Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 124) - Azerbaijan (Ratification: 1992)

Article 3(2) of the Convention. X-ray film of the lungs during initial and periodical medical examination. The Committee had previously noted the Government’s information that the medical examination of workers entering underground occupations includes compulsory X-ray examinations both prior to starting work and as part of their periodic examinations thereafter. The Committee notes with regret that despite its repeated requests over a number of years, the Government has not provided a copy of the legislation containing the above provision. The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to supply a copy of the legislative provisions which provide for X-ray examinations of the lungs during initial and periodic medical examinations of young persons under 21 years of age who are employed or work underground.

Article 4(4) and (5). Keeping of records. The Committee had previously requested the Government to indicate the provisions making it compulsory for the employer to keep, and make available to inspectors and, at their request, to the workers’ representatives, records containing in respect of persons under 21 years of age who work underground: (a) the date of birth, duly certified wherever possible; (b) an indication of the nature of their occupation; and (c) a certificate which attests fitness for employment but does not contain medical data. Noting the absence of information in the Government’s report, the Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the provisions which require the employer to keep records containing the data listed in Article 4(4) in respect of persons under 21 years of age who are employed or work underground. It also requests the Government to supply a copy of such provisions.