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26 January, 2000Workers' handbook includes sections on hazardous work areas, occupational diseases, hazard control and environmental effects.
GENEVA: The International Metalworkers' Federation has published a workers' handbook on health and safety in the steel industry. The booklet, produced for the IMF by the Sheffield Occupational Health Project in the UK, has been designed to help safety representatives, workers' inspectors and steel and foundry workers improve working conditions in this industry, and provides guidance on the best standards of health and safety based on available knowledge and experience acquired from all over the world.
The 148-page pocket-size guide is divided into sections on hazardous work areas, occupational diseases, hazard control and environmental effects, with a glossary and index.
In a foreword to readers, the IMF's general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, states that "with the knowledge and technologies we have today, workers do not have to choose between having a job and risking life and limb. It is not only possible to have both - a job and a healthy life, but the failure by employers to ensure this is both morally and economically indefensible."
The handbook is intended to help steelworkers recognise the sources of the many different hazards they are likely to be exposed to in the course of their employment and be able to demand improvements in their health and safety provisions and conditions of work.
The 148-page pocket-size guide is divided into sections on hazardous work areas, occupational diseases, hazard control and environmental effects, with a glossary and index.
In a foreword to readers, the IMF's general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, states that "with the knowledge and technologies we have today, workers do not have to choose between having a job and risking life and limb. It is not only possible to have both - a job and a healthy life, but the failure by employers to ensure this is both morally and economically indefensible."
The handbook is intended to help steelworkers recognise the sources of the many different hazards they are likely to be exposed to in the course of their employment and be able to demand improvements in their health and safety provisions and conditions of work.