Workers’ Health and Safety

World at work: Brazilian ragpickers

Promoting Women Workers’ Rights in African Horticulture: Overview of research into conditions on horticulture farms in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda

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Social Protection for Home-Based Women Workers in South Asia: Learning from Action and Research

This action research project has been carried out by Home Net South Asia with research inputs from the Institute of Social Studies Trust. ...

Gathering Occupational Health Data from Informal Workers: The Brazilian Experience

Abstract: This study describes how occupational health data have been gathered by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) to provide morbidity...

From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan Labour Force

Occupational Injury in Rural Bangladesh: Data Gathering Using Household Survey

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Report of the Working Group on Occupational Safety and Health for the 12th Five Year Plan, 2012-2017

Neglect of Sewage Workers: Concerns about the New Act

The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 does not give the same rights to those who manually...

Participatory Training to Improve Safety and Health in Small Construction Sites in Some Countries in Asia: Development and Application of the WISCON Training Program

Abstract: A participatory training program, Work Improvement in Small Construction Sites, was developed to provide practical support measures...

Help Wanted: Abuses Against Female Domestic Workers in Indonesia and Malaysia