Cincinnati: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1999 http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/99-142.html. The current Safety Guide addresses the assessment of exposure due to external sources of radiation in the workplace.
Ergonomics and Work Organisation
Voluntary Initiatives Affecting Safety, Health and Environmental Training and Education in the Chemical Industry: Report for the Discussion of the Tripartite Meeting on Voluntary Initiatives Affecting Safety, Health and Environmental Training and Education in the Chemical Industry. Workplace ergonomics focuses on the importance of design that fits real people in the real world.
General Occupational Safety and Health
The Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety is the authoritative source of information on all aspects of the multidisciplinary field of occupational safety and health. This book is intended as a guide or reference for the development of occupational health and safety policies and programs.
This report was prepared by the International Labor Office as a basis for discussions at the Joint Meeting on Conditions of Employment and Working Conditions in Health Sector Reforms. This annual source, the world's most important statistical reference on labor issues, provides the main labor statistics for over 190 countries, zones and territories, with tables providing detailed data for the past ten years. Since its first edition in 1935-36, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics has established itself as the world's most important statistical work on labor issues, bringing together in a systematic form a wealth of data from a vast network of authoritative sources of information over some 190 years. countries.
HIV/AIDS
Document for discussion at the Special High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work. Implementing the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work: A Guide to Education and Training. Policy and legal issues related to HIV/AIDS and the world of work Hodges-Aeberhard, J.
Labour Administration and Inspection
It is also a source of information about HIV/AIDS from a working world perspective. Platform for Action on HIV/AIDS in the Context of the World of Work in Africa, adopted by this workshop and endorsed by the Resolution on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the Ninth African Regional Meeting of the ILO, Abidjan. ILO in collaboration with the Joint United-Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (Windhoek, Namibia, 11-13 October 1999). http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/publicat/iloshcat/hygiene.htm.
Occupational Health Services
Provision of occupational health services means carrying out activities in the workplace with the aim of protecting and promoting the safety, health and well-being of workers and improving their working conditions and working environment. Occupational health and safety practices are broader and do not only consist of the activities carried out by the occupational health service. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Good Occupational Health Practice and Evaluation of Occupational Health Services.
Occupational Safety and Health and Persons with Disabilities
Recent changes in occupational health - technical advances, more sophisticated way of investigation, greater emphasis on prevention and holistic approaches, on primary health care, on human rights and more. Workers' health surveillance must operate under controlled, well-organized conditions, preferably in accordance with the ILO's Occupational Health Services Convention, which sets out general principles on occupational health practices and how to establish and manage health services. Report for discussion at the Joint Assembly on Conditions of Employment and Working Conditions in Health Sector Reforms.
Training for mentally disabled people and their trainers – Permitting the mentally disabled a genuine and appropriate exercise of their rights
Collaborative approaches to increasing the participation and outcomes of persons with disabilities in vocational education and training. Based on previous research, this report provides an update on the participation of people with disabilities in vocational education and training (VET) in Victoria. The ILO has commissioned this document on "The Right to Decent Work of Persons with Disabilities" as a contribution to ongoing discussions in preparation for the development of a United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems
Occupational safety and health management systems: a review of their effectiveness in providing healthy and safe workplaces. Health and Safety Management Regulation in the European Union: A Study of the Dynamics of Change Walters, David (ed.). Introduction: Regulation of Health and Safety Management in the European Union, David Walters, Ton Wilthagen, Per Langaa Jensen.
Technology
The use of occupational health and safety management systems in EU Member States: Experiences at company level. Symposium on Information Technologies in the Media and Entertainment Industries: Their Impact on Employment, Labor Relations, and Labor-Management Relations. This report was prepared by the International Labor Office as a basis for discussions at a symposium on information technologies in the media and entertainment industries.
Training and Education
Computer Health Hazards and New Organizational Possibilities: Experiences in the Media Industry Pickshaus, Klaus. The debate on expected workplace trends arising from the digital revolution has reached the area of occupational health and safety standards. It consists of over 80 safety checklists covering occupational and environmental hazards in schools - but especially in shops and small businesses.
