After just one year, almost 2500 companies, organizations and trainers have joined the Vision Zero campaign. A number of launches are still coming up in different corners of the world, which means this global community for safety, health and wellbeing at work will continue to grow in the time to come.

Every year, 2.8 million people die because of their work. The majority of them, more than 85% because of health issues. This was the backdrop for the first-ever global prevention campaign, developed by the International Social Security Association and launched at the World Congress for Safety and Health at Work in Singapore on 4 September 2017. “Vision Zero reflects a mind-set, a belief that every accident, every disease and every harm at work is preventable”, says Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, Secretary General of the ISSA, in a video message: