ILO sign agreement with the State Administration of Work Safety for implementing SCORE project

SCORE is an ILO technical cooperation programme that provides practical training and in-factory counselling services to improve productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Press release | 08 April 2014
BEIJING (ILO News) -- Today, the ILO and the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) signed an Agreement establishing cooperation for the next 3 years (2014 to 2016) concerning implementing Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) project in China.

The agreement sets out a cooperation framework to build capacity within SAWS to gradually take the lead on SCORE training and carry it forward independently after 2016.

SCORE is an ILO technical cooperation programme that provides practical training and in-factory counselling services to improve productivity and working conditions in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Mr Bai Ran, Deputy Director-General of International Cooperation Department of SAWS, recalled long-term and close relationship with the ILO, which helped SAWS make great progress in the area of work safety in the past years. SAWS attaches great importance to SCORE and provides full backing by involving Department No.4 for Safety Supervision, covering industrial enterprises, and International Cooperation Department. SAWS selecetd Deyang City, Sichuan Province as the first pilot city for SCORE, with a view to accumulate cooperation experience and roll out the project to promote standardizing work safety practices and occupational health and safety (OSH) management capacity of enterprises.

Mr Tim De Meyer, Director of the ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia recalled the excellent cooperation with SAWS in the past years and said the Agreement would bring it to a new level. He noted that in the last decade, SAWS has devoted a lot of efforts to work safety issues. China has ratified three ILO OSH conventions (No 155, 167 and 170) and in the latest Report on the Work of the Government, work safety has been put forward as one of the priorities of the government’s work in 2014. Although great progress has been made, challenges remain for the tremendous number of SMEs. SCORE focuses on a training of trainers approach and certification of work safety consultants. Initiating such coopeartion is timely and appropriate for SAWS to improving safety situation in SMEs. Mr De Meyer encouraged SAWS to join hands with other relevant Ministries, workers and employers in the fight to prevent accidents, injuries and diseases in Chinese workplaces.

The cooperation will start from Deyang and train five local trainers and ten enterprise as the first round in 2014. The training will focus on two SCORE modules: workplace cooperation and OSH. Through the piloting of SCORE training, it will build capacity of national and local parnters within SAWS to market and implement SCORE by involving business service providers.


For more information, please contact with:
Mr Zhang Xubiao, Project Manager of SCORE China