Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 1967)

For a number of years the Committee has been drawing the Government's attention to the need to take measures to give effect to the provisions of Articles 2 to 4 of the Convention (prohibition of the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machinery of which the dangerous parts are without appropriate guards).

In its reports the Government has referred several times to a draft Order on the guarding of machinery which the Government sent in 1983, and to the revision of the Labour Code. It also indicated that when the Code was revised, provisions would be adopted to give effect to the above-mentioned Articles of the Convention.

The Committee notes that in its last report the Government states that the draft Order on the guarding of machinery can be adopted only after the new Labour Code has been promulgated, which is not yet the case.

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government on the practical application of the Convention to the effect that the number of accidents due to machines was 82, 6 and 17 in 1989, 1990 and 1991 respectively.

The Committee hopes that the Government will do its utmost to take the necessary measures in the very near future. It asks the Government to indicate whether the draft Order referred to in its report is the same as the one the Committee noted in 1983 and on which it commented in a direct request of the same year.