On 17 November, the ILO's Governing Body finished its work. Its main proposal entailed taking a fresh set of measures designed to modernise, step up and reinvigorate labour inspection throughout the world.

These include tripartite audits of labour inspections to help governments identify and remedy the weak points of inspections, draw up appropriate codes of ethics and good practice, compile information dossiers on labour inspection, devise systems for managing health and safety in the workplace and also suitable training programmes for inspectors. In addition, for the first time, the ILO defined reasonable indicators for the number of labour inspectors, based on the size of the workforce: 1 inspector per 10,000 workers in industrialised countries with a market economy, 1 per 20,000 in transition economies, and 1 per 40,000 in less developed countries. However, according to an ILO report, in many countries the reality is still far removed from the indicators recommended by ILO. For example, in a country like Bangladesh, there is currently 1 inspector per 3,200,000 workers.

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