Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention, 1977 (No. 148) - Azerbaijan (Ratification: 1992)

1. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its latest report, in particular the information regarding the application of Article 5, paragraph 4, of the Convention.

2. Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Collaboration between two or more employers. The Committee requested the Government in its previous comments to supply copies of or extracts from contracts on common works concluded by employers, undertaking simultaneously, activities at one workplace which contain mutual duties, as well as the separate responsibilities of each employer established in the Labour Code. While the Government’s report contains no new information or documents requested, the Committee reiterates its request and would be grateful if the Government would provide with its next report examples of such contracts with clauses establishing the employers’ duty to collaborate in order to comply with the prescribed measures.

3. Article 8, paragraph 3. Procedures by which the established criteria and exposure limits are regularly reviewed. The Committee notes that the State Agency on Standardization set up through Presidential Decree of 27 December 2001 has started to draw up national standards and rules in the area of occupational safety and health. The Committee hopes that this will lead to the criteria for determining the hazards to exposure to air pollution, noise and vibration in the working environment and specific exposure limits on the basis of these criteria being established and regularly supplemented and revised in the light of current national and international knowledge and data, taking into account any increase in occupational hazards resulting from simultaneous exposure to several harmful factors at the workplace. The Government is requested to keep the Committee informed of any progress achieved and to supply a copy of the relevant provision adopted in this respect.