Occupational Safety and Health and Civil Engineering
ILO Codes of Practice
Safety and health in building and civil engineering work
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International Labour Office Geneva 1972
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1973
ILO publications can be obtained throughmajor booksellers orILO local offices in many countries, or direct from ILO Publications, International Labour
Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, The catalogue and list of booksellers and local offices will be sent free of charge from the above address.
Printed by ATAR S.A. - Geneva (Switzerland)
Preface
This Code of Practice has been. prepared in response to a wish expressed by the Building, Civil Engineering and Public
Works Committee of the International Labour Organisation at its Seventh Session (Geneva, May 1964). The Committeewhich is composed of representatives of governments, and of employers
and workers in the construction industrystated its belief that the Safety Provision (Building) Convention (No. 62) and the
Safety Provision (Building) Recommendation (No. 53) do not take adequate account of new methods of construction which
have come into use since these instruments were adopted by the
International Labour Conference in 1937. To remedy this situation, the Committee, in its Resolution (No. 69) concerning action by the Office relating to technological developments and to safety in the construction industry 1, unanimously called for the pre-
paration and publication of a Code of Practice on Safety in
Building and Civil Engineering. In the light of a wish which
the Committee expressed 2 on the same occasion for action by the Office relating to occupational health in the construction industry, it was decided that the present Code of Practice should also incorporate a number of provisions relating to occupational health in this industry.
The first draft of the present Code was prepared by the Office and was submitted, in 1968, for comments and observations to the 36 members of
Safety and health in building and civil engineering work
H
I I I II I I
I I II
44255
International Labour Office Geneva 1972
-
RECrTD
I
JA
1973
ILO publications can be obtained throughmajor booksellers orILO local offices in many countries, or direct from ILO Publications, International Labour
Office, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, The catalogue and list of booksellers and local offices will be sent free of charge from the above address.
Printed by ATAR S.A. - Geneva (Switzerland)
Preface
This Code of Practice has been. prepared in response to a wish expressed by the Building, Civil Engineering and Public
Works Committee of the International Labour Organisation at its Seventh Session (Geneva, May 1964). The Committeewhich is composed of representatives of governments, and of employers
and workers in the construction industrystated its belief that the Safety Provision (Building) Convention (No. 62) and the
Safety Provision (Building) Recommendation (No. 53) do not take adequate account of new methods of construction which
have come into use since these instruments were adopted by the
International Labour Conference in 1937. To remedy this situation, the Committee, in its Resolution (No. 69) concerning action by the Office relating to technological developments and to safety in the construction industry 1, unanimously called for the pre-
paration and publication of a Code of Practice on Safety in
Building and Civil Engineering. In the light of a wish which
the Committee expressed 2 on the same occasion for action by the Office relating to occupational health in the construction industry, it was decided that the present Code of Practice should also incorporate a number of provisions relating to occupational health in this industry.
The first draft of the present Code was prepared by the Office and was submitted, in 1968, for comments and observations to the 36 members of