Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974 (No. 139) - Japan (Ratification: 1977)

Other comments on C139

Observation

2011

Direct Request

2015
2011

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Further to its observation the Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the following points.

Article 3 of the Convention. Establishment of an appropriate system of records. The Committee notes with interest that the Ordinance on Prevention of Hazards due to Asbestos has been amended by extending from 30 to 40 years the required time period for retaining records of operations of workers handling asbestos and/or products containing asbestos. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on relevant laws and regulations giving effect to the Convention in this respect.

Part IV of the report form. Practical application. Article 6(c). Supervision of the application of the Convention through inspection. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government that, as of 31 March 2010, there were 321 labour standards inspection offices employing 3,949 labour standards inspectors and 337 industrial health specialists. It also notes the observations by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (JTUC–RENGO) that, under its policy to halve the annual recruitment of government officials, the Government drastically reduced successful applicants in the recruitment examination for labour standard inspectors in the fiscal year of 2010 to 177 persons from 216 in the previous fiscal year. The Committee also notes the statistical information provided by the Government regarding inspections carried out 2005–09 which indicate a downward trend both in the number of regular inspections carried out and in the number of cases of violations. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the impact of the developments referred to by JTUC–RENGO on the supervision carried out on the application of the Convention; and to continue to provide statistical information regarding the application of the Convention in practice.