Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters which were raised in its previous direct request.

The Committee noted the information supplied by the Government in its report received in 1989.

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee noted that the Government had still not given effect to its suggestion to extend the application of Order No. 902 of 20 May 1960 to all work involving the employment of young persons in underground work, in mines as well as in quarries. Indeed, the Committee noted that this Order, which relates only to work likely to provoke silicosis, contained provisions corresponding to those of Article 3, paragraph 2, and Article 4, paragraphs 4 and 5, of the Convention. The Committee recalled that these provisions concern respectively the necessity to undergo an X-ray film of the lungs on the occasion of the initial medical examination on recruitment and also, if necessary, on the occasion of subsequent re-examinations, and the necessity for the employer to keep a record containing, in particular, a certificate of fitness for employment, among other elements, which must be made available to inspectors and workers' representatives. Extending the application of Order No. 902 would make it possible to broaden the effect given to the above provisions of the Convention while awaiting the planned revision by the Government of Order No. 2806 on the organisation of occupational medical services.

The Committee trusts that the Government will re-examine the situation as regards its law and practice in the light of the above and that the next report will contain appropriate information on the measures that have been taken to give full effect to the Convention.