ILO examines impact of technology on worker safety and health.
Fifteen safety and health experts at a special meeting held by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, concluded that space-age technologies can improve worker safety and health if their ramifications are considered before implementation. Participants from the United Stat...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 108; pp. 46 - 48 |
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US Department of Labor
August 1985
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