Thursday, November 06, 2008
[IWS] WHO: ASIAN PACIFIC NEWSLETTER on OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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World Health Organizaiton (WHO)
Asian Pacific Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/asianewslet/en/
The newsletter is published since 1997 by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
OLDER Issues at
http://www.ttl.fi/Internet/English/Information/Electronic+journals/Asian-Pacific+Newsletter/
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume 15, number 2, September 2008
OSH - A Societal Responsibility
http://www.ttl.fi/NR/rdonlyres/01710FEE-4BCF-4D59-8764-3411DC946F9B/0/Asiannewsletter208.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Contents
27 Editorial
Sameera Al-Tuwaijri, ILO
28 Time for a new global response to global safety and health challenges
Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, ISSA
29 XVIII World Congress and Summit on Safety and Health at Work
Suvi Lehtinen, Finland
30 Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work
31 Occupational health and safety A societal responsibility
Habibullah Saiyed, Sattar Yoosuf, WHO
33 Occupational health and safety are key elements of corporate social responsibility at China National Offshore Oil Corporation
Song Lisong, P.R. China
36 Occupational safety and health as a contribution to a sustainable socio-economic development in China
Martin Braun, Germany
38 News from Nepal
Paras K. Pokharel, Prajjwal Raut, Nepal
Erkki Kähkönen, Finland
40 Lung function abnormalities among workers exposed in welding operations
Chandrasekharan Nair Kesavachandran, Vipin Bihari,
India
42 Respiratory morbidity among miners in Rajasthan state Report of a pilot study
Debasis Chatterjee, Sarang Dhatrak, Subroto Nandi,
B. B. Mandal, Sachin Narwadiya, India
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
World Health Organizaiton (WHO)
Asian Pacific Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety
http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/asianewslet/en/
The newsletter is published since 1997 by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
OLDER Issues at
http://www.ttl.fi/Internet/English/Information/Electronic+journals/Asian-Pacific+Newsletter/
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume 15, number 2, September 2008
OSH - A Societal Responsibility
http://www.ttl.fi/NR/rdonlyres/01710FEE-4BCF-4D59-8764-3411DC946F9B/0/Asiannewsletter208.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Contents
27 Editorial
Sameera Al-Tuwaijri, ILO
28 Time for a new global response to global safety and health challenges
Hans-Horst Konkolewsky, ISSA
29 XVIII World Congress and Summit on Safety and Health at Work
Suvi Lehtinen, Finland
30 Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work
31 Occupational health and safety A societal responsibility
Habibullah Saiyed, Sattar Yoosuf, WHO
33 Occupational health and safety are key elements of corporate social responsibility at China National Offshore Oil Corporation
Song Lisong, P.R. China
36 Occupational safety and health as a contribution to a sustainable socio-economic development in China
Martin Braun, Germany
38 News from Nepal
Paras K. Pokharel, Prajjwal Raut, Nepal
Erkki Kähkönen, Finland
40 Lung function abnormalities among workers exposed in welding operations
Chandrasekharan Nair Kesavachandran, Vipin Bihari,
India
42 Respiratory morbidity among miners in Rajasthan state Report of a pilot study
Debasis Chatterjee, Sarang Dhatrak, Subroto Nandi,
B. B. Mandal, Sachin Narwadiya, India
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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