Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Safety Provisions (Building) Convention, 1937 (No. 62) - Egypt (Ratification: 1982)

With reference to its observation, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken to give effect to the following provisions of the Convention.

1. Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Convention. In its previous comments, Committee noted that the national regulations contain on provision requiring employers to bring to the notice of all persons concerned - in a manner approved by the competent authority - the laws or regulations ensuring the application of Parts II to IV of the Convention and of the model code annexed to the Safety Provisions (Building) Recommendation, 1937 (No. 53), which supplements the Convention. It notes that Part III on ensuring labour environment security of the new Labour Code only provides for measures aiming at generally ensuring safety and health at work. The Committee urges the Government to take in the near future the necessary measures to give full effect in law and in practice to this abovementioned Article of the Convention.

2. The Committee refers to its previous comments concerning Article 7 (the construction of suitable scaffolds by competent workers under the supervision of a competent and responsible person, of sound material and so constructed that no part thereof can be displaced in consequence of normal use; the periodic inspection of scaffolds and the prohibition of overloading; ensuring the strength and stability of scaffolds before authorizing their use by workers and before installing lifting gear), Article 8, paragraphs 1(a) and 2(a) (the construction of working platforms, gangways and stairways which are closely bordered and so constructed that no part thereof can sag unduly or unequally), Article 14, paragraph 3 (clear indication of the safe working load of a hoisting machine having a variable safe working load), and Article 15, paragraphs 2 and 3 (adequate precautions to reduce to a minimum the risk of the accidental descent of the load and of any part of a suspended load becoming accidentally displaced). The Committee recalls that it had expressed the hope that the revision of labour legislation would lead to the adoption of texts that would give full effect to these provisions of the Convention. The Committee therefore hopes that, as provided in article 213 of the Labour Code, the concerned minister shall issue a decree establishing safety standards and the necessary conditions and precautions to prevent the risks defined in the Labour Code. The Committee hopes that this decree will be adopted in the near future and will contain the necessary provisions to give effect to the provisions of the Convention referred to in this paragraph.