The Validation Workshop for Safe Youth at Work Survey

This is the report of the validation workshop for safe youth at work survey that is successfully done by ILO’s youth safe@ work project. So called, “KAB survey” regarding on knowledge, attitude, behavior (KAB) of young workers between 14 to 24 years old. That workshop took place on 11th Sep, 2017 in Thingaha Hotel, Naypyitaw with the tripartite delegations. I would like to share the highlights, reflection, outcomes and inputs that we did during the workshop.
According to the agenda, it started with the opening ceremony in which Director General of FGLLID, U Nyunt Win delivered a speech about welcoming this survey and encouraging to contribute additional thoughts or any inputs from us.
Then, a brief contents of survey was explained by ILO about “what is KAP survey, how was it done, which methodology did ILO use, feedbacks from constituents and what is the next steps of survey.” After that, a details presentation for methodology and findings were presented by Sis. Hana Baronijan, Head of public affairs Switzerland from Ipsos public affairs. In this section, we shared our point of view ILO’s should have been put industrial sector that has more young workers than other sectors.
After lunch break, we did a group work discussion about next steps of survey in which there were two questions and three groups on knowledge, attitude and behavior of young workers, what are the most compliance finding in this survey? And what actions do we need to create a better OSH environment in Myanmar? In that regards, I was presented on behalf of knowledge group and also Bro. Aung Naing Tun (Alpine) helped our group as a note takers.
Closing ceremony was successfully done by a closing remark of DG (FGLLID) who encouraged to constituents and ILO, “ this survey is technically acceptable one but it had weakness in collaboration with the constituents so whenever ILO’s wants to do a project or wants to collect any survey, make sure to be inclusive and need to inform beforehand to respective partners or constituents.
In conclusion, we thanks to CTUM for giving opportunity to join this workshop. I have strong commitment that we will use these information to create a preventive culture of OSH among young workers by rising OSH awareness through trainings and campaigns in the future.