Global Occupational Safety and Health Management Handbook

This book was written with the belief that everyone globally has the right to a safe and healthy workplace. An 8-year old carrying bricks in the mid-day sun in Nepal, a pharmaceutical business executive on assignment in Bangladesh, or a mother polishing stone in her home in Tanzania; each has a fundamental right to a workplace free from risk of injury, illness, and death.

Global Occupational Safety and Health Management Handbook is a broad presentation and discussion of the issues and obstacles facing the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) profession today in providing safe workplaces globally. Readers can use this book to find resources to assist in the development of their programs and to become informed about the basic structures of international OSH development and governance. Readers can also rely on this book to become more aware of global OSH issues and problems that they may be personally or professionally willing and able to help address. Seasoned OSH professionals can expect to learn about new ways to look at complicated and controversial topics. Young professionals and students can read this book to better understand the important global OSH interrelationships and challenges of the future.

• Serves as a one-stop resource for information on important international safety and health topics and issues
• Provides detailed information about international OSH tripartite, nongovernmental, and professional organizations
• Describes the various global OSH educational and professional development needs, and international approaches to expanding capacity and awareness of the profession
• Discusses controversial international OSH working conditions and explains their global impacts

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction to Global Occupational Safety and Health
Chapter 2 : Intergovernmental Occupational Safety and Health Organizations
Chapter 3 : Nongovernmental International Occupational Safety and Health Professional Organizations
Chapter 4 : Cultural Issues in International Occupational Safety and Health
Chapter 5 : Risk Assessment Global Perspectives
Chapter 6 : Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
Chapter 7 : Benchmarking in International Safety and Health
Chapter 8 : International Reporting of Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities
Chapter 9 : Introduction to Global Occupational Safety and Health Education and Training
Chapter 10 : Credentialing Occupational Hygiene
Chapter 11 : Regional and National Occupational Safety and Health Profiles
Chapter 12 : Global Issues and Aspects of the Disposal and Recycling of Electronics
Chapter 13 : Global Burden and Aspects of Occupational Cancer
Chapter 14 : Migrant Worker Occupational Safety and Health
Chapter 15 : Child Labor
Chapter 16 : Modern Slavery and Occupational Health
Chapter 17 : Occupational Health and Informal Work
Chapter 18 : Travel Safety and Security for the Global Worker

Index