Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

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

The Committee notes the Government’s report, and in particular the information that the Advisory Technical Committee on Occupational Safety and Health has not yet been established due to the economic and financial problems that were already mentioned in the Government’s previous report, thus delaying the application of paragraph 2 of section 132 of the Labour Code which, after obtaining the views of the Technical Committee, aims at prohibiting the use of certain machines or parts of machines considered dangerous.

The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains no reply to its previous comments. It hopes that the next report will include full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

 The Committee notes that the Government’s report does not reply to its previous comments concerning the absence to date of measures that ensure the application of Articles 2 and 4 of the Convention (prohibition of the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machines which must be guarded; formal designation of the persons on whom rests the obligation to apply this prohibition), Article 10 (information and instructions to be given to workers) and Article 11 (prohibition on using a machine without the protective guards being in position and operative). The Committee hopes that the adoption of the above-cited safety and health rules will permit the application of these Articles of the Convention.

The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to take the necessary measures in the very near future.