Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Maximum Weight Convention, 1967 (No. 127) - Algeria (Ratification: 1969)

The Committee notes with regret that the report submitted late in 2010 did not contain any new information in response to the requests made by the Committee for several years. It must therefore repeat its previous request which read as follows:

Repetition

Article 7(1) and (2) of the Convention. Maximum weight of loads that can be transported by women and young workers. For a number of years, the Committee has noted that section 26 of Executive Decree No. 91-05 of 19 January 1991 sets the maximum weight of loads that may be transported manually by women of 18 years and over at 25 kg. In this connection, the Committee drew the Government’s attention to the ILO publication Maximum weights in load lifting and carrying (Occupational Safety and Health Series, No. 59, Geneva, 1988), which recommends for ergonomic reasons a limit of 15 kg for the admissible load for occasional lifting and carrying for women aged between 19 and 45 years. The Committee trusts that the Government will speedily take the necessary measures to give full effect to the provisions of this Article.

Article 6. Technical devices used to limit or to facilitate the manual transport of loads. The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains no details on this type of technical device used to limit or to facilitate the manual transport of goods. The Committee urges the Government to provide more detailed information in its next report on the technical devices used in order to limit or to facilitate the manual transport of loads.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the near future.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2012.]