IFCS Occupational
Health and Safety
Programme Area D: Establishment of Risk
Reduction Programmes
Risk reduction programmes for chemical
safety in workplaces are generally conducted as a sub-set of the overall
occupational safety and health programmes. With respect to the sound
management of chemicals, workplace risk reduction programmes offer wide-ranging
opportunities for intervention at source, thereby extending the benefits
beyond health and safety considerations within the enterprise to those
of the environment and the public. More
details about Programme Area D .
| This initial listing of selected resources has been compiled
by an IFCS Champion Work Group on OSH. It is intended to provide
information and guidance. The mention of specific resources or
their producers does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended
by the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety in preference
to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. There
are many interlinkages between the recommendations, thus the
resources listed in many cases support several recommendations,
although listed only under one. Unless otherwise indicated,
the resources list are available only in English.
Suggestions of additional resources for listing
on the website may be submitted to the IFCS
Secretariat. Please indicate the programme(s) and
specific recommendation(s) that the resource supports. |
Worldwide
Initiatives
Recommended action items:
Facilitate
the development, enhancement, updating and implementation of ILO Conventions
and supplementary consensus instruments that help to promote the sound
management of chemicals in the workplace
- Introductory
Report Decent Work – Safe Work (September 2005)
This ILO report provides an overview of the most recent estimates
of occupational and work – related accidents and diseases,
world - wide, some of the causes for recent changes and what the
ILO and its member States are doing to improve conditions in the
workplace for the millions who are at risk from injury.
Pay special
attention to the needs of workers in the Small and Medium Enterprises
(SMEs), the informal sector, migrant workers, self employed, waged
workers and vulnerable groups, including children, young persons,
women and elderly in addressing risk reduction programs for chemical
safety in the workplace.
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Tips
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Ministry of Labour, Ontario
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Implement
the ILO Guidelines on Occupational Safety and Health Management System
(ILO – OSH 2001) paying special attention to the safe use of
chemicals
- Safe
Work and Safe Culture
ILO Report for World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2004
As our world develops, with new technologies and new patterns
of work, the challenge changes. To meet this challenge, the ILO
believes that, in addition to the many instruments and activities
it has developed over the years, a strong “safety culture”
– built up by governments, employers and workers together
– is crucial. According to the Conclusions of the International
Labour Conference in June 2003, a national preventative safety
and health culture is one in which the right to a safe and healthy
working environment is respected at all levels. It is one where
governments, employers and workers actively participate in securing
a safe and healthy working environment through a system of defined
rights, responsibilities and duties, and where the principle of
prevention is accorded the highest priority. Building and maintaining
a preventative safety and health culture requires making use of
all available means to increase general awareness, knowledge and
understanding of the concepts of hazards and risks and how they
may be prevented or controlled.
Report available in English, French, Spanish, German.
- Mobilizing
to protect worker's health: The WHO Global Strategy on Occupational
Health and Safety
African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety, Volume 11,
number 3, December 2001
This article reviews the work carried out to implement the World
Health Organization Global Strategy on Occupational Health for
all and considers some key issues affecting its implementation.
Enact and
strengthen legislation to protect the health of workers and the public,
covering the entire spectrum of work situations where chemicals are
handled, including such sectors as agriculture and health
- Occupational
Safety and Health Act 2004
US Department of Labor - Occupational Safety & Health Administration
December 29, 1970 as amended through January 1, 2004.
- Legislation
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary of some legislation that applies to the university community.
This article expresses the principles or intent of the law to
protect workers against health and safety hazards.
- Environmental
Protection, Public Health and Human Rights – An Integrated
Assessment - A. Karim Ahmed
A Report Prepared for Science and Human Rights Program, American
Association for the Advancement of Science (April 2003)
This report evaluates the human rights dimensions of significant
environmental and public health issues by:
(1) showing linkages between environment, health and human rights
within the context of sustainable development;
(2) outlining and assessing environmental and public health problems
in various religions of the globe;
(3) examining relevant scientific and technical documents, regulatory
standards/ guidelines and international treaties and conventions.
