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Occupational safety and health recommendation 164
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Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety
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ILO Encyclopaedia of occupational health and safety
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Chemicals convention 170
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Chemicals recommendation 177
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Code of practice – safety in the use of chemicals at work
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Code of practice – safety and health in construction
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OSH Series 70 - Radiation protection convention 115
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Radiation protection recommendation 114
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OSH Series 73
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Radiation protection of workers
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Code of practice for radiation protection of workers
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Code of practice – protection of workers against noise and vibration in the working
environment
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Code of practice – safety and health in construction
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Prevention of major industrial accidents convention 174
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Prevention of major industrial accidents recommendation 181
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OSH Series 63Relationship to UK NOS standards
All of the above can be found available through web searches and we would encourage
candidates to make themselves aware of these.
History of Health and Safety Legislation:
The industrial revolution changed the country from a rural economy to one based on
industry. New factories sprang up all over the country and with them new dangers.
Generally, the new factory owners were driven by profit and not the well-being of their
workers. It soon became apparent that safe working conditions would only be
established by legislation.
As the industrial age progressed and more people began to work in factories and mills
with their whirring machinery, the number of accidents rocketed. Agitation by workers
along-side demands by middle class 'public opinion' to introduce safer equipment and
work practices saw the central government increasingly involved in setting minimum
safety standards in various industries.
1802
saw the first piece of Health & Safety Legislation, an Act for the Preservation of the
Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in cotton mills and other
factories, this was passed particularly to safeguard young people in textile mills.
This was the first of a large amount of legislation designed to protect people at work. In
most cases laws were introduced to deal with a particular problem and so the
regulations became very specific. Much of this legislation is still in force but is only of
very limited use.
In an attempt to provide a comprehensive code applicable to all types of industry the
Factories Act was introduced. Amendments were made throughout the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries culminating in the Factories Act 1961; many of the provisions in
this Act are still in force.
