Transport equipment manufacturing sector
Employers and workers that build, repair and recycle the vehicles used to transport people and goods around the globe face unique challenges.
The future of work in the automotive industry is increasingly uncertain. Massive investments in skills and lifelong learning are needed as part of broader efforts to ensure a just transition.
Meanwhile, the ILO continues to promote the right to a safe and healthy working environment for shipbuilding, repair and recycling workers through the implementation of the Code of Practice on safety and health in shipbuilding and ship repair and the Guidelines on safety and health in shipbreaking.
Code of practice on safety and health in shipbuilding and ship repair
The purpose of this code is to provide practical guidance for the use of all those, both in the public and private sectors, who have obligations, responsibilities, duties and rights regarding safety and health in shipbuilding and ship repair.
Safety and health in shipbreaking: Guidelines for Asian countries and Turkey
These guidelines are the first of their kind to provide assistance to ensure safe work in shipbreaking within the framework of the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. In so doing they provide advice on the transformation of a mainly informal economy activity into a more formal organized one.
Resources
Project
Skills Development and Responsible Business Conduct for Transition
Report
Charging ahead: The future of work in the Portuguese automotive sector
Working paper
Digital manufacturing revolutions as political projects and hypes: evidences from the auto sector