Training materials
2020
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Instructional material
Participatory Action-Oriented Training (PAOT)
10 February 2020
PAOT is a practical method of stimulating and supporting workplace initiatives in grassroots workplaces relying on self-help voluntary actions.
2014
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Instructional material
HealthWISE - Work Improvement in Health Services
31 July 2014
HealthWISE is a practical, participatory quality improvement tool for health facilities. The HealthWISE package consists of an Action Manual and a Trainers' Guide to combine action and learning. Topics include occupational safety and health, personnel management and environmental health.
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Second edition
Ergonomic checkpoints in agriculture: Practical and easy-to-implement solutions for improving safety, health and working conditions
21 March 2014
This manual presents practical solutions for improvements in agricultural work and rural life from an ergonomics point of view. The checkpoints it lists are intended to be used as a means to improve existing working and living conditions, for better safety, health and efficiency in agricultural and rural settings.
2006
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Instructional material
Tackling hazardous child labour in agriculture: Guidance on policy and practice
01 October 2006
This toolkit has been produced to help policy-makers ensure that agriculture is a priority sector for the elimination of child labour. The guidebooks included in this package provide policy-makers and stakeholder organizations with information and ideas needed to plan, formulate and implement policies and programmes to tackle hazardous child labour in agriculture.
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Instructional material
Work Improvement for Safe Home (WISH): Action manual for improving safety, health and working conditions of home workers
01 January 2006
The WISH action manual is designed to provide home workers with practical, easy-to-implement ideas to improve their safety, health and working conditions. These improvements will also contribute to higher productivity and efficiency of their work and promote active participation and cooperation of home workers in the same workplace or in the same community.
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Instructional material
A tool kit for labour inspectors: A model enforcement policy, a training and operations manual, a code of ethical behaviour
01 January 2006
The toolkit provides three basic tools necessary for a modern labour inspection practice that is both efficient and effective. It is hoped that the Policy, the Manual and the Code will become the useful, standard reference texts for labour inspection and labour inspectors in many countries.
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Instructional material
Integrated Labour Inspection Training System (ILITS)
01 January 2006
High standards of inspector training are essential for the pivotal role of labour inspection if decent work is to be promoted at the enterprise level, especially with all the challenge arising from a rapidly changing world of work. ILITS provides a new modular approach to such training.
2005
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Training programme on safety, health and working conditions in agriculture
Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development (WIND)
01 August 2005
This WIND manual consists of 42 checkpoints useful for improving safety, health and working conditions in agriculture. Special focus is placed on easy-to-implement solutions and learning from existing local good examples. The ideas you will find in this manual are concrete, practical and can be implemented at low-cost.
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Instructional material
A handbook on HIV/AIDS for labour and factory inspectors
01 February 2005
This handbook aims to help labour inspectors deal with the issue of HIV/AIDS. It establishes the links between the key principles and core responsibilities of labour inspectorates and the management of HIV/AIDS at the workplace. It includes training activities and practical tools to help inspectors integrate HIV/AIDS in their work.
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Instructional material
Framework guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the health sector: The training manual
01 January 2005
This manual is a practical, user-friendly tool that builds on the policy approach of the Framework Guidelines. Representatives of governments, employers and workers would be well served to use the manual in training situations, so as to encourage social dialogue among health sector stakeholders and develop, in consultation, approaches to address violence in the workplace.
2004
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Instructional material
Work Improvements in Small Enterprises (WISE) - Package for trainers
01 January 2004
This training package is aimed at upgrading the skills of WISE trainers in Asia who conduct training courses and provide technical assistance for local small enterprises. It helps both entrepreneurs and workers benefit from the productivity gain and safety and health improvements. Its six basic training principles are: build on local practice; focus on achievements; link working conditions with other management goals; use learning-by-doing; encourage exchange of experience; promote workers’ involvement.
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Instructional material
Health, safety and environment: A series of trade union education manuals for agricultural workers
01 January 2004
This series of manuals has been developed to help union affiliates representing agricultural workers to tackle health, safety and environmental problems (HS&E), through their training programmes.
1999
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Instructional material
Participatory Action Training for Informal Sector (PATRIS): Trainer's guide
01 March 1999
This brief guide explains how to organise and carry out training designed to improve safety, health and working conditions in the informal sector workplaces by using the attached training materials.
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Instructional material
Participatory Action Training for Informal Sector (PATRIS): Operator's manual
01 March 1999
This manual shows how to take simple, effective, and low-cost action which improves safety and health at the workplace and at the same time raises productivity. The training method encourages owners and operators to make concrete improvements at the shop-floor level.
1998
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Instructional material
Chemical safety training modules
01 January 1998
The training modules introduce safe use of chemicals at workplaces, present classification systems for the labelling and transport of dangerous goods, allow the reading and use of chemical safety cards, give a basic overview of toxicology and disseminate information on selected, widely used, hazardous substances.
1996
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Instructional material
Your health and safety at work (series)
01 January 1996
The modules of this series have been developed to help trainers teach essential information on occupational health and safety to workers. Trainers can use these modules to teach workers from any workplace where basic health and safety information and training are needed.
1995
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Instructional material
Safety, health and welfare on construction sites: A training manual
01 January 1995
This manual, a revised and expanded version of a 1990 edition, will help consider safety, health and welfare conditions on construction sites in and learn about possible solutions to the encountered problems. It has been developed primarily for construction site workers, their representatives and the workers’ immediate supervisors.
1993
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Instructional material
Safety and health in the use of chemicals at work
12 February 1993
This training manual addresses all aspects of dealing with chemicals including production, storage, use, transport and disposal. It provides an approach to problems and solutions concerning safety and health in the use of chemicals at work. It is written in straightforward language and assumes a minimum of technical knowledge. The manual also includes the texts of ILO Convention No. 170 and ILO Recommendation No. 177 and a system for classification, identification and labelling of chemicals.
1991
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Instructional material
Safety and health in the use of agrochemicals: A guide
01 January 1991
The information in the present guide will be of value to those directly engaged in the handling and use of agrochemicals. Emphasis has been laid extensively on safe handling and use, and on practical measures to be taken to avoid undue consequences. The guide is intended for use as a training aid in ILO technical co-operation projects to encourage action at national level.
1987
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Instructional material
Safety-health and working conditions
01 January 1987
This training manual is prepared as a tool for training people directly concerned with workplace improvements. The manual is aimed at managers, supervisors, workers, safety representatives and others in all kinds of industries. It is designed particularly for use in developing countries.