Occupational Safety and Health Inspection resources

  1. Guidelines on general principles of labour inspection

    03 May 2022

  2. Stories of Change

    01 March 2022

    Strategic Compliance Planning 2020 - 2021

  3. Guidance on occupational safety and health for domestic workers and employers to prevent and mitigate COVID-19

    21 January 2022

  4. Conducting Occupational Safety and Health Inspections in Agricultural Undertakings - A guide for labour Inspectors

    19 November 2021

  5. Fire Risk Management

    19 November 2021

  6. Principles and guidelines for human factors / ergonomics (HFE) design and management of work systems.

    04 November 2021

  7. The GHS in the world of work: Mapping synergies between ILO Instruments and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)

    03 September 2021

    This report explores critical synergies between the GHS and the ILO’s instruments on chemicals and occupational safety and health, with an aim to further promote GHS implementation and an even greater engagement of the world of work in global efforts toward the safer management of chemicals.

  8. WISCON - Work Improvement for Small Construction Sites

    30 July 2021

    Action manual for improving safety, health and working conditions on small construction sites by employers, supervisors and workers.

  9. Building a culture of workplace compliance through development cooperation

    25 June 2021

    This compendium of good practices provides a unique set of successful practices from development cooperation projects to share knowledge gained and to help compliance actors improve efficiency with the long-term aim to replicate the positive results achieved and develop them further.

  10. Guide on Labour Inspection and Social Security

    05 June 2020

    This study is intended to provide governments and other parties interested with an overview of current approaches to the intervention of labour inspectorates on social security matters.

  11. A Study on Labour Inspectors’ Careers

    20 March 2020

    This paper is addressed to managers of labour inspection systems who have to develop or improve a human resources (HR) policy for labour inspectors. It provides them with: a basis for developing HR policies specifically for labour inspectors; an overview of today’s current approaches to HR with respect to labour inspectors; and a number of national practices in recruitment, training, remuneration, promotion, mobility and work-life balance.

  12. Occupational Safety and Health - A Guide for Labour Inspectors and other stakeholders

    29 July 2019

    The aim of this guide is to assist inspectors and employers to fulfil their functions by providing information on the management of occupational safety and health (OSH) issues that are that are common across many sectors of industry.

  13. A Guide on Labour Inspection Intervention in the Informal Economy - A participatory method

    24 April 2018

    The informal economy comprises more than half of the global labour force and more than 90% of micro and small enterprises worldwide. It encompasses a huge diversity of situations, employers and workers, most of them operating out of survival needs, especially in industrializing countries. In these countries, the protection provided by regulatory systems may not apply in law or in practice to informal economic units and workers therein; the scarce resources of enforcement agencies along with the particular challenges related to the informal economy may also lead governments to concentrate their efforts in formal enterprises. To address these challenges, the ILO, together with labour inspectorates from selected African Member States, developed and piloted a simple and effective process to address fundamental labour rights and occupational safety and health deficits through labour inspection as presented in this guide.

  14. ILO Approach to Strategic Compliance Planning for Labour Inspectorates

    29 November 2017

  15. e-labadmin - 2020 - USB Card

    22 August 2017

  16. Conducting Labour Inspections on Construction - A guide for labour inspectors

    22 August 2017

    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 reporting on the inspection, as well as providing technical information which labour inspectors can supply to employers and workers, so as to ensure “Decent Work”.

  17. Towards Improved Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh

    05 June 2017

    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 highlights the major achievements of the project.

  18. Presentation on "Optimize the collection and use of OSH data"

    13 April 2017

    This presentation aims at highlighting the key points of the 2017 World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

  19. Optimizing compliance with child labour legislation through strategic collaboration of labour inspection and child labour monitoring programmes, Brief 1, January 2017

    07 February 2017

    Labour inspectorates, together with other public institutions and in collaboration with social partners, have long been active in addressing child labour and its worst forms through the combined use of advisory and enforcement actions. Despite these efforts, child labour continues to be a concern worldwide and, in most countries, inspectorates could leverage the action of other relevant players, among which are child labour monitors. Whilst many good practices of collaboration are recognised, it is also true that the synergies of these two mechanisms are not well known and thus there is the potential to improve collaboration.

  20. Collection and Use of Labour Inspection Statistics - A short guide

    11 January 2017

    This guide is intended to introduce governments, in particular ministries of labour and labour inspectorates, the importance of labour inspection statistics and benefits that can be derived from them. The guide presents, in a user-friendly manner, practical advice about labour inspection information and statistics. It details why these statistics are useful and ways in which they can increase the efficiency of inspectorates; what areas they should cover; and how they can be produced, interpreted and presented to stakeholders.