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

Maximum Weight Convention, 1967 (No. 127) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1972)

The Committee takes note of the Government’s last report. It also notes the adoption of Act No. 2026 of 27 October 1999 on children and young persons.

The Committee draws the Government’s attention to the following points.

1. Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee notes the provisions contained in the Act on Children and Young Persons of 1999 in relation to the application of the Convention, the respective provisions of the Labour Code as well as the provisions of Decree No. 11074-TSS of 5 May 1980, section 2 of which prescribes maximum weight limits for loads that may be transported manually by women and young persons of either sex. It observes that neither the Labour Code nor Decree No. 11074-TSS of 5 May 1980 contain a provision specifying the maximum permissible weight that may be transported manually by one adult male worker. The Committee accordingly requests the Government, if there is no provision in law or regulations which provides for the maximum permissible weight limits of load for the manual transport by one single adult worker, to indicate the measures taken or contemplated to this end. In this respect, the Committee draws the Government’s attention to Paragraph 14 of Recommendation No. 128, which advocates a maximum weight of 55 kg for male adult workers.

2. The Committee further requests the Government to communicate, with its next report, information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice in the country, giving, for example, extracts from reports of the inspection services and, so far as such statistics are available, information concerning the number and nature of contraventions reported and the action taken on them, etc., as requested in Part V of the report form to the Convention.