Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

The Committee notes the Government's report, the copies of legislative texts relating to safety and health at work and the annual reports for 1997 and 1998 on inspection activities in respect of safety and health at work. It requests the Government to supply further information on the following matters.

Article 3, paragraph 1(a), of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information concerning labour inspection structures and activities in the fields mentioned by this provision, other than safety and health at work, such as duration of work, salaries and the employment of children and young persons.

Article 5. Noting the changes in the number of inspectors on safety and health at work, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the number and distribution by sex of labour inspectors carrying out activities in all the fields mentioned above and to specify in what way effect is given to this Article which provides, where necessary, that special duties may be assigned to men and women inspectors.

Articles 21 (c) and (d). The Committee notes that the annual inspection reports communicated to the ILO do not contain statistics on the number of workplaces liable to inspection and the total number of workers employed there. It requests the Government to take the necessary steps for this information to be included in the next annual reports.