Preface

• Pages: III-IV

Preface

This Code of Practice has been. prepared in response to a

wish expressed by the Building, Civil Engineering and Public

Works Committee of the International Labour Organisation at

its Seventh Session (Geneva, May 1964). The Committeewhich

is composed of representatives of governments, and of employers

and workers in the construction industrystated its belief that

the Safety Provision (Building) Convention (No. 62) and the

Safety Provision (Building) Recommendation (No. 53) do not

take adequate account of new methods of construction which

have come into use since these instruments were adopted by the

International Labour Conference in 1937. To remedy this situa-

tion, the Committee, in its Resolution (No. 69) concerning action

by the Office relating to technological developments and to safety

in the construction industry 1, unanimously called for the pre-

paration and publication of a Code of Practice on Safety in

Building and Civil Engineering. In the light of a wish which

the Committee expressed 2 on the same occasion for action by

the Office relating to occupational health in the construction

industry, it was decided that the present Code of Practice should

also incorporate a number of provisions relating to occupational

health in this industry.

The first draft of the present Code was prepared by the Office

and was submitted, in 1968, for comments and observations to

the 36 members of the ILO Panel of Consultants on Occupa-

tional Safety and Health in Building, Civil Engineering and Public

Works. This Panelwhich was set up pursuant to another wish

expressed by the ILO Building, Civil Engineering and Public

Works Committee in its above-mentioned Resolution (No. 69)

concerning action by the Office relating to technological develop-

ments and to safety in the construction industryis composed

'ILO: Official Bulletin, Vol. XLVII, No. 3, July 1964, p. 232.

2 Ibid., p. 291.

III