Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Maximum Weight Convention, 1967 (No. 127) - Algeria (Ratification: 1969)

In its previous comments, the Committee drew the Government's attention to the absence of legislation limiting the weight of loads to be manually transported by adult males and the absence of provisions limiting the weight of loads to be transported manually by women and children. No copies of provisions on these subjects have been provided by the Government despite the fact that it has referred on several occasions to company or works agreements, circulars and service notes regulating such matters at the level of individual firms and sectors of activity.

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government in its last report, on the procedure which is now under way for the enactment of two draft Decrees issued under Act No. 88-07 of 26 January 1988 on occupational health, safety and medicine. According to the Government's report, copies of the two Decrees - one dealing with general prescriptions on protection of health and safety at the workplace and the other with the organisation of occupational medicine - will be sent as soon as they are published. The Committee reiterates the hope that the above drafts will ensure the application of the provisions of the Convention. It asks the Government to provide a copy of the texts once they have been adopted.