THE NEED FOR AN EFFECTIVE LABOUR INSPECTION.

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A STRONG LABOUR INSPECTION IS ESSENTIAL FOR WORKERS HEALTH AND SAFETY AT THE JOB

Everyday thousands of workers all over the world are killed and injured at the working places and exploited by unscrupulous employers. An effective and non-corrupt labour inspection that controls the workplaces is of primary importance, especially where unions are weak or non-existent! This site is supported by Samarbejdet Arbejdere og Akademikere in Denmark. For more information contact : graversgaard(ad)youseepost.dk .

HAZARDS MAGAZINE. Hazards looks behind the company safety hype, and gives union answers to workplace problems. Using a global network of union safety correspondents, Hazards makes sure you have the best information available anywhere.

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    • INFORMATION ON WORKERS HEALTH AND SAFETY AND LABOUR INSPECTION

    WOMEN GARMENT WORKERS IN THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN SUFFER FROM COVID-19

  • WOMEN GARMENT WORKERS

    • LABOUR INSPECTION. A PUBLIC SERVICE IN CRISIS. News Issue by European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). "Articles on the attacks and degradation of labour inspection, that signals the end of social protection of workers?"

  • READ HESAMAG

    NEW WORKERS' GUIDE TO HEALTH AND SAFETY "What people are saying: Sanjiv Pandita, Director, Asia Monitor Resource Centre: "This book has already empowered hundreds of workers involved in its field-testing across Asia. It will also serve as an excellent resource manual for grassroots women's groups who are working to empower women leaders and organizers. Hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia need and will benefit from this book."

  • INCREDIBLY USEFUL AND HELPING WORKERS TO ACHIEVE SAFE AND DIGNIFIED JOBS

    • NEWS FROM BANGLADESH "Garrett Brown about the OHS Initiative for Workers and Communities in Bangladesh"

  • THE RANA PLAZA MOMENT IN BANGLADESH WAS A SHOCK WITH ALMOST 1200 GARMENT WORKERS KILLED IN ONE ACCIDENT

    • TRAGEDY WITH NO END IN BANGLADESH. "With more than 1100 workers trapped and killed in a building with garment factories, factory inspection must be drastically overhauled"

  • HRW: ALLOW WORKERS TO UNIONIZE; OVERHAUL FACTORY INSPECTIONS

    • QATAR`S BRUTAL LABOUR SYSTEM: AMNESTY REPORT. "Spotlight on Qatar’s construction sector ahead of the World Cup...workers are treated as slaves"

  • THE SYSTEM FOR MIGRANT WORKERS IN QATAR: 10 KEY FACTS

    • ASBESTOS: THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL. “Anyone who has lost someone to asbestos related disease will understand when I say, nothing is ever 'normal' again. The anger, the bitterness and the fear remains and is always lurking below the surface.”

  • LATEST FROM THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ASBESTOS CORPORATIONS

    • DRASTIC CUTS ON LABOUR INSPECTION IN UK: The chock doctrine used by the neoliberal right wing government in UK, opens the door for a more raw capitalism where workers health and safety is hit hard. The HSE saw its budget cut by 35 per cent and that, combined with a 28 per cent cut in local government funding, will have a damaging impact on safety in workplaces up and down the UK.

  • MORE PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO MADE ILL BY THEIR JOBS, AND KILLED OR INJURED AT WORK

    • CSR and GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS by Garrett Brown: Working conditions, including workplace safety, in global supply chains of products sold by transnational corporations have only marginally improved over the last 15 years despite the development of hundreds of corporate “codes of conduct,” code monitoring systems, and an elaborate new “corporate social responsibility” industry. Read his breathtaking article from New Solutions

  • GENUINE WORKER PARTICIPATION—AN INDISPENSABLE KEY TO EFFECTIVE GLOBAL OHS.

    • LESSONS FOR US AND OTHER OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES AFTER THE CATASTROPHE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO: Production and profit are too often in competition with safety. So there must be separate labour inspection for offshore safety. Read about how the Piper Alpha incident in UK moved inspection away from being too close to the industry. A thing to be learned also in US.

  • NEED FOR INDEPENDENT INSPECTION ON OFF SHORE ACTIVITIES.

    • BUILDING TOWERS, Cheating Workers. Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates

  • Read this report about the secrets of the DUBAI GOLD RUSH

    • WORKERS HEALTH AND SAFETY IN CHINA

  • Special issue of IJOEH on China
  • Lean Manufacturing Comes to China: A Case Study of Its Impact on Workplace Health and Safety

    • EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES OR FREE ZONES - THE EXPERIENCE FROM A TRADE UNION POINT OF VIEW

  • Jesper Nielsen, International advisor of the United Federation of Danish Workers (3F) says: Free zones, or export processing zones have swelled in number over the last 30-40 years to a global total of more than 5,000 zones. Today, there are 43 million workers employed in such zones, where workers are denied their basic rights.

    • ILO ESTIMATES THAT 2.2 MILLION WORKERS ARE KILLED OR DISABLED EVERY YEAR

  • Work can be a killing machine

    • SELLING DEATH: ABOUT THE GLOBAL ASBESTOS INDUSTRY(from Hazards)

  • Read HAZARDS MAGAZINE about asbestos

    • CHILD LABOUR: Child labour is now widely recognised as a global issue. Many countries have adopted ILO Convention 182 on eliminating the worst forms of child labour, and labour inspectorates now integrate relevant activities within their own work programmes. However, there is a need for more information and assistance on this subject in order for labour inspectorates to deal with the challenges effectively. Read the essential handbook from ILO: COMBATING CHILD LABOUR: A HANDBOOK FOR LABOUR INSPECTORS

  • COMBATING CHILD LABOUR

    • DOCUMENTS ON LABOUR INSPECTION PRACTICE

  • INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS ON LABOUR INSPECTION

  • FORCED LABOUR AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING. A handbook for Labour Inspectors

  • HOW TO INSPECT IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES by John Graversgaard

  • PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS: HOW CAN LABOUR INSPECTION INSPECT PSYCHOSOCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE WORKPLACE? Presented by John Graversgaard in "Stress at work in enlarging Europe", ISPESL, 2004.

  • SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN SME`S. BEST EU PRACTICES REGARDING SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES(SME`S). HOW CAN LABOUR INSPECTION SUPPORT LABOUR PREVENTION? Best practice of labour inspection in European countries: Methods presented to the Polish State Labour Inspection by John Graversgaard

    • LINKS TO STRATEGIC INFORMATION ON WORKERS HEALTH AND SAFETY

  • International Ban Asbestos Secretariat

  • Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network: Homepage

  • Maquiladora Health and Safety Supprt Network: Newsletter

  • Basel Network: An International Network of Activists Seeking to Prevent the Globalization of The Toxic Chemical Crisis

  • Campaign for The Welfare State: Attacks on Labour Inspection is also an Attack on The Welfare State

  • European Trade Union Institute: Health and Safety at Work

    • CORRUPTION IN LABOUR INSPECTION? -FIGHT AGAINST THIS DISEASE

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    THE BASIC ROLE OF UNIONS

    Unions have always been an important tool in the fight for health and safety at work, against exploitation and repression. Trade union rights are human rights!

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