Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

The Committee notes with interest the comprehensive report submitted by the Government including detailed information on procedures by which established criteria and exposure limits are regularly reviewed giving effect to Article 8(3) of the Convention.

Article 6(2) of the Convention. Collaboration between two or more employers. The Committee notes that the detailed information provided by the Government does not include information regarding the effect given to the present provision of the Convention which prescribes that whenever two or more employers undertake activities simultaneously at one workplace, they shall have the duty to collaborate in order to comply with the prescribed measures, without prejudice to the responsibility of each employer for the health and safety of their employees, and that in appropriate circumstances, the competent authority shall prescribe general procedures for this collaboration. The Committee notes that according to information provided in previous reports, such cooperation is apparently regulated in contracts on common works concluded by employers, undertaken simultaneously. The Committee therefore reiterates its request that the Government provide information on measures taken in law and in practice in giving full effect to the provision of the Convention including, as appropriate, copies of or extracts from contracts on common works concluded by employers, undertaken simultaneously, activities at one workplace with clauses establishing the employers’ duty to collaborate in order to comply with the prescribed measures.

Part IV of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee requests the Government to provide a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in the country, including, for instance, extracts from the reports of the inspection services, and if such statistics are available, information on the number of workers covered by the relevant legislation and other measures on the number and nature of contraventions reported, etc.