Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Guinea (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes Ordinance No. 003/PRG/SGG/88 of 28 January 1988, issuing the Labour Code. It would be grateful if the Government would supply additional information in its next report on the following points:

1. Under section 406 of the Labour Code, the regulations issued under the 1960 Labour Code remain in force for all their provisions which are not contrary to the present Labour Code. Please indicate whether Order No. 5253GTLS-AOF dated 19 July 1954, issued under the Overseas Labour Code, remains in force.

2. Article 11 of the Convention. Section 170 of the Code provides that employees shall use health and safety devices properly and shall refrain from removing them or modifying them without the employer's permission. As this Article of the Convention forbids a worker to be required to use any machinery without the guards provided being in position or to make inoperative the guards provided, please indicate whether section 170 of the Code permits an employer to authorise a worker to remove or modify a guard when this would be contrary to his safety, or to request him to do so.