Workers’ Representation and Participation
It enables users of checklists to identify occupational and environmental health and safety hazards and areas in need of improvement. The program provides technical assistance, resources and guidance to ensure that the school complies with occupational and environmental health and safety regulations. The project identifies and assesses the supports and constraints for representative participation in health and safety in small enterprises.
Workers’ Health Promotion
Drugs and Alcohol
They mapped out plans to integrate abuse prevention into workplace quality and safety programs, increase support services for employers, launch business-to-business networks, improve business-community collaboration, and promote collaboration with schools. Working together in Europe 1999, Fourth International Private Sector Conference on Drugs in the Workplace and in the Community (Europe). To create a network of business partners and community leaders to activate and maintain drug prevention programs in European workplaces and communities.
Occupational Stress
In an attempt to address this problem, representatives of the private sector met with public authorities, including the ILO, in Sweden recently to discuss the issue. 360-degree feedback: self- or assisted development?' by Bruce Murphy (pp. 26-28), who describes this development tool and uses a case study to illustrate the importance of the infrastructure to support it;. And to complete the picture, one of the main causes of work-related stress – bullying – is explored, including measures that can be taken to reduce the occurrence of stress.
Sexual Harassment
It is clear that this topic is one of the main challenges that we are all currently facing – as employers, employees, prevention professionals, policy makers, researchers and so on, in all sectors and in organizations large and small. There is a strong focus on helping to stimulate activity and a range of 'real life' case studies from organizations across Europe, from SMEs to large companies, demonstrate that work-related stress can be successfully tackled. This booklet provides managers with invaluable information on what companies around the world are doing to address the issue of sexual harassment.
Violence at Work
We are becoming more and more aware of the scale of the problem and the different forms such violence can take. This book examines existing legislation, guidelines and practices and calls for a systematic approach in response to a problem that is now being tackled by other international agencies and that may take a heavy toll on many people in the world. When work becomes dangerous: Punching, spitting, swearing, shooting In: World of Work: ILO Journal, No.
Women Workers
After approval of the report of the committee appointed to deal with the fifth item on the agenda. In particular, approved as general conclusions, for the purpose of consultation with Governments, of proposals for the revision of the Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 (No. 103), and Recommendation, 1952 (No. 95). The purpose of the publication is to provide a compilation of information on the position of female workers in Hungary and to provide training materials for future training on the rights of female workers in Hungary.
Specific Industrial Sectors
Agriculture and Agrochemicals
This report contains the introduction to the issue and an analysis of legislation and practice in agriculture in different countries. It was accompanied by a questionnaire and communicated to the governments of the ILO Member States, who were invited to send their replies to reach the Office by 30 June 1999. This report has been prepared on the basis of the replies received, the contents of which together with brief comments are given on the following pages.
Inland Transport: Roads and Waterways
In accordance with Article 39 of the Standing Order of the Conference, which deals with the preliminary stages of the double discussion procedure, the Office prepared a preliminary report (1), which was intended to serve as a basis for the first discussion of this matter. It will focus on working and living conditions, employment, industrial relations and revised training needs in light of the new skills required by flexible production systems. Increasingly, more and more responsibility is being placed on suppliers, as companies outsource the production of up to 70 percent of the components they need in final assembly.
Maritime
Report of the meeting of the joint IMO/ILO ad hoc expert working group on liability and compensation claims relating to death, personal injury and abandonment of seafarers. Attached is the report of the IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Expert Working Group on Liability and Compensation in Claims for Death, Personal Injury and Abandonment of Seafarers, which met from 11 to 15 October 1999 at the Headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Report of the Second Meeting of the Joint IMO/ILO Ad Hoc Working Group on the Study of Human Factors in Maritime Accidents.
Other
Safety and health in the non-ferrous metal industry: an ILO code of practice International Labor Organization p. Safety in the use of radiofrequency dielectric heaters and sealants: a practical guide Occupational Safety and Health Series, No. Safety in the use of synthetic vitreous fiber insulation wool (glass wool, rock wool, slag wool): an ILO code of practice.
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