All publications: occupational safety and health

Mainstreaming environmental issues in sustainable enterprises: An exploration of issues, experiences and options

Employment Working Paper No. 75

Effective Implementation of National OSH Programme for Improving Safety and Health at the Workplace in Viet Nam

The ILO works to foster a preventative safety and health culture by strengthening national occupational safety and health (OSH) systems. This includes labour inspections, occupational injury reporting, training, and national OSH campaigns and...

Occupational Safety and Health Series, No. 74

List of occupational diseases (revised 2010). Identification and recognition of occupational diseases: Criteria for incorporating diseases...

The number of physical, chemical, biological and psychosocial factors affecting workers’ health is constantly on the rise. The ILO has been responding to the challenge of creating safe and healthy working conditions since its founding in 1919....

The Joint WHO-ILO-UNAIDS policy guidelines on improving health workers’ access to HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support...

Health workers often lack adequate access to preventive measures such as personal protective supplies or equipments as well as treatment access. The Joint WHO-ILO-UNAIDS 14-point policy guidelines have been developed to respond to this need and...

Women workers and gender issues on occupational safety and health

ILO action in this field is undertaken through its In Focus Programme on Safety, Health and the Environment SAFEWORK. The main objective of the Programme is to increase the capacity of Member States to protect workers' health, to prevent and...

Discussion paper

Industrial Skills Councils for Bangladesh

This paper sets out a rationale and proposal for the establishment of a network of Industry Skills Councils (ISC) in Bangladesh.

Handbook for improving living conditions on board fishing vessels

Review of the work safety and health inspection system

Technical Memorandum: China

A project on “Strengthening labour inspection services” funded by the Norwegian Government provided for a review of the OSH inspection system in China for better protection and prevention of workplace accidents and occupational diseases. In this...

Ergonomic checkpoints: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions. Second edition

Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of the highly successful Ergonomic checkpoints is aimed at reducing work-related accidents and diseases and improving safety, health and working conditions. Building on the wealth of experience of...

Second edition

Ergonomic checkpoints: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions

The manual aims at reducing work-related accidents and diseases and improving safety, health and working conditions. The checkpoints offer practical, low-cost solutions to ergonomic problems, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. This...

Approaches to Attribution of Detrimental Health Effects to Occupational Ionizing Radiation Exposure and their Application in Compensation...

Jointly published by three international organizations with mandates relating to occupational health and ionizing radiation - the ILO, IAEA and WHO - the publication will be useful for national authorities, trade unions, employers and other parties...

Plan of action (2010-2016) to achieve widespread ratification and effective implementation of the occupational safety and health...

The determined efforts made over recent years by the ILO and its constituents to develop a more holistic and integrated approach to the fundamental issue of occupational safety and health (OSH) culminated in the adoption by the ILO Governing Body at...

Labour Inspection: what it is and what it does. A guide for workers.

The Guide for Employers and the Guide for Workers will particularly prove useful as good knowledge of the labour inspection issues and implications can contribute to national progress through its efforts in preventing accidents at work, protecting...

Labour Inspection: what it is and what it does. A guide for employers.

The Guide for Employers and the Guide for Workers will particularly prove useful as good knowledge of the labour inspection issues and implications can contribute to national progress through its efforts in preventing accidents at work, protecting...

Leaflet on the Effective Implementation of National Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Programme for Improving Safety and Health at the...

Provides a brief summary about the project funded by the Government of Japan.

Alcohol and drug problems at work - The shift to prevention

This document is a practical manual to setting up and managing substance abuse prevention programmes in the enterprise. It describes the physiological effects of alcohol and drugs and the problems relating to intoxication, regular use and dependency...

Recycling and Managing Waste

WARM: Work Adjustment for Recycling and Managing Waste

Action manual for waste collectors and communities to promote their joint actions in improving safety, health and efficiency in waste collection and management.

Joint WHO/ILO policy guidelines on improving health worker access to prevention, treatment and care services for HIV and TB

The primary purpose of these guidelines is to draw together previously developed clinical and policy guidelines, along with recent evidence, into a coherent set of recommendations that aim to provide improved access of health workers to HIV and TB...

Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work

The booklet calls for the design and development of innovative national and regional strategies and programmes, emphasizing the roles of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, safety and health practitioners and other stakeholders. It...

Implementing HIV/AIDS Workplace Policies and Programmes (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project INT/07/09/GTZ - Evaluation consultants: Nelson Kamoga (Lead evaluator)and Yaya Konate (Mali evaluation)