Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes that the Government indicates in its last report that the National Assembly has adopted the Code of Labour Hygiene, Safety and the Work Environment, and that the pertinent regulatory texts are being prepared. The Committee hopes that these texts will give effect to the provisions of the Convention and, in particular, to Articles 2 and 4 which specify that the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machinery of which the dangerous parts specified in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 2 are without appropriate guards shall be prohibited. The obligation to apply these prohibitions rests on the vendor, the person letting out on hire or transferring the machinery in any other manner, or the exhibitor, and on the manufacturer when he sells machinery, lets it out on hire or exhibits it.

The Committee requests the Government to provide information on any progress made in this regard and to supply copies of the texts in question when adopted.