Shipping: Selected ILO Publications

• Compendium of Maritime Labour Instruments
ILO, 2008.

• The Global Seafarer. Living and working conditions in a globalized industry
ILO, 2004.

• Women seafarers: Global employment policies and practices
ILO, 2003.

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

• 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).

• 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).

• Report of 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)

Guidelines and Codes of Practice

• 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.

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

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