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Mining sector project
Training Workshop towards an Integrated Labour Inspection System for the Mining Sector in Zambia
The ILO mining sector project held a two day workshop in Kitwe on integrated labour inspection systems for the mining sector in Zambia.
Safety and Health
Turkey ratifies the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167) and the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No....
Turkey is the thirtieth and twenty-seventh ILO member State to have ratified, respectively, Convention No. 176 and Convention No.167, which aim to improve the safety and health of millions of mine and construction workers worldwide.
Occupational Safety and Health
Minya Quarries: Protecting the workers through information
Thousands of workers live in extreme conditions in Egypt’s stone quarries. The ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ILO-ACTRAV) recently provided technical support for education and awareness-raising among the stone quarry workers of Minya on the...
Zambian government is committed to engage in social dialogue in the mining sector – Kaunda
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Mr Trevor Kaunda has reassured social partners that the Zambian government is committed to engage in social dialogue in the mining sector.
Occupational safety and health
Government, workers' and employers' representatives agreed on the main elements of a roadmap on OSH in mines
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), International Labour Organization (ILO), social partners and other relevant stakeholders discussed how risk assessments, compliance with national legislation, labour inspection and the social...
Occupational Safety and Health
Uruguay ratifies the Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176)
Uruguay has ratified 15 occupational safety and health Conventions
Guyana and Suriname: Inspection manual for the mining sector being developed
Manual intends to decrease the number of accidents and injuries by inducing small miners to develop a safety culture.
South Africa mines
Social dialogue needed to prevent further violence in SA mines, says ILO
The ILO calls for social dialogue and a review of labour market institutions to avoid further violence in the South African mining industry
Working conditions
South Africa could do more for miners, says ILO mining specialist
The killings of more than 30 workers in the Marikana platinum mine have put the spotlight on working conditions in South Africa’s mining industry.
ICEM, ILO Conduct Mine Safety Seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia
World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2011
From child labourer to child advocate: How Rodel succeeded in leaving the mineshaft
More than half (53 per cent) of the 215 million child labourers worldwide do hazardous work. While their number is increasing among older children, aged 15-17, progress is being made for younger children, aged 5-14, says the latest ILO report on...
Press release
ILO Director-General celebrates rescue operation of trapped Chilean miners
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Juan Somavia, has expressed his deep emotion over the rescue operation to free the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months in a mine in northern Chile.
World Day against Child Labour 2009
Girls in gold-mining: “I don’t want my children to be like me”
Over 18,000 girls and boys are engaged in mining and quarrying in the Philippines. For many generations, the search for gold in small-scale mining has been a means of survival for poor families. Girls in such work are particularly vulnerable....
Out of sight – girls in mining
A new ILO study shows that not only are children still being forced to work in mines, but many of them are girls. It is child labour in its worst form: young girls risk permanent injury from carrying heavy loads of rock and contamination from...