Shipping

Selected ILO Publications

• Drug and alcohol Prevention Programmes in the Maritime Industry: A Manual for Planners (Revised)

• Guidelines for Conducting Pre-sea and Periodic Medical Fitness Examinations for Seafarers
ILO/WHO. Geneva 1998.

• Accident Prevention on Board Ship at Sea and in Port: An ILO Code of Practice
Geneva, 1996.

• Maritime labour Conventions and Recommendations
4th. edition (in English, including the Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the 84th (Maritime) Session of the International Labour Conference (1996).

• Maritime Labour Standards in the Asian region
Report of the Tripartite Seminar on Maritime Labour Standards for Selected Asian Countries (Bangkok, 27 September-5 October 1994).

• Guidelines for Maritime Industry Labour Legislation
Available from the ILO and the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

• Labour standards on merchant ships
General survey of the reports on the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 147) and the Merchant Shipping (Improvement of Standards) Recommendation (No. 155), 1976 (E, F, S).

• Inspection of labour conditions on board ship: Guidelines for procedure

• Report on the Joint IMO/ILO Working Group on the Seafarers' Hours of Work and the Manning of Ships Convention 1996 (Nº 180) (London, 19-23 January 1998)

• Examination of the needs for revision of conventions concerning seafarers and fishermen