The ILO/FINNIDA Asian-Pacific Regional Programme on Occupational Safety and Health (ASIA-OSH), a technical cooperation project carried out in 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific region, successfully completed in 2002.

The programme contributed substantially to strengthen national and regional safety and health information systems, and occupational safety and health ( OSH ) policies and programme. The participating countries were; Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam. The project was funded by the Government of Finland and implemented by the International Labour Office (ILO). 

The major project outputs were;

• establishment and implementation of national policies on OSH information dissemination and national OSH campaigns;
•  launching of new OSH information units within the government to collect, arrange and disseminate practical OSH information for workers and employers;
• building and maintenance of the Asian-Pacific Network on Occupational Safety and Health, and linking it to the world-wide ILO Occupational Safety and Health Information Centres’ (ILO/CIS Centres) network;
• publishing periodically the Asian-Pacific Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety in collaboration with Finnish Institute of Occupational Health;
• developing easy-to-use OSH information databases in cooperation with ILO/CIS Centre; 
• publication of OSH information materials in chemical safety and other fields.

For further information, please contact; Dr Tsuyoshi Kawakami at tel:+66-2-288-1743, fax:+66-2-2883058, or email: kawakami@ilo.org