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

Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932 (No. 32) - Panama (Ratification: 1971)

Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Regulations on safety and health in dock work and the Regulations on safety and health committees on dock work, which were approved by the national Port Authority Executive Committee on 9 August 1988, give effect to the following provisions of the Convention: Article 2, paragraph 1 (maintenance of all regular approaches over a dock, wharf or quay with due regard to the safety of the workers using them); Article 3, paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 (means of access for passing to or from the ship); Article 4 (measures to ensure the safe transport of workers by water); Article 5, paragraph 3 (sufficient free passage to the means of access at the coamings); Article 6 (protection of the coamings of holds by fences); Article 7 (lighting the means of access and workplaces on board ship); Article 9, paragraphs 1, 2(1), (3), (4), (6) and (7) (examination and inspection of hoisting machines and gear); Article 10 (employment of competent and reliable persons to operate lifting machinery); Article 12 (protection of workers dealing with or working in the proximity of dangerous goods); Article 13 (existence of first-aid materials on docks, wharfs, quays and similar places used for work; provision for the rescue of immersed workers); Article 16 (obligation to apply immediately the measures set out in the Convention to ships, the building of which has been commenced); Article 17 (measures to ensure the due enforcement of any regulations).

The Committee is raising a number of other points in a request that is being addressed directly to the Government.