Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

The Committee notes that the Government reports that, in spite of its efforts, it has no new developments to report regarding legislative effect given to the Convention. The Government indicates that, although it is aware that many workplaces in the country have dangerous pieces of machinery which often are not equipped with proper safety devices, the Convention is not well understood, inter alia, among the social partners, and the institutional structures required to supervise the official approvals of machinery are still not operational. The Government indicates, however, that the trade union structure in the country is under development, that the Government is currently engaged in a social dialogue in order to review the legal structures for tripartite consultations and that a national inventory of all dangerous machinery is under preparation with the assistance of the ILO which will pave the way for regulation in this area. Against this background the Committee hopes that the Government will soon be in a position to report on progress in its effort to give effect to this Convention and that its report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request which read as follows:

With reference to the information given in the Government’s previous report, the Committee notes that its comments appears to have been taken into account in the preparation of the draft Decree issuing regulations under the Labour Code. The Committee hopes that these regulations will be adopted in the near future and that their adoption will provide a basis for giving effect to the following Articles of the Convention: Articles 2 and 4 (prohibition of the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machinery without appropriate guards; formal designation of the persons upon whom the obligation to ensure the application of this prohibition rests), Article 10 (information and instructions to be given to workers) and Article 11 (prohibition upon using any machinery without the guards provided being in position or made inoperative). The Committee hopes that the Government will indicate the progress achieved in this respect in its next report.