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Health and Safety

Encyclopaedia of occupational safety and health (PDF) - 4th ed., V. 3, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, 1998. [Available for purchase from the ILO Bookshop only: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/booksoh.htm]

Improving Safety and Health in Mines: A long and winding road? (PDF) - Norman Jennings. Prepared for the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) Project.

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (PDF) - International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 124 [http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C124]

Safety and health in opencast mines: An ILO code of practice / La sécurité et la santé dans les mines à ciel ouvert / Seguridad y salud en minas a cielo abierto (English PDF | French PDF | Spanish PDF) - International Labour Office, Geneva, 1991.

Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (PDF) - International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 176 [http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C176] and its accompanying Recommendation No. 183 (PDF) - 1995.

Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (PDF) - International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 45 [http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C045]

Worker and Community Health Impacts Related to Mining Operations Internationally: A Rapid Review of the Literature (PDF) - Carolyn Stephens and Mike Ahern. Prepared for the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) Project.

Worker and Community Health and Safety Informal Experts Meeting Report (PDF) - 10 September 2001, London, UK. Hosted by MMSD and LSHTM. MMSD Workshop.

 

HIV / AIDS

The effect of HIV/AIDS on the mining and minerals sector and recommendations for management of the pandemic in alignment with sustainable development in the mining and minerals sector (Word) - Dr Ralph Elias and DR Ian Taylor, With contributions by Vasna Ramasar, Professor Gina Buijs and Aaron Holdway. MMSD Southern Africa Regional Group Final Report.

An ILO code of practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work / VIH/SIDA y el mundo del trabajo / Le VIH/SIDA et le monde du travail (English PDF | French PDF | Spanish PDF) - International Labour Office, Geneva, 2001.

 

Working Time

The evolution of employment, working time and training in the mining industry: Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on the Evolution of Employment, Working Time and Training in the Mining Industry (English PDF | French PDF | Spanish PDF) - International Labour Office, Geneva, October 2002.

Hours of Work (Coal Mines) Convention (Revised), 1935 (PDF) - International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 46 - (Withdrawn) [http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C046]

Working time arrangements in the Australian mining industry: Trends and implications with particular reference to occupational safety and health (PDF) - Karthryn Heiler, Richard Pickersgill and Chris Briggs, Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, International Labour Organisation (ILO) WP.162, Geneva, 2000.

 

Minimum Age

Minimum Age (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (PDF) - International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 12 [http://ilolex.ilo.ch:1567/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C123]

 

 

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