including CEECs
Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Serbian
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Thank you for your attention!

• Wolfgang Frhr. von Richthofen,
• International Consultant on
• Labor Inspection/Protection,
• Technical Adviser to IALI,
• Consultant for the World Bank, and
• USAID-ELMO Team Leader in BiH
• Tel/Fax [phone]
• E-mail vonrichthofen_at_wanadoo.fr