Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Djibouti (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes that no report has been received from the Government. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee noted from the Government's report for 1983 that the risk due to the use of X-rays continued to be the only risk of exposure to radiation in Djibouti. It hopes that the Government will provide in its next report information on any progress made in this regard.

Article 3, paragraph 1, and Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee noted that the maximum permissible dose levels of ionising radiations had not been reviewed recently. It hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to keep those limits under constant review, in light of current knowledge, as required by these provisions of the Convention, and that the next report will indicate any modifications which may have been made as a result.

Article 7, paragraphs 1(b) and 2. The Committee noted the Government's statement that apart from work in medical institutions, there was no risk exposing workers to radiations in Djibouti and that therefore, no child under 18 years of age was assigned to work involving exposure to ionising radiations. The Committee would point out that there are no provisions in Order No. 1010/SG/CG of 3 July 1968 concerning the protection of workers against radiation in hospitals and health-care institutions, or in Order No. 786 of 17 June 1955 on employment of children or in Order No. 72-60/SG/CG of 12 January 1972 on occupational medicine, prohibiting the employment of children under 18 or 16 years of age in radiation work and/or fixing maximum permissible doses for workers between 16 and 18 who are directly engaged in radiation work as required by Article 7, paragraphs 1(b) and 2, of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the next report will indicate the measures taken or envisaged to introduce such provisions.

Article 11. The Committee noted that the Government's report did not directly respond to its request of 1984 concerning the application of this Article of the Convention. It requests the Government to supply information on the measures taken or envisaged to ensure the monitoring of workers covered by Order No. 1010/SG/CG, in order to measure their exposure to ionising radiations with a view to ascertaining that applicable dose levels are respected. Such measures might be effected by films, dosemeters or other suitable means, as suggested in paragraph 17(2) of the Radiation Protection Recommendation, 1960 (No. 114).

Article 13. The Committee requests the Government, in its future reports, to provide information on the adoption of special measures which apply this provision of the Convention (remedial action to be taken in the case of an emergency and notification to the competent authority).