Publications & technical tools
2002
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Publication
Social dialogue in the health services. Institutions, capacity and effectiveness. Report JMHS/2002
12 September 2002
Describes approaches to social dialogue and the institutions required for its development, including ILO's role. Includes brief case studies from several countries.
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Publication
Improved security of seafarer’s identification. Report 91 VII (1)
16 August 2002
International Labour Conference, 91st Session 2003. Report VII (1) This report reviews various means of increasing the security of seafarers' identification with a view to the adoption of a Protocol to the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No. 108).
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Publication
Standards, Principles and Approaches in Occupational Health Services
01 July 2002
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Publication
Using the ILO Code of Practice and training manual - Guidelines for trade unions
01 May 2002
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Publication
Labour inspection. A guide to the profession
24 April 2002
Labour Inspection is an authoritative, comprehensive guide to labour inspection and its fundamental principles. It emphasizes that labour inspection is a profession in its own right, and requires a professional approach. It presents policy issues in an international context, while examining how the major, foreseeable developments in economics, the labour market, technology, as well as national, sectoral, and enterprise social structures, affect labour inspection
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Publication
New challenges and opportunities for occupational safety and health in a globalized world
01 April 2002
Globalisation of the economy has intensified over the recent years and, together with the development of the new information and telecommunications technology, it is bringing about radical changes in society, comparable to those produced during the industrial revolution. Occupational safety and health (OSH) cannot ignore those changes. And, in this context, the greatest challenge for the countries is the transformation of the difficulties involved in adapting to the new situation into opportunities for the future development of OSH.
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The Economics of Health, Safety and Well-being
Barefoot Economics: Assessing the economic value of developing an healthy work environment
01 February 2002
The objective of this publication is to provide a practical evaluation tool to entrepreneurs and all those actively involved in the decision making within enterprises, to meet this challenge by creating healthier and more productive workplaces. An attempt to present practical tools of a different type is given in this publication.
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Publication
Labour inspection: A guide to the profession
01 January 2002
Provides guidance on labour inspection, its fundamental principles, its role, scope, policy, organization, management and functions. Identifies and analyses best practices in some high-performance inspection systems in ILO Member States.
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Publication
Guidelines for the use of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses, 2000 edition
01 January 2002
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Second edition
Children at work: Health and safety risks
01 January 2002
This second edition of this useful and informative book provides an approach to the protection of children through the development of a programme on occupational safety and health specifically addressed to working children. It illustrates how this can be done within a framework of a national policy aimed at the elimination of child labour.
2001
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Policy
National occupational safety and health policy: Mauritius (2001)
31 December 2001
The Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations, in consultation with all stakeholders and in particular with the employers and workers organisations, has formulated a national occupational safety and health (OSH) policy. This policy has been formulated on the basis of a national tripartite conference held from 29 to 31 October 2001.
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Publication
Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems (ILO-OSH 2001)
06 December 2001
At the onset of the twenty-first century, a heavy human and economic toll is still exacted by work-related injuries, ill health, diseases, incidents and deaths. These Guidelines call for coherent policies to protect workers from occupational hazards and risks while improving productivity. They present practical approaches and tools for assisting organizations, competent national institutions, employers, workers and other social partners in establishing, implementing and improving occupational safety and health management systems, with the aim of reducing work-related injuries, ill health, diseases, incidents and deaths.
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Publication
The construction industry in the twenty-first century: Its image, employment prospects and skill requirements
29 October 2001
The report was prepared for the 2001 ILO Tripartite Meeting on the Construction Industry. The main theme of the report is changing employment relationships and industrial structures in the construction industry and the impact of these changes on the quality of employment in the industry. The report reviews changes in the construction industry in the 1990s and considers directions for the future.
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Publication
Guidance for the prevention of stress and violence at the workplace
16 October 2001
This guidance addresses the nature of stress and violence at work, whether and how work stress and violence affect health and well-being, and what can be done to eliminate or reduce these problems. Employers, employees and their respective organisations are encourage to use this guidance, implement and continually refine their actions and programmes to eliminate and control the problems of stress and violence at work.
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Publication
The ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work
01 June 2001
The code provides invaluable practical guidance to policy-makers, employers’ and workers’ organizations and other social partners for formulating and implementing appropriate workplace policy, prevention and care programmes, and for establishing strategies to address workers in the informal sector. It is the product of collaboration between the ILO and its tripartite constituents, as well as cooperation with its international partners.
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Publication
Labour inspection and occupational safety and health management systems
14 May 2001
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Sectoral working papers, 167
Worker safety in the ship-breaking industries
01 February 2001
This issues paper highlights the procedures and practices adopted in the disposal of obsolete ships originating from the world fleet of merchant vessels with an emphasis on occupational safety and health (OSH) issues and on environmental aspects as shipbreaking is undertaken today by the world-breaking majors on beachheads in Asia.
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Report Commissioned by the International Labour Organization
The cost of violence/stress at work and the benefits of a violence/stress-free working environment
01 January 2001
This report explores the issues of stress and violence at work with the aim of establishing the costs these problems may present to the individual, the organisation and society.
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Publication
Safety in the use of synthetic vitreous fibre insulation wools (glass wool, rock wool, slag wool). ILO code of practice.
01 January 2001
"...a good basis for developing more specific policies and procedures for your operation or facility. The appendix on classification includes a fairly detailed description of how these products are classified as health hazards under various classification systems, including IARC, the European Union, ACGIH and the proposed Globally Harmonized system." The Synergist, December 2002 USA
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Publication
Work-related stress in nursing
01 January 2001
Sources of stress in nursing; the control cycle approach to stress prevention for nurses