Occupational safety and health: A key to sustainable mining
Article from: OGEL 3 (2005), in Health & Safety
Abstract
An increasingly global mining industry employing fewer, more highly skilled, workers, with new work methods must address occupational safety and health (OSH) issues, whether through international standards or by applying lessons learnt from one mine site at another if mining is to be sustainable, with zero accidents and the elimination of occupational diseases. The range of international instruments developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) - from Conventions to guidelines - provides a verifiable level playing field on which to improve OSH in a structured and ...