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Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - Algeria (RATIFICATION: 1962)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation, which read as follows:

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The Committee notes that the Government has sent information showing that the national legislation gives substantial effect to the Convention but without replying to the questions which have been posed by the Committee for many years. The Committee therefore requests the Government, in accordance with section 4 of the Inter-Ministerial Order of 10 April 1995, to include in the work programme of the Commission on Occupational Diseases, the question of bringing the schedules of occupational diseases into conformity with the Convention with respect to the following points:

• – the activities in which there is a risk of exposure to anthrax infection should also include the loading, unloading or transport of merchandise in general so as to cover workers (such as dockworkers) who have unknowingly transported merchandise that has been contaminated by anthrax spores;
• – the wording of the items pertaining to poisoning by arsenic (Schedules Nos 20 and 21), manifestations caused by the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series (Schedules Nos 3, 11, 12, 26 and 27), and poisoning by phosphorus and certain of its compounds (Schedules Nos 5 and 34) must, pursuant to the schedule annexed to the Convention, cover in general terms all the manifestations that may be caused by the above substances (such a wording would also make it possible to cover diseases which may be caused by the use of new products); and
• – the need for the wording of the various pathological manifestations enumerated in the left-hand column of the schedules of occupational diseases entitled “designation of diseases” to be of an indicative nature, in the same way as the wording for the corresponding types of work in the right-hand column of the schedules.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the near future.