Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

1. Content of the annual inspection report. The Committee takes note of the annual inspection reports for 1999 and 2000 containing detailed information on the activities of the inspection services and their results. It notes with satisfaction the disaggregated figures for: workers covered, by gender, and indicating the proportion of young persons, apprentices and persons with disabilities; inspections by sector, type of inspection and size of enterprise; violations reported according to type and to area of labour law; results of inspections by type of action taken (notices served on employees and reports submitted to the courts); employment accidents by region, branch of activity and type of injury together with an analysis of the change in the situation regarding work fatalities in recent years; cases of occupational disease according to type of disease and branch of activity.

2. Quantitative and qualitative reinforcement of human resources. The Committee also welcomes the substantial increase in the number of labour inspectors between 1999 and 2000, and for the same period the implementation of training programmes for the advancement of labour inspectors in their career and the holding of ad hoc training sessions, some of which addressed the organization of prevention in construction sites and public works, international occupational health and safety conventions and the labour inspector’s role in promoting social dialogue.

The Committee is addressing a request on certain points directly to the Government.