SHIPBREAKING – ILO
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLSHIPBREAKING, a ready source of scrap steel, is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. What is more, agreed a recent meeting of experts from the International Metalworkers Federation, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and others, it need not be so deadly. They agreed global health and safety guidelines for the industry, mainly based in cheap labour countries such as China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey. Here, rigid health and safety codes are unknown. In Bangladesh, for example, the ILO has written about how ...
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