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Document ID (ISN)37262
CIS number 82-305
Year 1981
Convention or series no.
Author(s)
Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid)
Title Annual report of the Inspectorate of Dock Labour, 1979
Original title Inspectie van de Havenarbeid - Jaarverslag over 1979 [in Dutch]
Bibliographic information Arbeidsinspectie, Directoraat-Generaal van de Arbeid, Postbus 69, Voorburg, Netherlands, Sep. 1981. 39p. Illus.
Abstract Survey of the organisation and activities of the Netherlands Inspectorate of Dock Labour, with particular reference to the enforcement and administration of occupational safety and health regulations, safety campaigns, vocational training and social welfare. The last chapter is devoted to occupational accidents and their causes (descriptions of accidents involving: containers, lifting equipment in bad condition, cranes, ladders and trapdoors, hatches, pallets, railway-truck shunting, fork-lift trucks, safety helmets, safety shoes, lack of attention, inadequate lighting, commuting, temporary replacement workers, slinging of loads, unsafe stowing of cargo, unsafe working methods).
Descriptors (primary) Netherlands; labour inspection; dock work
Descriptors (secondary) occupational accidents; legislation; securing of loads; lifting of loads; report; slinging of loads; hatchways; vocational training; shunting; ladders; loading and unloading; fork-lift trucks; cranes; accident descriptions; safety helmets; safety shoes; human failure; unsafe practices; commuting accidents; temporary workers; lighting
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Materials handling and storage
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Water transportation
Precarious employment
Labour inspection