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. 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.

  2. HIV/AIDS and the world of work

    01 June 2001

    The code provides invaluable practical guidance to policy-makers, employers’ and workers’ organizations and other social partners for formulating and implementing appropriate workplace policy, prevention and care programmes, and for establishing strategies to address workers in the informal sector. It is the product of collaboration between the ILO and its tripartite constituents, as well as cooperation with its international partners.

  3. Protection of workers’ personal data

    01 January 1997

    The purpose of this code of practice is to provide guidance on the protection of workers’ personal data. As an ILO code of practice, it has no binding force, but rather makes recommendations. The code does not replace national laws, regulations, international labour standards or other accepted standards. It can be used in the development of legislation, regulations, collective agreements, work rules, policies and practical measures at enterprise level.

  4. Management of alcohol- and drug-related issues in the workplace

    01 January 1996

    Abuse of drugs and alcohol may cause serious difficulties at work including deterioration in job performance. Abuse is caused by a diverse range of personal, family, social or work situations or a combination of such factors. Consequently this ILO code of practice presents a variety of multidisciplinary approaches to the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of alcohol- and drug-related problems in the workplace. Although experience has shown the difficulty of eliminating substance abuse, the workplace policies presented in this book to assist individual abusers are likely to yield constructive results for workers and employers alike.