The International Occupational Safety and Health Information Center (CIS) has created a new interface to its SafeWork Bookshelf database that contains the ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, an authoritative source of on-line information on all aspects of the multidisciplinary field of occupational safety and health (OSH).

Available for free on the ILO Web site, you can access the results of the collaborative work of several hundred recognized experts form over 50 countries by clicking on http://www.ilo.org/safework_bookshelf/english. The Encyclopaedia consists of over 1,000 articles, complemented by copious illustrations, easy-to-read tables and thousands of references.

The new SafeWork Bookshelf also gives access to the OSH-related ILO Conventions and Recommendations, the ILO Codes of Practice as well as the ILO/WHO/UNEP International Chemical Safety Cards, summarizing essential health and safety information on chemicals for their use in the workplace.

In addition to a new look, the SafeWork Bookshelf is more user-friendly and contains new searching features. The interface allows the novice user to perform simple queries and easily save or print the retrieved information.

The SafeWork Bookshelf is also available in French at http://www.ilo.org/safework_bookshelf/french.