Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Brazil (Ratification: 1992)

The Committee notes with interest the information provided by the Government in its first report. It requests the Government to provide additional information on the following matters.

Article 2, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Please indicate the provisions which prohibit the transfer in any other manner (with the exception of the sale or letting out on hire) and exhibition of machinery of which the dangerous parts are without appropriate guards. If effect is given to this provision by "other equally effective measures", please indicate the nature of these measures.

Article 2, paragraphs 3 and 4. Please indicate the provision designating the parts and machinery enumerated in these provisions of the Convention which are liable to present danger to any person coming into contact with them and which have to be designed or protected to prevent such danger.

Article 4. Please indicate the provision that places the obligation to ensure compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of the Convention upon the vendor, the person letting out on hire or transferring the machinery in any other manner, the exhibitor, their respective agents or the manufacturer when he sells machinery, lets it out on hire, transfers it in any other manner or exhibits it.

Article 11. Please indicate the provisions or measures of a formal nature that ensure that no worker is required to use any machinery without the guards provided being in position and that no such guards are made inoperative.

Article 12. Please indicate whether the rights of workers under national social security or social insurance legislation have been affected by the provisions adopted to give effect to the Convention.

Article 14. Please indicate whether the term "employer" also includes, where appropriate, the agent of the employer.