Guidelines

  1. Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems (ILO-OSH 2001)

    These guidelines present practical tools and call for coherent policies to protect workers from occupational hazards and risks while improving productivity.

  2. Technical and ethical guidelines for workers' health surveillance (OSH 72)

    These guidelines provide assistance for workers' health surveillance schemes that facilitate preventive action for a healthy and safe working environment.

Codes of Practice

  1. Safety and health in agriculture

    21 March 2011

    This code of practice is intended to raise awareness of the hazards and risks associated with agriculture and promote their effective management and control; to help prevent occupational accidents and diseases and improve the working environment in practice; to encourage governments, employers, workers and other stakeholders to cooperate to prevent accidents and diseases; to promote more positive attitudes and behaviour towards occupational safety and health (OSH) in agriculture throughout the sector; ensure that good workplace health and safety practices are applied to all workers in the workplace regardless of age or gender.

  2. Safety in the use of chemicals at work

    01 January 1993

  3. Prevention of major industrial accidents

    01 January 1991

    The objective of this code of practice is to provide guidance in the setting up of an administrative, legal and technical system for the control of major hazard installations. It seeks to protect workers, the public and the environment by: preventing major accidents from occurring at these installations; minimising the consequences of a major accident on site and off site, for example by: arranging appropriate separation between major hazard installations and housing and other centres of population nearby such as hospitals, schools and shops; and appropriate emergency planning.