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

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Guyana (Ratification: 1966)

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:

1. The Committee noted from the Government's reply in its 1982 report that legislation had not yet been enacted to give effect to Article 10 of the Convention, which requires the notification of work involving exposure of workers to ionising radiations. It hopes that in the next report the Government will be able to indicate that steps have been taken in this regard.

2. The Committee also noted that measures are still to be taken to ensure the application of Article 3, paragraph 1, and Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Convention, which require, in light of current knowledge, that all appropriate steps shall be taken to ensure the protection of workers and that dose limits shall be kept under constant review. In this regard, the Committee noted that the Government had indicated in its first report that the Convention was applied by the United Kingdom Code of Practice for the Protection of Persons against Ionising Radiations Arising from Medical and Dental Use. It requests the Government to indicate whether and under what provisions the revision of this Code in 1972 and the revision of the more general Code of Practice against Ionising Radiations in 1985, in regard to medical and dental use, are applied in Guyana.

3. The Committee further requests the Government to supply copies of the Factories (Health and Welfare) Regulations No. 1951 and the Factories Act Cap 95:02.