Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Safety Provisions (Building) Convention, 1937 (No. 62) - Egypt (Ratification: 1982)

With reference to its observation on this Convention, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken to give effect to the following provisions of the Convention.

1. Article 3(a) of the Convention. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that the national regulations contain no provision requiring employers to bring to the notice of all persons concerned - in a manner approved by the competent authority - the laws or regulations ensuring the application of Parts II to IV of the Convention and of the model code annexed to the Safety Provisions (Building) Recommendation, 1937 (No. 53), which supplements the Convention. The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the measures which have been taken or are envisaged to give effect to the Convention on this point, for example by requiring that the text of provisions intended to give effect to Parts II to IV of the Convention and the model code referred to above be displayed on notice boards in building enterprises.

2. The Committee refers to its previous comments concerning Article 7 (the construction of suitable scaffolds by competent workers under the supervision of a competent and responsible person, of sound material and so constructed that no part thereof can be displaced in consequence of normal use; the periodic inspection of scaffolds and the prohibition of overloading; ensuring the strength and stability of scaffolds before authorizing their use by workers and before installing lifting gear), Article 8, paragraphs 1(a) and 2(a) (the construction of working platforms, gangways and stairways which are closely bordered and so constructed that no part thereof can sag unduly or unequally), Article 14, paragraph 3 (clear indication of the safe working load of a hoisting machine having a variable safe working load), and Article 15, paragraphs 2 and 3 (adequate precautions to reduce to a minimum the risk of the accidental descent of the load and of any part of a supsended load becoming accidentally displaced).

The Committee hopes that the application of the provisions in question will be ensured by texts which will be adopted during the process of revising the national legislation planned by the Government and mentioned by it in the communications received in 1992. The Committee requests the Government to supply full information on the progress achieved in this respect.