All publications: occupational safety and health

Occupational safety and health

Trade unions in Bangladesh: Promoting safe and healthy workplaces in the garment sector

Trade unions are a centre piece in building safer workplaces. The main purpose of the advocacy tool is to highlight the important role and responsibility that unions could continue to play in building proper workers’ awareness and action on OSH,...

Draft code of practice on safety and health in shipbuilding and ship repair, Meeting of Experts to adopt a Code of Practice on Safety and...

Draft code of practice for discussion at the Meeting of Experts to adopt a Code of Practice on Safety and Health in Shipbuilding and ship repair

Project report

Towards safer working conditions in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

This report highlights the results and achievement of the first phase of ILO's Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-Made Garment Sector Programme (2013-2017)

SCORE Experiences: Safety & Health at work: A Platform for Productivity

This comic book accompanies SCORE Training module 5: Safety & Health at work: A Platform for Productivity

Disability and Work

Trade Union Action on Decent Work for Persons with Disabilities

Trade unions are working all over the world on disability issues. This research captures and summarises trade union action on disability from over 50 countries, including developed, emerging and developing economies. The research offers a new...

Draft code of practice on safety and health in opencast mines, Meeting of Experts on Safety and Health in Opencast Mines (Geneva, 16–20...

Draft code of practice for discussion at the Meeting of Experts on Safety and Health in Opencast Mines

Conducting Labour Inspections on Construction - A guide for labour inspectors

The objective of this guide is to assist labour inspectors fulfil their inspectorial function by providing information, in a user friendly format on, a suggested methodology for conducting inspections of construction activities; from planning to...

ILO/Japan Cooperation - Factsheet 2017

Japan is a founding member State of the ILO, and a valued partner in promoting the Decent Work Agenda. Japan has ratified 49 Conventions, including 6 Fundamental, 3 Governance and 40 Technical Conventions. Japan holds one of the ten permanent...

Can productivity in SMEs be increased by investing in workers’ health? Taking stock of findings on health protection of workers in small...

Occupational Safety and Health Situation in Sindh 2014-15

This report presents an analysis of the labour market situation with particular reference to the state of occupational safety and health in Sindh. The analysis is based on data from the 2014-15 round of the Pakistan Labour Force Survey.

Policy Outcome 10: Strong and representative employers' and workers' organizations

Policy Outcome 7: Promoting workplace compliance through labour inspection

Policy Outcome 2: Ratification and application of international labour standards

Policy Outcome 8: Protecting workers from unacceptable forms of work

Occupational safety and health

The Remediation Coordination Cell for the Bangladesh garment industry

Since the collapse of Rana Plaza in April 2013, the International Labour Organization with the support of Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom has worked to improve safety in the Bangladesh garment industry. Over 1,500 garment factories...

Workplace safety

Towards improved fire and building safety in Bangladesh

The ILO’s ‘Improving Fire and General Building Safety in Bangladesh’ project funded by the US Department of Labor was launched in 2013 in response to the safety issues affecting the RMG sector. Coming to an end in January 2017, this publication...

Issues paper for discussion at the Sub-Saharan African Tripartite Workshop on Occupational Safety and Health in the Oil and Gas Industry

Occupational safety and health in the oil and gas industry in selected sub-Saharan African countries (Maputo, Mozambique, 17−18 May 2017)

Rana Plaza survivors

Handbook on career counselling (English and Bangla)

This handbook on career counselling has been developed to share practical guidelines for those working with survivors of traumatic incidents

Sustainable Development Goals

Trade Union Reference Manual on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

This reference manual, seeks to assist trade union leaders, members and sympathizers, in their engagement in these national strategies for sustainable development.

Final evaluation summary

Improving working conditions in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh