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 underground coalmines

    13 May 2006

    This new code, which reflects the many changes in the industry, its workforce, the roles of the competent authorities, employers, workers and their organizations, and on the development of new ILO instruments on occupational safety and health, focuses on the production of coal from underground mines. The original code of practice on safety and health in coalmines was adopted by the Governing Body in 1986. Surface mining is covered by the code of practice, Safety and health in opencast mines (1991). This code of practice is based on principles established in international instruments relevant to the protection of workers' safety and health.

  2. Safety and health in shipbreaking: Guidelines for Asian countries and Turkey

    01 March 2004

    These guidelines are the first of their kind to provide assistance to ensure safe work in shipbreaking within the framework of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. In so doing they provide advice on the transformation of a mainly informal economy activity into a more formal organized one.

  3. Safety and health in ports

    17 December 2003

    The practical recommendations in this code are intended to provide relevant guidance to ILO constituents and all those responsible for or involved in the management, operation, maintenance and development of ports. This code of practice replaces two former ILO publications: "Guide to safety and health in dock work" (1976) and "Safety and health in dock work , An ILO code of practice" (second edition, 1977).

  4. Workplace violence in services sectors and measures to combat this phenomenon

    15 October 2003

    This code focuses on the prevention of workplace violence and its direct adverse consequences. The objective of this code of practice is to provide general guidance in addressing the problem of workplace violence in services sectors. The code is intended to serve as a basic reference tool for stimulating the development of similar instruments at the regional, national, sectoral, enterprise, organization and workplace levels, specifically targeted at and adapted to different cultures, situations and needs.

  5. Safety in the use of synthetic vitreous fibre insulation wools (glass wool, rock wool, slag wool)

    01 January 2001

    This ILO code of practice defines major principles and approaches concerning safety requirements and precautions in the use of insulation wools (glass wool, rock wool and slag wool). It provides practical control measures to minimize occupational exposure to fibres and dusts from insulation wools, prevent irritation and discomfort, and avert any long-term health risks involved in working with such products. The code promotes an integrated approach, taking account of the fact that synthetic vitreous fibre insulation wools do not appear in the workplace in their pure forms but rather as a product with mixed components. Emphasis is placed on addressing all the hazards arising from the product (insulation fibres, binders and other materials), taking account of real work situations.

  6. Ambient factors in the workplace

    01 January 2001

  7. Safety in the use of asbestos

    01 January 1984

  8. Occupational exposure to airborne substances harmful to health

    01 January 1980

    Enumerates roles of concerned bodies and persons, principles of the prevention of harmful toxic substances, exposure limits, medical examinations and biological monitoring, gives a glossary of relevant terms, and includes a list of participants present at the code approval.

  9. Guide to the prevention and suppression of dust in mining, tunnelling and quarrying

    01 January 1965

    The object of this manual is to indicate those operations in mining, tunnelling and quarrying which are likely to give rise to airborne dust, and to describe ways in which the concentrations may be determined and how they may be eliminated or reduced.