Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

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

1. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report.

2. Article 3 of the Convention. Maximum weight of a load transported by an adult worker. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes that there is no provision establishing the maximum weight of a load transported by an adult worker and that the Government has called on the Occupational Health Council, a body under the responsibility of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, to take the necessary action to regulate the maximum weight that may be transported by an adult worker. The Committee trusts that the above action will be taken in the near future and requests the Government to provide information on any progress achieved in this respect.

3. Part V of the report form. Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes that, according to the Government’s report, the competent authorities do not keep registers of inspection reports and that the Government retains the hope that in the near future it will be in a position to provide statistical data on the application of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the Government’s next report will contain information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice in the country including, 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.