Training materials
The instructional materials introduce the concepts of hazard, risk and prevention as one of the effective means to build a strong and sustained preventative safety and health culture. Many focus on the “train-the trainer” approach. A number of training packages have been used in several countries resulting in concrete OSH improvements at national and enterprise levels. They are made widely available through technical cooperation activities and training programmes.
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ILO Training Package on Development of a National Programme of Occupational Safety and Health: Module 4 National Programmes of Occupational Safety and Health
10 June 2013
Module 4 provides guidance on the concepts, content and methodology for the drawing up of a National OSH Programme, as well some guidance on the processes of its launching, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. The aim of this module is the upgrading of the competencies of OSH specialists and tripartite decision makers, in order to enable them to draw up, implement and evaluate a National OSH Programme.
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ILO Training Package on Development of a National Programme of Occupational Safety and Health: Module 3 National OSH Profile and analysis of the national OSH situation
10 June 2013
Module 3 provides guidance on the essential contents of a National Profile of Occupational Safety and Health (National OSH Profile), potential information sources and the process for collecting information. The aim is to increase the knowledge and competencies of the OSH specialists and tripartite decision makers involved in drawing up a National OSH Profile, in analyzing the information and in formulating national priorities for OSH.
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ILO Training Package on Development of a National Programme of Occupational Safety and Health: Module 2 Introduction to the national occupational Safety and Health System
10 June 2013
Module 2 covers the National Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) System, its main components, functions and organization, and any potential problems from an international standpoint. The aim of the module is to strengthen trainees’ knowledge of the various structures and functions of a National OSH System.
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ILO Training Package on Development of a National Programme of Occupational Safety and Health: Module 1 The ILO's Strategic Approach to Occupational Safety and Health
07 June 2013
Module 1 addresses the need and rational for the promotional framework on OSH, which is that of enhancing OSH governance by means of improved national OSH policies, systems, programmes and action plans. The aim of the module is to enable trainees to understand the ILO’s strategic approach to national OSH development.
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ILO Training Package on Development of a National Programme of Occupational Safety and Health - Trainer's guide
07 June 2013
This training package is intended to support training activities aimed at promoting the ILO’s strategic approach to Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). It provides inputs for the development of a National OSH Programme, as well as for the drawing up of a National OSH Policy and a National OSH Profile.
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Training Package on Workplace Risk Assessment and Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
07 June 2013
This training package on risk assessment and management at the workplace seeks primarily to empower owners and managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to take action themselves to improve safety and health conditions in their workplaces.
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The new SOLVE training package: Integrating health promotion into workplace OSH policies
18 April 2012
The material covers the management of health promotion at the workplace to deal with nine topics: stress and economic stress, violence, tobacco and smoke-free workplaces, alcohol and drugs, nutrition, physical activity, healthy sleep and HIV/AIDS. The package includes a participant's workbook, a trainer’s guide, lesson plans and a CD-ROM with presentations and background material.
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Ergonomic checkpoints in agriculture: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions in agriculture
06 January 2012
This manual presents practical solutions for improvements in agricultural work and rural life from an ergonomics point of view. The checkpoints it lists are intended to be used as a means to improve existing working and living conditions, for better safety, health and efficiency in agricultural and rural settings.
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Stress prevention at work checkpoints: Practical improvements for stress prevention in the workplace
01 January 2012
This manual aims at reviewing workplace stress issues. It includes easy-to-apply checkpoints for identifying stressors in working life and mitigating their harmful effects. It is hoped that workers and employers will be able to use the checkpoints to detect causes of stress at work and take effective measures to address them.
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Ergonomic checkpoints: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions. Second edition
01 July 2010
The manual aims at reducing work-related accidents and diseases and improving safety, health and working conditions. The checkpoints offer practical, low-cost solutions to ergonomic problems, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. This second edition features revised text, additional checkpoints and new, full-colour illustrations.
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Tackling hazardous child labour in agriculture: Guidance on policy and practice
01 October 2006
This toolkit has been produced to help policy-makers ensure that agriculture is a priority sector for the elimination of child labour. The guidebooks included in this package provide policy-makers and stakeholder organizations with information and ideas needed to plan, formulate and implement policies and programmes to tackle hazardous child labour in agriculture.
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Work Improvement for Safe Home (WISH): Action manual for improving safety, health and working conditions of home workers
01 January 2006
The WISH action manual is designed to provide home workers with practical, easy-to-implement ideas to improve their safety, health and working conditions. These improvements will also contribute to higher productivity and efficiency of their work and promote active participation and cooperation of home workers in the same workplace or in the same community.
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A tool kit for labour inspectors: A model enforcement policy, a training and operations manual, a code of ethical behaviour
01 January 2006
The toolkit provides three basic tools necessary for a modern labour inspection practice that is both efficient and effective. It is hoped that the Policy, the Manual and the Code will become the useful, standard reference texts for labour inspection and labour inspectors in many countries.
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Integrated Labour Inspection Training System (ILITS)
01 January 2006
High standards of inspector training are essential for the pivotal role of labour inspection if decent work is to be promoted at the enterprise level, especially with all the challenge arising from a rapidly changing world of work. ILITS provides a new modular approach to such training.
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A handbook on HIV/AIDS for labour and factory inspectors
01 February 2005
This handbook aims to help labour inspectors deal with the issue of HIV/AIDS. It establishes the links between the key principles and core responsibilities of labour inspectorates and the management of HIV/AIDS at the workplace. It includes training activities and practical tools to help inspectors integrate HIV/AIDS in their work.
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Framework guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the health sector: The training manual
01 January 2005
This manual is a practical, user-friendly tool that builds on the policy approach of the Framework Guidelines. Representatives of governments, employers and workers would be well served to use the manual in training situations, so as to encourage social dialogue among health sector stakeholders and develop, in consultation, approaches to address violence in the workplace.
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Work Improvements in Small Enterprises (WISE) - Package for trainers
01 January 2004
This training package is aimed at upgrading the skills of WISE trainers in Asia who conduct training courses and provide technical assistance for local small enterprises. It helps both entrepreneurs and workers benefit from the productivity gain and safety and health improvements. Its six basic training principles are: build on local practice; focus on achievements; link working conditions with other management goals; use learning-by-doing; encourage exchange of experience; promote workers’ involvement.
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Health, safety and environment: A series of trade union education manuals for agricultural workers
01 January 2004
This series of manuals has been developed to help union affiliates representing agricultural workers to tackle health, safety and environmental problems (HS&E), through their training programmes.
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Combating child labour: A handbook for labour inspectors
01 January 2002
This handbook will be a most useful instrument for labour inspectors in that it provides an overview of what their role can be with respect to child labour, and shows how to focus in on the problem, not only in the urban factory or establishment, but the informal sector workshops, rural communities and fields as well.