ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the ILO Conventions on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and indicate how they have set out to influence national legal frameworks. It will show how, increasingly, the national legal frameworks are being moulded to the ILO vision and the chapter has a summary, as at September 2009, of the main general OSH laws in over 20 countries across the world, taken from all continents.
