Based on the experiences in home worker training in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Thailand carried out within the framework of the ILO's Informal Economy, Poverty and Employment Project. Provides home workers with practical ideas on how to improve their safety, health and working conditions.

Reports on child labour, working conditions and occupational safety and health in informal gold mining.

Includes comments on the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167).

Provides a basis for understanding the nature of workplace violence and suggests ways of preventing. Focuses on those data, experiences and publications which best help to explain and interpret the roots of violence at work, and to promote proactive initiatives.