CIS at a time of change. Gábor Sándi. 44 th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CIS NATIONAL, COLLABORATING AND REGIONAL CENTRES

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1 CIS at a time of change Gábor Sándi 44 th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CIS NATIONAL, COLLABORATING AND REGIONAL CENTRES CIS Headquarters, Geneva Sept. 2006

2 The Global Strategy on Occupational Safety and Health Safety and health culture with a focus on prevention A systems approach to occupational safety and health management

3 The ILO's Action Plan (1/2): Standard-setting Advocacy Technical assistance

4 The ILO's Action Plan (2/2): International collaboration Knowledge development, management and dissemination

5 The ILO's Global Strategy and Action Plan are defined by the report of the Committee on Occupational Safety and Health of the 91st (2003) International Labour Conference. The full text can be found on the Internet at: ilo.org/public/.org/public/english/standards/ standards/relm/ilc /ilc91/pdf pdf/pr pdf

6 The role of CIS: Support the ILO's action plan in knowledge management and international collaboration by: compiling databases and providing access to them; creating or commissioning and disseminating publications; providing an international meeting point for national institutions.

7 CIS Online Products CISDOC/CISILO: 65,300 bilingual records since 1974; 19,350 also have Spanish. The Virtual Bulletin: The 250 most recent additions to the database, presented exactly the same way the Bulletin used to do it, classified by type of document and subject. LEGOSH: Approx laws, regulations and directives from around the world. Indicates if repealed. Chemical exposure limits: Collection of links to 30 internet sites listing national and international chemical exposure limits. CISTHES: 15,000 terms. ILO Encyclopaedia: More than 1000 articles. OSH Glossary: 2600 OSH terms in 5 languages. IPCS Cards: 1500 cards on the properties of dangerous chemicals. Datasheets on Occupations: 50 online right now, more to follow. Other languages soon. OSH News: Trilingual innovation. OSH Institutions,, Directory of Educational & Training Opportunities: Plans for the future

8 The Virtual Bulletin - I

9 The Virtual Bulletin - II

10 The Virtual Bulletin - III

11 Chemical Exposure Limits - I

12 Chemical Exposure Limits - II

13 Publications The printed Bulletin is no more but... ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety: In the 3 official languages of the ILO - English, French, Spanish; also in Chinese, Japanese, Korean (only parts) and Russian... and now the SafeWork Bookshelf CD CIS Glossary of OSH terminology

14 International Chemical Safety Cards Compilation: Belgium Canada Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Poland Spain UK USA Translation: Brazil China Egypt India Indonesia Korea Malaysia Pakistan Portugal Russia Sri Lanka Tanzania Thailand Vietnam

15 An international meeting point: The CIS Centres Network

16 National Centre The institution best suited to providing CIS with national OSH documentation, and disseminating CIS documentation at the national level. Collaborating Centre An institution with a mandate like a National Centre, but limited in scope to a discipline, sector or geographical area. Regional Centre An institution, associated with a supra- national body, responsible for acquiring and disseminating OSH information, exchanging documentation with CIS like a National or Collaborating Centre.

17 New National Centre: Algeria Institut national de la prévention des risques professionnels (INPRP) Route nationale no Mac Style - Chéraga Alger Tel.: : (+213) Fax: : (+213) inprp153@hotmail.com

18 New Collaborating Centre: Bangladesh Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation 27/11/3-A A (2nd Floor), Topkhana Road G.P.O. Box # 2696 Dhaka Tel.: : (+880) (mobile) Fax: : (+880) WWW: oshebd.org oshe@agni agni.com

19 New Collaborating Centre: India Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (Deemed University) 1, Ramachandra Nagar, Porur Tamil Nadu CHENNAI WWW: srmc-ehe.org.in vsnl.net

20 New Collaborating Centre: Portugal Inspecçã ção-geral do Trabalho (IGT) Praça de Alvalade,, LISBOA Tel.: : (+351) (+ 351) Fax: : (+351) WWW: igt.gov.pt igt@igt igt.gov.pt nucleo.com.div@.com.div@igt.gov.pt

21 New Regional (until now Collaborating) Centre: Zimbabwe African Regional Labour Administration Centre (ARLAC) CIS Unit P.O. Box 6097 HARARE Tel.: : (+263 4) Fax: : (+263 4) WWW: africaonline.co..co.zw/arlac arlac@arlac arlac.org..org.zw nyambari@arlac arlac.org..org.zw

22 Evolution 1959: 11 Centres 2005: 140+ Centres

23 CIS Centres: What they are Non-gov. Academic Other Gov. Health Genl. Health Inst. Inspectorate Social Security Labour Inst. Labour Genl.

24 CIS Centres: Where they are Africa Americas E. Asia-Pacific Europe W. Asia S. Asia

25 The future Integrate the ILO Encyclopaedia further with our database work Further develop Internet and off-line electronic resources See what possibilities are for sales of publications and services Continue our annual Centres meetings and seek support for regional ones Intensify interaction with Centres Seek funding for reinforcement of the Centres network following the end of our FINNIDA projects

26 We are not alone - other OSH networks Asian-Pacific Regional Network on Occu-pational Safety and Health Information - region/asro/bangkok/asiaosh/index.htm ASEAN-OSHNET - (link does not work, it seems) European Agency for Safety and Health at Work - Russian OSH network - Latin American network - cepis.ops- oms.org

27 The most important URL:

28 Now it s your turn!