Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

White Lead (Painting) Convention, 1921 (No. 13) - Iraq (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes from the Government's reply to its previous direct request that no statistics concerning lead poisoning among working painters are available. The Committee would recall that Article 7 of the Convention provides that statistics as to morbidity and mortality with regard to lead poisoning among working painters shall be obtained. It notes that section 8(a) of the Instructions for the Prevention of Lead Poisoning among Painting Workers provides that cases of lead poisoning shall be reported and statistics kept (section 8(b)) and that, under section 9, the Department of Occupational Health and Safety in the Ministry of Labour is responsible for supervising the implementation of the Instructions. The Government is requested to indicate, in its next report, the competent authority to which cases of lead poisoning are to be reported, the authority responsible for keeping statistics concerning morbidity and mortality due to lead poisoning and the statistical methods adopted, as well as to provide any statistics which might be available.