Publications

2012

1. 

   Action Checklist Fire Safety

   01 November 2012

   This checklist is a management tool to implement practical actions to improve fire safety at the workplace. The successful implementation of this checklist is dependent on the willingness and cooperation between employers, supervisors and workers to make positive changes in the workplace to improve fire safety.

2. 

   Fire Risk Management

   01 November 2012

   This booklet is designed to provide Employers, Managers, Workers and Governmental Organizations with key information on the very severe risks that fires poses in the workplace, as well as on their prevention and control.

3. 

   The GHS and the Global Partnership: A success story from Rio to Rio

   14 June 2012

   The booklet summarises and reviews the achievements, lessons learned and future directions of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Global Partnership for Capacity Building to Implement the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).

4. 

   Promoting safety and health in a green economy

   16 April 2012

   The report highlights occupational safety and health (OSH) as an integral part of the promotion of green jobs and a greener economy to achieve an economic and social development that is also environmentally sustainable.

5. 

   Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety

   20 February 2012

   The ILO's Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety presents a panoramic view of the basic available information in the field. The Encyclopaedia has been developed in parts, sections and chapters which correspond to the various subjects that comprise occupational health and safety. It has been designed to provide the general user with background information on the disciplines of occupational health and safety in an understandable manner that will, at the same time, be considered rigorous by professionals in those fields.

2011

1. 

   Working for a Social Protection Floor by Ellen Ehmke & Andreas Bodemer

   28 November 2011

   Worldwide, 75% of the population have no or insufficient access to social security provision. Despite the long record of social security as a human right, which is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 22, 25) and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (Art. 9), its implementation has been widely disregarded.

2. 

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

   17 November 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, as described in a new chapter 6 (page 14). Chapters 1 through 5 are identical to those that appeared in the preceding (2000) edition of the Guidelines. That text remains applicable as written for classifying conventional film-screen radiographs and the associated sets of ILO standard radiographs remain available from the ILO.

3. 

   Social Protection Floor for a Fair and Inclusive Globalization

   27 October 2011

   Report of the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group chaired by Michelle Bachelet. In many ways the power of the social protection floor lies in its simplicity. The floor is based on the idea that everyone should enjoy at least basic income security sufficient to live, guaranteed through transfers in cash or in kind, such as pensions for the elderly and persons with disabilities, child benefits, income support benefits and/or employment guarantees and services for the unemployed and working poor.

4. 

   XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work - ILO Introductory Report: Global Trends and Challenges on Occupational Safety and Health

   12 September 2011

   This Introductory Report concerns some of the achievements and challenges of the last three years since the adoption of the Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work at the XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work for building a preventative safety and health culture. How to meet these challenges will be the subject of much discussion and debate at the Congress itself, which it is hoped will be another significant landmark in the history of promoting a preventative safety and health culture across the world.

5. 

   Opportunity in Crisis: Preventing HIV from early adolescence to young adulthood

   01 June 2011

   This joint report by ILO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, WHO and the World Bank, provides an overview of the State of the epidemic among young people. It includes individual testimonies, the latest statistics and analysis on very young adolescents (10-14), older adolescents (15-19), young adults (20-24) and young people living with HIV. The report outlines opportunities for action to ensure the protection of these young people and to achieve the global targets for an AIDS- free generation.

6. 

   Radiation protection of workers

   11 April 2011

   SafeWork Information Note Series, Information Note No. 1

7. 

   OSH Management System: A tool for continual improvement

   31 March 2011

   The report discusses the application of an Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS) for the effective management of hazards and risks in the workplace. It has been prepared to serve as background to the 2011 World Day for Safety and Health at Work campaign.

8. Criteria for use in preparedness and response for a nuclear or radiological emergency: General safety guide

   01 February 2011

   This Safety Guide is intended to assist Member States in the application of the Safety Requirements publication on Preparedness and Response for a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency (IAEA Safety Standards Series No. GS-R-2), and to help in the fulfilment of the IAEA’s obligations under the Assistance Convention. It provides generic criteria for protective actions and other response actions in the case of a nuclear or radiological emergency, including numerical values of these criteria. It also presents operational criteria derived from specific generic criteria.

2010

1. 

   Ergonomic checkpoints: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions. Second edition

   15 July 2010

   Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of the highly successful Ergonomic checkpoints is aimed at reducing work-related accidents and diseases and improving safety, health and working conditions. Building on the wealth of experience of practitioners in applying these checkpoints, the second edition features revised text, additional checkpoints and new, full-colour illustrations.

2. 

   Approaches to Attribution of Detrimental Health Effects to Occupational Ionizing Radiation Exposure and their Application in Compensation Programmes for Cancer (OSH 73)

   23 June 2010

   Jointly published by three international organizations with mandates relating to occupational health and ionizing radiation - the ILO, IAEA and WHO - the publication will be useful for national authorities, trade unions, employers and other parties with an interest in ensuring an equitable approach to workers' compensation.

3. List of publications of the Documentation Center

   13 May 2010

   List of publications available and the stock number in the Documentation Center

4. List of publications of the Documentation Center

   12 May 2010

   List of publications available and the stock number in the Documentation Center

5. 

   Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work

   28 April 2010

   The booklet calls for the design and development of innovative national and regional strategies and programmes, emphasizing the roles of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, safety and health practitioners and other stakeholders. It also recognizes ILO’s responsibility in spreading a preventive culture, through its standards and technical know-how, looking forward to a joint effort in reducing work-related fatalities, accidents and diseases.

2009

1. 

   Global Wage Report: 2009 Update

   02 November 2009

   The present report is an update of the Global Wages Report 2008/09 released in November 2008. While a comprehensive assessment will be provided in the next full Global Wage Report in 2010, the present update already provides some indications of wage trends up to the second quarter of 2009 in a number of countries around the world.

2. 

   Health and life at work: A basic human right

   28 April 2009

   “Everyone has the right to life, to work... to just and favourable conditions of work... Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family...” (From the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, UN, 1948).