Health, Safety and Environment - International Labour Organization

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe IUF would like to acknowledge:the financial contribution provided by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) towardsthe development of these Manuals. In particular, assistance from the ILO Bureau forWorkers’ Activities, especially Beth Goodson and Luc Demaretthe International Labour Office for permission to modify extracts and use the diagrams fromthe ILO CD Rom: Your health and safety at work – instructor’s guide, for use in Manual 1Yahya Msangi, Tanzania Plantation and Agricultural Workers (TPAWU – TANZANIA);Andrews Tagoe and Samuel Brewu, General Agricultural Workers Union of TUC (GAWU-TUC– GHANA); Omara Amuko, National Union of Plantation & Agricultural Workers (NUPAW –UGANDA); Christopher Musambwa, National Union of Co-operative Movement and AlliedWorkers (NUCMAW – UGANDA); Hella Alikuru, Regional Coordinator, IUF Africa RegionalOffice; Sue Longley, IUF Agricultural Workers Trade Group Coordinator; Sven-ErikPettersson and Ingemar Gidenstam, SLF, Sweden; and Jesper Lund Larsen, SID, Denmarkwho all contributed to and commented upon various drafts of this Manualtrade union participants on numerous pilot courses in Tanzania; Uganda; Ghana; andMalawi who worked with activities and resources from the draft Manuals and commentedupon themthe authors of the Pesticide Handbook – Peter Hurst, Alastair Hay and Nigel Dudley – fortheir permission to use material from the Handbook for Manual 5 on pesticidesPeter Hurst, IUF HS&E co-ordinator and Peter Kirby, trade union health and safety educator,Labour and Society International, who wrote these Manuals on behalf of the IUF and ILOxivHealth, Safety and EnvironmentA Series of Trade Union EducationManuals for Agricultural Workers