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Document ID (ISN)28700
CIS number 78-240
ISBN(s) 92-2-101836-9
Year 1977
Convention or series no.
Title Conditions of work and employment of professional workers.
Original title Conditions d'emploi et de travail des travailleurs intellectuels. [in French]
Bibliographic information International Labour Office, 1211 Genève 22, Switzerland, 1977. 111p. Price: SF.17.50.
Abstract Report prepared for consideration by the ILO Tripartite Meeting on Conditions of Work and Employment of Professional Workers (Geneva, 22-30 Nov. 1977). Chapter IV is devoted to professional workers' working conditions, and contains a section (p.83-91) on their safety and health problems (stress, sedentary work, lack of exercise, smoking and eating habits, coronary disease, hypertension, peptic ulcers, diabetes, possible irreversible psychological and physical consequences of occupational stress and anxiety states, etc.). Other aspects considered include: responsibility of professional workers in positions of authority for the safety and health of other workers; responsibility of design engineers; humanisation of work and job satisfaction; responsibility in case of occupational accident (civil and criminal liability).
Descriptors (primary) mental work; conditions of work; ILO
Descriptors (secondary) sedentary work; report; smoking; work involving responsibility; criminal liability; humanization of work; stress factors; role of management; health impairment
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Commerce, services, offices
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Criminal liability in OSH