While the safety challenge is universal, developing countries are disproportionately affected by safety issues and occupational accidents.

Many countries still lack a strong legislation framework and the know-how and infrastructure to implement it. A vast number of industrial workers in developing countries are based in informal workplaces.

This principle envisages a community of people, associations, companies, countries and stakeholders to join efforts to continuously and systematically support safety efforts in developing countries.

Such efforts should focus on strengthening national occupational safety and health (OSH) systems – through collaboration, education, intervention, budgetary support and institutional reforms.

This principle sets the expectation that no one should be left behind in the vision of a safer world enabled by technology.