Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Ghana (Ratification: 1965)

1. The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s reports received in 2006 and 2007 do not contain any new information or any reply to its previous comments.

2. Articles 1 and 17 of the Convention. Scope of application. The Committee reminds the Government that, for more than 30 years, it has drawn the Government’s attention to the need to extend the legislation giving effect to the Convention to agriculture, forestry, road and rail transport and shipping. In its 1986 report, the Government indicated that it was due to submit the Committee’s observations to the tripartite National Advisory Committee on Labour so that it could examine them and take the necessary steps to give full effect to the provisions of the Convention. The Committee trusts that, in the context of the revision of the labour legislation launched with the adoption of the Labour Code in 2003, the Government will focus on the need to revise the legislation in the field of occupational  safety and health, especially in order to give effect to the Convention. The Committee urges the Government to take the necessary steps in the very near future to ensure the guarding of machinery in all sectors of economic activity, particularly agriculture, forestry, road and rail transport and shipping, and invites the Government to request assistance from the ILO in due course in order to ensure the effective application of the provisions of the Convention.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2008.]