Co-benefits to health of climate change mitigation: occupational health
- Abstract
This document seeks to anticipate green technologies’ consequences for occupational health and safety, including hazards or risks they may present. The goal is to remove impediments to the dissemination and adoption of green technologies and to reduce avoidable risks for workers. This document identifies remediable hazards and manageable risks as well as the strategies to manage them so green technologies can be implemented without compromising worker health.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Date
- 2011
- Series Title
- Health in the green economy
- Institution
- Public Health & Environment Department, Health Security & Environment Cluster, World Health Organization
- Organization Type
- Other gov
- Solution
- Green jobs
- Other
- Co-benefits/co-harms