The International Labor Organization

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Swepston
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Codes Of Practice ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The Right

Occupational safety and health (OSH) is a vital part of the right to health. While the International Labor Organization (ILO) historically treated OSH as an entirely technical matter, it has increasingly been influenced by a human rights agenda. The ILO has responded by adopting and promoting a large number of international standards—in the form of conventions, recommendations, and codes of practice that result in protection against dangers at work. These standards combat specific risks, guide the establishment of health protection across industries, provide guidance for dealing with HIV and AIDS in the workplace, help to set up systems of health protection, provide for how disabled workers can function, and design social security regimes. The ILO also provides practical help to prevent accidents and diseases at the workplace and to stop industrial accidents that kill and injure large numbers of workers—and that have a damaging influence on public health.

scholarly journals Occupational Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Issues Linked to Erosion of Systems and Replacement of Machines

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Talha Majeed Khan ◽  
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Qais Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Work Related ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The Future ◽  
Risk Managers

Managing market risk under unknown future shocks is a critical issue for policymakers, investors and professional risk managers. These shocks can be external to the firm, like demand conditions or conditions in the market as well as internal shocks like inefficiencies or issues of governance in a business entity. More important is the health of machines and viability of systems that are in place in a firm that might threaten the safety of the workforce, tend to take the organizational management towards expensive litigation and eroding in the future of its brand position. “According to recent estimates released by the International Labor Organization (ILO), each year 2.78 million workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases (of which 2.4 million are disease-related) and an additional 374 million workers suffer from non-fatal occupational accidents. It is estimated that lost workdays globally represent almost 4 percent of the world’s GDP” (International Labor Organization (ILO), 2019) Problem statement A large number of firms in Pakistan are noncompliance of governance guideline especially in Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) and therefore the present study will take as SHE as its basis to investigate the future issues in the industrial sector of Pakistan.

Review of the International Experience in Terms of Ensuring Safe Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
S.G. Bisakaev ◽  
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S.A. Bekeeva ◽  
Е.V. Savvin ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
The Republic

To implement the Strategic development plan for the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with the codes and standards of the International Labor Organization, it became necessary to develop the Concept of Safe Work. Review of the international labor codes and standards in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows various approaches of the current system of public administration. Development of the international practice in the field of occupational safety and health is moving from compensatory to preventive measures. When developing the Concept of Safe Work in the Republic of Kazakhstan, it is required to consider the international labor codes and standards, and the experience of the Great Britain, Germany, Finland, France, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, the United States, and Japan. Tripartite and risk-oriented approaches are of particular interest. It is also necessary to study and adapt the efficient international experience: monitoring based on the assessment of occupational risks at the enterprises; participation of the state inspectors in the work of the centralized committee for monitoring and control over the observance of labor legislation; control and verification of the use of allocated funds; participation of insurance organizations in the financial measures for occupational safety and health, subsidization for the modernization of the outdated equipment; the program to assist and support small and medium-sized enterprises in risk assessment; system and culture of safe work with personal responsibility of the manager; laboratories for checking the classification of personal protective equipment by purpose depending on the protective properties. Scientific research, adaptation, and development of the scientific and methodological foundations for ensuring safe work in the priority sectors of the country economy, as well as bringing the safety and health management system of the Republic of Kazakhstan in line with the codes and standards of the International Labor Organization, are of great importance.

ILO Centenary Anniversary and Development of Work Statistics

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
A. A. Tkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Working Poor ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Development Goals

The article addresses methodological issues of labour statistics in the context of ongoing work of international organizations, first of all the International Labor Organization (ILO), as well as eff orts of national governments on implementing the system of indicators to monitor progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The paper shows conceptual approaches of the oldest international organization (that is the ILO) to the development of its statistical base in the 21st century and focusing its activities on the Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the UN General Assembly. The paper reviews the ILO centenary history of work on improving social and labour relations and labour statistics. It analyzes the activities of the International Labor Organization related to the development of its statistical base; special attention is paid to the development of a system of indicators to monitor progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the definite positive changes in in the ILO’s work, comparative analysis of recent ILO and World Bank reports revealed unresolved problems in the fields of international standards and labour statistics. Considerable attention has been paid to the main ILO initiatives on improving employment indicators reflected in the content of international conferences of labour statisticians. The role of indicators of decent work was especially highlighted, while the author noted that the very concept of ≪decent work≫, in contrast to the concept of ≪quality of work≫, did not receive sufficient statistical content. The article formulates the need for changes in Russian labour and social statistics in connection with the development of a list of SDG indicators and acute attention that is given to the “international poverty line” and “working poor”. It is necessary to bring Russian terminology of statistical indicators of ≪working poor≫ into line with the methodology and terminology of the ILO and the World Bank.

International Labor Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-393
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Continuous Activities

The eighth annual report of the International Labor Organization to the United Nations noted that certain projects, although desirable, had had to be deferred or eliminated from the 1955 program and budget for financial reasons. A number of periodical technical meetings which would ordinarily have been held in 1955 had had to be postponed, and certain ILO projects under the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance as well as a number of ILO field activities financed under the regular budget had been also adversely affected by the shortage of funds. The first chapter of the report dealt with major developments in the work of ILO in 1953 and the early part of 1954; these lay in the fields of productivity, wages and housing in underdeveloped areas, workers in non-metropolitan territories, indigenous workers in independent countries, agricultural labor including plantation workers, and national labor departments. The second chapter of the report summarized the semi-continuous activities of ILO in such fields as occupational safety and health, manpower, and statistics.

