Obadia Isaac
SafeWork Program, International Labor Office, 4 rte des Morillons, 1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland.
Toxicology. 2003 Aug 21;190(1-2):105-15. doi: 10.1016/s0300-483x(03)00200-2.
The ILO has been active in the area of safety in the use of chemicals at work since the year of its creation in 1919, including the development of international treaties and other technical instruments, the provision of technical assistance to its member States, and the development of chemical safety information systems. The two key ILO standards in this area are the Conventions on safety in the use of chemicals at work (No. 170, 1990), and the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents (No. 174, 1993). The ILO Programme on occupational safety, health and environment (Safe Work) is currently responsible for ILO chemical safety activities. In the past two decades, most of ILO work in this area has been carried out within the context of inter-agency collaboration frameworks linking the ILO, WHO, UNEP, FAO, UNIDO, UNITAR, and the OECD, including the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), the Inter-Organisation Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC), and the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS). Apart from the regular development, updating and dissemination of chemical safety information data bases such as the IPCS International Chemical Cards, the elaboration of a Globally harmonized system for the classification and labelling of Chemicals (GHS) has been the most outstanding achievement of this international collaboration on chemical safety.
自1919年成立以来，国际劳工组织一直活跃于工作场所化学品使用安全领域，包括制定国际条约和其他技术文书、向其成员国提供技术援助以及开发化学品安全信息系统。该领域国际劳工组织的两项关键标准是《工作场所化学品使用安全公约》（第170号，1990年）和《预防重大工业事故公约》（第174号，1993年）。国际劳工组织职业安全、健康与环境计划（安全工作）目前负责国际劳工组织的化学品安全活动。在过去二十年中，国际劳工组织在这一领域的大部分工作都是在机构间合作框架内开展的，这些框架将国际劳工组织、世界卫生组织、联合国环境规划署、联合国粮食及农业组织、联合国工业发展组织、联合国训练研究所和经济合作与发展组织联系起来，包括国际化学品安全方案（IPCS）、化学品健全管理组织间方案（IOMC）和国际化学品安全政府间论坛（IFCS）。除了定期开发、更新和传播化学品安全信息数据库，如国际化学品安全方案国际化学品卡片外，制定全球化学品统一分类和标签制度（GHS）一直是这一化学品安全国际合作最突出的成果。
