On-line resource kit: mining

Resource list | 03 April 2019
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Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155)

Protocol of 2002 to the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981

Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176)

Safety and Health in Mines Recommendation, 1995 (No. 183)

ILO Code of Practice: Safety and health in underground coalmines
The objective of this code is to provide practical guidance on a legal, administrative, technical and educational framework for safety and health in underground coalmines. Published in 2006, this code of practice provides valuable updates to the original code of practice first adopted in 1986.

ILO Code of Practice: Safety and health in opencast mines
The objective of this newly updated code of practice (2018) is to provide practical guidance on various aspects related to safety and health in opencast mines. The new code is based on the principles of Convention No. 176, including risk assessment, and addresses issues such as automated machinery, and the interaction between large-scale and small-scale artisanal miners.

Safety and health in small-scale surface mines: A handbook
The objectives of this handbook are to protect workers in small-scale surface (open-pit) mines from safety and health hazards and risks in their work, to prevent or reduce the incidence and severity of illness and injury in small-scale surface mines, and to promote training, knowledge sharing and social dialogue..

Mining Industry Best Practice on the Prevention of Silicosis
This guides provides a best practice approach to protect miners from the hazards presented by silica dust, in order to prevent the incidence of silicosis for miners worldwide.

Guidelines for the use of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses, Revised edition 2011

This revised (2011) edition of the Guidelines for the use of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses extends the applicability of the Classification to digital radiographic images of the chest. The Classification is an internationally recognized tool for recording systematically radiographic abnormalities in the chest provoked by the inhalation of dusts, which often occurs in the mining sector.

Building a preventative safety and health culture in mines
This guide provides an overview of the requirements in Convention No. 176 as well as the supplementing guidance in the Safety and Health in Mines Recommendation, 1995 (No. 183).

Additional information on the mining sector can be found here:
https://www.ilo.org/global/industries-and-sectors/mining/lang--en/index.htm
https://www.ilo.org/safework/industries-sectors/WCMS_219026/lang--en/index.htm