The International Labor Organization: The International Standards System and Basic Human Rights

1996 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Richard N. Cooper ◽  
Héctor G. Bartolomei de la Cruz ◽  
Geraldo Von Potobsky ◽  
Lee Swepston ◽  
Lance A. Compa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor

International Labor Organization

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-266
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Industrial Accidents ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Fourth Session

The Building, Civil Engineering and Public Works Committee of the International Labor Organization held its fourth session in Geneva from October 26 through November 6, 1953, under the chairmanship of M. Kaufmann (Switzerland), a government member of the Governing Body. Reports had been submitted by the International Labor Office on the three items on the meeting's agenda: 1) a general report dealing particularly with action taken by ILO members and the Governing Body in the light of previous committee conclusions; 2) methods of facilitating the progressive application in the construction industry of the principle of a guaranteed wage; and 3) factors affecting the productivity of the construction industry. After the delegates – which represented 24 countries on a tripartite basis – analyzed the problems and progress which the construction industry faced in their countries, the committee approved a series of resolutions which covered such subjects as: 1) action by engineers and architects with a view to raising productivity in the industry, 2) contract practices, 3) vocational training, 4) mechanization, 5) the psychologicàl factor involved in raising productivity, and 5) sharing the benefits of in-creased productivity. A memorandum concerning a guaranteed wage was approved without opposition which endorsed the principle of a guaranteed wage, either by agreeing to provide a specified period of work at ordinary rate of pay or by paying a minimum sum during the specified period regardless of whether or not the workers could be kept employed in customary or reasonably alternate work. In a further resolution, the committee stressed the role which the construction industries could play in implementing policies of full employment. By a vote of 60 to 39 with 24 abstentions it decided to place on the agenda of its next session the questions of protection of conditions of employment and living conditions of young workers, prevention of industrial accidents, reduction of hours of work, and practical measures for securing and maintaining full employment in the construction industry.

Federal Governments and International Labor Agreements

1931 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 424-431
Author(s):  
Harold W. Stoke
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Rest Period ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Legal Difficulties ◽  
The Right

The International Labor Organization has become one of the most active of all the international institutions of the post-war period. According to the treaty of Versailles, international labor conferences, composed of delegates from countries which are members of the International Labor Organization, are to meet annually to consider and adopt recommendations and conventions applicable to labor problems and conditions throughout the world. The subjects for a number of possible agreements are suggested in the Versailles treaty, and include the right of association of laborers, the establishment of the eight-hour day, the adoption of the weekly rest period, the abolition of child labor, and various related matters. In drafting conventions and recommendations, the conferences are to be guided by a number of principles laid down in the Versailles treaty, and are asked to recognize that “differences of climate, habit and customs, of economic opportunity and industrial tradition, make strict uniformity in the conditions of labor difficult of immediate attainment.”Economic difficulties alone were recognized, at first, by the makers of the treaty of Versailles as standing in the way of the attainment of “strict uniformity in the conditions of labor.” It was, however, soon brought to the attention of the Peace Conference that governments might not all prove equally competent constitutionally to deal with labor problems, and that some might prove totally lacking in legal capacity to adhere to the proposed labor conventions. This legal limitation was felt to be especially likely to arise in the case of federal governments, in many of which all matters of labor legislation are reserved to the member-states, and hence are beyond the legislative powers of the central governments. It was predicted by some that these legal difficulties would prove more stubborn obstacles to the uniform regulation of labor matters than differences in climate, habits and customs, and economic opportunity.

scholarly journals MECANISMOS DE CONSULTA A LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS EN EL MARCO DEL CONVENIO 169 DE LA OIT: EL CASO MEXICANO

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Cruz Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Territorial Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sobre Todo

El entender la consulta como derecho ciudadano que conlleva el consentimiento previo e informado sobre temas que afectan a la ciudadanía, y sobre todo como derecho colectivo de los pueblos indígenas, incluidos los de México, no ha sido desarrollado hasta el momento. La intención de este trabajo es argumentar la necesidad del reconocimiento de este derecho y cómo en la práctica los pueblos indígenas han sido afectados en sus territorios al no ser consultados. En el mismo sentido, se hace un análisis que toma como referentes el Convenio 169 para Pueblos indígenas y tribales en países independientes, de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, y la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Finalmente se comparte una propuesta de consulta a pueblos indígenas.   ABSTRACT Understanding has not been developed to date regarding the right to consultation as a citizen right that implies prior and informed consent by citizens regarding issues affecting them, and in particular as a collective right of indigenous peoples, including the indigenous peoples of Mexico. The intention of this document is to argue the need for recognition of this right and to discuss how territorial rights of indigenous peoples have been affected in practice due to lack of consultation. In this same sense, an analysis is presented with references to the International Labor Organization (ILO) Agreement 169 on indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries, and to Mexico’s Constitution. Finally, a proposal is presented regarding consultation of indigenous peoples.

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