28 April 2020 On World Day for Safety and Health at Work the World Health Organization calls upon all governments employers and workers organizations and the global community to take urgent measures for strengthen countries capacities to protect occupational health and safety of health workers and emergency responders respect their rights to decent working conditions and develop national programmes for occupational health of health workers and to provide them with occupational health services Amidst the COVID 19 pandemic ILO has dedicated World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2020 in addressing the outbreak of infectious diseases at work in particular on the COVID 19 pandemic