COVER -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART I OVERVIEW -- 1 OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS AND RISKS: THE PROBLEMS AND THE ILO RESPONSE -- An unacceptable situation -- Variations in performance -- Countries -- Economic sectors -- Sizes of enterprise -- Groups at particular risk -- Major OSH instruments -- 2 KEY PRINCIPLES IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH -- Core OSH principles -- Rights and duties -- Workers' rights -- Employers' responsibilities -- Governments' duties -- PART II NATIONAL FRAMEWORK DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- 3 GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH -- 4 NATIONAL POLICY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH -- General aims and principles -- Policy formulation and review -- Policy instruments -- National laws, labour codes and regulations -- Role and obligations of the competent authority -- Policy coordination -- Education and training -- 5 NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH -- 6 NATIONAL PROGRAMMES FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH -- A national profile on occupational safety and health -- 7 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH POLICY WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE -- General framework -- Employers' responsibilities -- Workers' duties and rights -- Safety and health committees -- 8 MANAGEMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH -- Management commitment and resources -- Workers' participation -- Training -- Organizational aspects -- Setting priorities -- Planning and development activities -- The place of OSH management in the enterprise -- Performance measures -- The OSH management cycle -- PART III OPERATIONAL MEASURES -- 9 LEGISLATION, ENFORCEMENT AND COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS -- Labour inspection -- Collective bargaining -- 10 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SURVEILLANCE -- Surveillance of the working environment -- General framework -- Monitoring of exposure -- Occupational exposure limits (OELs).

Record-keeping -- Surveillance of workers' health -- General framework -- Medical examinations, health assessments and biological tests -- Sickness absence monitoring -- Reporting of occupational accidents, injuries and diseases -- Ethical and legal issues -- 11 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES -- General considerations -- Organization -- Functions -- Primary health care approach -- First aid -- Curative health services and rehabilitation -- Special occupational health needs -- Cooperation and coordination -- Research -- 12 HIV/AIDS AND THE WORLD OF WORK -- Principles -- Health services and HIV/AIDS -- Capacity building -- Training for managers, supervisors and personnel officers -- Training for peer educators -- Training for workers' representatives -- Training for safety and health officers -- Training for factory/labour inspectors -- Treatment, care and support -- Voluntary counselling and testing -- Disclosure and confidentiality -- Treatment -- Job security and promotion -- Terms and conditions of work -- Reasonable accommodation -- Worker assistance programmes -- Social protection -- ILO/WHO guidelines on health services and HIV/AIDS -- 13 PREVENTIVE AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES -- General considerations -- Engineering control and housekeeping -- Substitution -- Work practices and organizational methods -- Personal protective equipment -- Technological change -- Protection of the general environment -- 14 HEALTH PROMOTION, EDUCATION AND TRAINING -- Promotion of occupational safety and health -- Training and information at the national level -- Training and information at the enterprise level -- Training methods and materials -- International chemical hazard communication tools -- The International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSCs) -- The Globally Harmonized System for the Classification andLabelling of Chemicals (GHS).

The International Chemical Control Toolkit -- ANNEXES -- I GLOSSARY -- II Relevant ILO OSH instruments - Ratifications and status. -- III Excerpts from major OSH international labour standards -- IV Model outline for the preparation of a national profile on OSH -- V A checklist for employers writing a safety policy statement -- VI A checklist for planning and implementing a workplace policy on HIV/AIDS. -- VII Hierarchy of controls applied to risk of blood-borne pathogen exposure -- VIII Hazard categories defined in the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) -- IX The ILO's Programme on Safety, Health and the Environment (SafeWork) -- X Selected sources of reliable OSH information -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Boxes -- Box 1 The ILO's mandate on occupational safety and health -- Box 2 The burden and cost of occupational accidents and diseases in the United Kingdom -- Box 3 Scope and purpose of OSH standards -- Box 4 Major ILO instruments concerning occupational safety and health in general -- Box 5 Examples of ILO instruments concerning specific risks and substances -- Box 6 Examples of ILO instruments concerning safety and health inspecific branches of economic activity -- Box 7 Examples of recent ILO codes of practice on occupational safety and health -- Box 8 Safety and health at work - A human right -- Box 9 Joint ILO/WHO Committee's definition of occupational health -- Box 10 Key features of a national policy on occupational safety and health -- Box 11 Tripartite formulation of a national OSH policy in Italy -- Box 12 Indonesian national OSH policy and strategy -- Box 13 Hierarchy of preventive and protective measures -- Box 14 Management responsibilities in OSH training -- Box 15 Cooperation between inspectors and workers -- Box 16 Some problems of labour inspection.

Box 17 Surveillance, work and health -- Box 17 Surveillance, work and health (/cont'd) -- Box 18 Risk assessment -- Box 19 Aims of a monitoring strategy for air pollutants -- Box 20 Responsibilities of staff involved in the surveillance of the working environment -- Box 21 Some benefits of good record-keeping -- Box 22 Conditions governing workers' health surveillance -- Box 23 Concepts in occupational health -- Box 24 Functions of an occupational health service -- Box 25 ILO standards particularly relevant to HIV/AIDS -- Box 26 Summary of key principles in the ILO code of practice onHIV/AIDS and the world of work -- Box 26 Summary of key principles in the ILO code of practice onHIV/AIDS and the world of work (cont'd) -- Box 27 Duties of employers when workers are exposed to occupational hazards -- Box 28 Examples of GHS chemical hazard pictograms -- Figures -- Figure 1 How the core OSH standards relate to ILO standards on other issues -- Figure 2 National OSH system modelled from provisions in ILO OSH instruments -- Figure 3 The OSH management cycle.