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GENEVA: The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) new guidelines on safety and health in shipbreaking in Asia and Turkey, are now available in print. The guidelines are the first of their kind and will assist in improving the health and safety of workers in the dismantling and recycling of ships, one of the world’s most hazardous occupations.
Titled “Safety and health in shipbreaking; Guidelines for Asian countries and Turkey”, the publication provides practical advice on how to transform a mainly informal sector activity into the more formal, organised economy. The guide will also help those involved in establishing effective national frameworks in countries where regulations do not already exist.
Publication of the guidelines was approved by the ILO at its meeting in March 2004, having been previously agreed upon by an international tripartite meeting of experts on the shipbreaking industry in Bangkok on October 7-14, 2003. Trade unionists from IMF affiliates in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey and the IMF's regional representative for Asia and the Pacific were participants at the Bangkok meeting.
To download a pdf copy of the guidelines, click on the following link to the ILO website: ILO's guidelines on safety and health in shipbreaking (a large pdf document).
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