Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Kuwait (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes the Government’s report, which reached the ILO in September 2009, and the statistical tables on inspection activities carried out in 2006 and their results, which were attached to the report.

Articles 5(a) and 21(e) of the Convention. Effective cooperation between the inspection services and the judicial authorities. Noting the Government’s commitment to adopting the measures recommended in the general observation of 2007 to promote such cooperation, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information in its next report on the measures adopted and their impact in practice, illustrated in so far as possible by statistical data.

Article 7. Training of inspection staff in relation to general conditions of work. According to the Government, the courses provided for labour inspectors are principally intended to improve their capacity to discharge their functions, including the supervision of legal provisions relating to conditions of work and the protection of workers. It indicates that it will provide further information on the training provided. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide indications of the frequency, duration and type of training provided to labour inspectors, and the number of participants during the period covered by the next report. The Committee reminds the Government that ILO technical assistance can be requested with a view to improving the competence levels of inspectors and their adaptation to changes in the world of work.

Articles 14 and 21(f) and (g). Statistics of industrial accidents and occupational diseases. The Committee takes due note of the Government’s commitment to provide the indications requested concerning the specific risks to which workers are exposed when engaged in “community services and social services” and requests it to do so in its next report.

The Committee also requests the Government to take measures to promote procedures for the diagnosis of cases of occupational disease and the compilation of relevant statistics, and to provide the necessary information with its report.

Articles 20 and 21. Annual labour inspection report. While noting with interest the data provided in the Government’s report on labour inspection activities relating to compliance with legal provisions respecting general conditions of work, occupational safety and health and the security of workers’ accommodation, the Committee reminds the Government that, in accordance with the Convention, an annual report containing information on the subjects set out in clauses (a) to (g) of Article 21 is to be published and communicated to the ILO by the central labour inspection authority, on an annual basis, in accordance with the time limits set out in Article 20. The purposes of such reporting at the national and international levels are explained by the Committee in its General Survey of 2006 on labour inspection, and indications are provided in Paragraph 9 of Recommendation No. 81 on the manner in which information could be viably presented. The Committee invites the Government to refer in particular in this respect to its general observation of 2009 on the need to establish and update a register of workplaces and enterprises liable to inspection. The Government is therefore requested to ensure that full effect is given to Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention through the publication and communication by the central inspection authority to the ILO of an annual report containing information that is useful for evaluating the operation of the inspection system and determining the means required for the progressive improvement of the level of application of the Convention.