[EBOOK] Health, Safety and Environment: A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers, Written by Peter Hurst and Peter Kirby, International Labour Organization

About this series of Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) Manuals
The IUF has developed this series of Manuals to help union affiliates representing agricultural workers to tackle health, safety and environmental (HS&E) problems, through their training programmes.

Aims of these Manuals 

These Manuals are designed to help union educators to:

•    address the key HS&E concerns of workers and their representatives

•    provide essential information on HS&E to workers and their representatives

•    help workers and their representatives to tackle HS&E issues

•    plan and run educational activities with trade unions

•    help trade unions build their organisational capacity on HS&E

•    promote ratification of ILO Convention No. 184 on Safety and Health in Agriculture
A series of Manuals

This series of Manuals comprises:

•    Manual 1: An educator’s guide

•    Manual 2: HS&E for “grassroots” members

•    Manual 3: HS&E for worker HS&E representatives (see definition below)

•    Manual 4: HS&E Fact Sheets

•    Manual 5: Pesticides and Health, Safety and the Environment (HS&E)

•    Manual 6: ILO Convention No. 184 on Safety and Health in Agriculture 2001

The Table of Contents on pages ix to xii shows the different subjects covered. Educators and participants should select which are their priorities. See Manual 1, page 1 for an explanation of the common format used in all the Manuals.

Additional resources and ideas
These Manuals contain basic resources and materials. However:

•    participants on workshops should be encouraged to bring in relevant documents from their workplace and union

•    educators should ensure that other essential resources are provided. For example, HS&E laws in their own country; HS&E resources supplied by the IUF; ILO Convention No 184 on Safety and Health in Agriculture 2001

•    participants and educators will contribute a wealth of their own ideas and experience to each educational activity
Who are these Manuals for?

We hope that these Manuals will have the widest possible use. However, they are primarily targeted at workers who are in some form of wage/employment relationship.

Trade union educators can use these Manuals for:

•    study circles with “grassroots” groups of union members and workers

•    worker HS&E representatives (see definition on page 5)

•    branch/regional/national union officials

•    full and part time union officials

•    trade union policy makers on HS&E issues

•    joint training with NGO’s and other bodies on issues of common interest

Whilst primarily aimed at waged agricultural workers, these Manuals will also be useful for:

•    wage-dependent small farmers and other categories of the agricultural working population

•    public interest non governmental organisations (NGOs) working on HS&E related issues in agriculture

A working definition of agriculture
The term agriculture covers agricultural and forestry activities carried out in agricultural undertakings including crop production, forestry activities, animal husbandry and insect raising, the primary processing of agricultural and animal products by or on behalf of the operator of the undertaking as well as the use and maintenance of machinery, equipment, appliances, tools, and agricultural installations, including any process, storage, operation or transportation in an agricultural undertaking, which are directly related to agricultural production.

[EBOOK] Health, Safety and Environment: A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers, Written by Peter Hurst and Peter Kirby, International Labour Organization

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