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CIS - Fifty years of history

CIS was founded 50 years ago, in 1959. This short history explores the reasons for its creation, traces its activities throughout the time and tries to predict what it will be doing in the near future.

Type: Brochure
Date issued: 01 October 2009
Reference: 978-92-2-122768-7(webpdf)[ISBN]
Authors: Gábor Sándi
The publication provides an overview of the beginning of the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS), its network development, the advent of computer technology, the main databases, the work in the developing world, and its current online activities such as the ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety. It also reveals the CIS directors and coordinators over time as well as the first CIS National Centres who played a key role in the later development of the network.

Tags: international cooperation, occupational safety and health, information resources

Unit responsible: Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment (SAFEWORK)

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