Theme: Workers’ Health and Safety

Better OHS for Market Traders and Street Vendors in Accra, Ghana

This is a summary of a case study by Tony Dzidzinyo Dogbe and Suki Annan.

Minor Psychiatric Disorders Among Brazilian Ragpickers: A Cross-Sectional Study

Safety and Health of Urban Informal Sector Workers

Occupational Health & Safety for Market and Street Traders in Accra and Takoradi, Ghana

The Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: Barriers to Access for Informal Workers

Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is an innovative attempt to extend social protection to informal workers, and, as such, it...

The Place of Informal Workers and the Informal Economy in Approaches to Social Protection

Increasing numbers of workers across the world experience eroding work related to social protection and those who ‘do’ social policy see...

Swept Under the Rug: Abuses Against Domestic Workers Throughout the World

Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measures in Chinese factories

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Saúde & Segurança Ocupacional para Comerciantes e Vendedores Ambulantes em Acra e Takoradi, Gana

The Occupational Health of Waste Pickers in Pune: KKPKP and SWaCH Members Push for Health Rights

This report from the union of waste pickers, KKPKP, in Pune, India details the interventions of the union to improve the health of their...