Healthy and Safe Working Environment

This note provides guidance to investors and governments on good practice in occupational health and safety policies, programs, procedures and processes, a matter of critical importance given thathalf the world’s working population is in agricultur...

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Main Authors: UNCTAD, World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/750861521090330759/Healthy-and-safe-working-environment
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29475
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spelling okr-10986-294752021-05-25T10:54:34Z Healthy and Safe Working Environment UNCTAD World Bank SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT LABOR LAW REGULATORY OVERSIGHT RISK ASSESSMENT TRAINING ZERO TOLERANCE INVESTMENT CONTRACT This note provides guidance to investors and governments on good practice in occupational health and safety policies, programs, procedures and processes, a matter of critical importance given thathalf the world’s working population is in agriculture—one of the three most hazardous sectors, with an estimated 170,000 fatalities per year (ILO). To be successful, an agribusiness operationmust rely heavily not only on the skills and competencies of its employees but on their health and wellbeing, requiring an awareness of and adherence to acceptable occupational health and safety standards. 2018-03-19T14:21:55Z 2018-03-19T14:21:55Z 2018-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/750861521090330759/Healthy-and-safe-working-environment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29475 English Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 16; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT
SAFETY AND HEALTH
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
LABOR LAW
REGULATORY OVERSIGHT
RISK ASSESSMENT
TRAINING
ZERO TOLERANCE
INVESTMENT CONTRACT
spellingShingle SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT
SAFETY AND HEALTH
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT
LABOR LAW
REGULATORY OVERSIGHT
RISK ASSESSMENT
TRAINING
ZERO TOLERANCE
INVESTMENT CONTRACT
UNCTAD
World Bank
Healthy and Safe Working Environment
relation Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 16;
description This note provides guidance to investors and governments on good practice in occupational health and safety policies, programs, procedures and processes, a matter of critical importance given thathalf the world’s working population is in agriculture—one of the three most hazardous sectors, with an estimated 170,000 fatalities per year (ILO). To be successful, an agribusiness operationmust rely heavily not only on the skills and competencies of its employees but on their health and wellbeing, requiring an awareness of and adherence to acceptable occupational health and safety standards.
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World Bank
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World Bank
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title Healthy and Safe Working Environment
title_short Healthy and Safe Working Environment
title_full Healthy and Safe Working Environment
title_fullStr Healthy and Safe Working Environment
title_full_unstemmed Healthy and Safe Working Environment
title_sort healthy and safe working environment
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/750861521090330759/Healthy-and-safe-working-environment
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29475
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