Address
special chemical safety related problems of illegal work and illegal
migrants
- The
Foreign Workers' Handbook
This handbook is designed to assist foreign workers in asserting
their
rights as workers in Korea. Korea's standard labor law does not
discriminate
workers based on nationality. For this reason, foreign workers
are protected
under the existing labor law.
Develop
system of health and environment impact assessment in chemicals handling
and incorporate it in occupational safety and health programs in countries
as a pre- requisite to boost prevention efforts.
Promote
the necessary training and the capacity to all people involved directly
and indirectly with pesticides use and application in rural areas
- Protecting
Workers' Health Series No. 1
Preventing health risks from the use of pesticides in agriculture
The WHO document is published with the intent to promote health
and safety of workers engaged in agriculture. It is targeted for
use by workers all over the world, especially for those countries
still under development where agriculture is the main source of
sustenance and technology. The document is also meant to serve
as a tool to help health professionals and pest managers in promoting
safe working procedures. It gives a short introduction on pesticides
and labelling/classification systems, a description of how exposure
may take place and information on related health problems. It
also provides practical advice on proper working procedures for
mixing/loading, application, transportation, storage and disposal
of the pesticides.
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French
Spanish
- Inter-Organization
programme for the sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) Inventory
of Activities (database)
The IOMC Inventory provides the title of each activity, the name
of the IOMC Participating Organization (UNEP, ILO, FAO, WHO, UNIDO,
UNITAR, OECD) responsible for implementation, any partners involved,
programme area, outputs of the work, duration of activity, resources
allocated, geographical coverage and the relevant contact point.
The database can be search by type of activity area (e.g. capacity
building, training, pesticides).
Apply the
measure from ILO Convention 169 about work conditions of indigenous
and tribal population in order to prevent the use of specially dangerous
pesticides
Enhance
risk reduction programs through the expansion of insurance coverage
and compensation systems.
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Selected general
references:
CISDOC/CISILO
- The CIS Bibliographic Database
The CIS bibliographic database contains about 65,000 citations of documents
that deal with occupational accidents and diseases as well as ways of preventing
them. The types of documents are: laws and regulations, chemical safety data
sheets, training material, articles from periodical publications, books and
standards. Every record contains a detailed bibliographic description, a full
abstract and indexing descriptors drawn from the CIS Thesaurus. The CISDOC
database is updated on a continuous basis.
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French
Spanish
Fundamental
principles of occupational health and safety (ILO) 2001 - B.
O. Alli
This practical guide to the development of effective occupational health and
safety policies and programmes focuses on the key topics essential to promoting
health and safety in the workplace. It presents a concise overview of the
issues involved, together with specific guidelines for policy design and implementation
at both national and enterprise levels. The operational aspects of meeting
health and safety requirements are also covered, with detailed sections on
legislation and enforcement, occupational health surveillance, and preventive
and protective measures, as well as health education and training. There is
an explanation of the main concepts in occupational health and demonstrates
how relevant ILO Conventions and Recommendations define workers' rights and
allocate duties and responsibilities to competent authorities, employers and
workers. Examples are given of good practice in the surveillance of workers'
health and of the working environment, occupational health services, and reduction
of the incidence of work-related injuries and diseases. Much practical advice
is given to authorities, employers and workers, along with a glossary, a list
of related publications and an example of a health and safety policy.
IPCS Chemical
Safety Training Modules
The Training Modules on Chemical Safety have been compiled in order to introduce
safe use of chemicals at places of work, to present classification systems
for the labelling and transport of dangerous goods, to allow the reading and
use of chemical safety cards, to give a basic overview of toxicology and to
disseminate information on selected, widely used, hazardous substances. It
contains material usable in handouts, demonstrations and exercises, as well
as slides, colour transparencies and diskettes containing text files and databases.
English
French
Spanish
CIS Occupational
Safety and Health Glossary
ILO - International Occupational Safety and Health Information Center (CIS)
Occupational safety and health is an interdisciplinary field, which uses specialist
terms and expressions from subject areas as diverse as engineering, medicine,
law, the physical sciences and psychology. This glossary includes terms from
all these fields and more. Terms are in five (5) languages: English, German,
French, Spanish and Russian.
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