Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1969)

Further to its previous observations, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Regulations on the Health and Safety of Workers and the Improvement of the Working Environment have been adopted by Decree No. 2393 of 13 November 1986 and promulgated in the Official Gazette, No. 565 of 17 November 1986, and that they give effect to the provisions of Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention (which prohibit the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner or exhibition of dangerous machinery which is not equipped with appropriate guards).