Safety, health and working conditions in the transfer of technology to developing countries

Code of practice | 01 January 1988
The objectives of this code are: to ensure the appropriate design, proper installation and safe operation and use of new equipment, processes, projects and related products being transferred to developing countries; to provide the means of analysing, from the standpoint of safety and health and conditions of work, existing technologies imported by developing countries and of modifying them to remove the hazards discovered by the analyses; to provide guidance in the setting up of administrative, legal and educational frameworks within which preventive and remedial measures can be implemented.