A Tripartite Meeting of Experts to Develop Guidelines for Labour Inspection in Forestry is taking place in ILO headquarters from 24 to 28 January.

The Meeting, composed of 15 experts, will consider and review the publication Draft guidelines for labour inspection in forestry

The Guidelines raise some of the main issues and general principles of labour standards and their inspection in the forestry sector. They are aimed at three main users: (a) labour inspectors/certifiers; (b) forest managers; and (c) training and educational organizations responsible for training both forest management staff and inspectors.

The Guidelines are based on the ILO Conventions and Recommendations and make use of the existing interpretations of these, in particular the ILO Code of practice on safety and health in forestry work, Social criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, and Approaches to labour inspection in forestry.

Following the meeting of experts, it is planned that the Guidelines will be widely disseminated by the ILO, and social dialogue activities encouraged and facilitated to put them into practice around the world.

For further information, you may visit the pages of the ILO Sectoral Activities Department on this subject.