Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Bahrain (Ratification: 1981)

The Committee notes the Government's reports from 1995 and 1999, the relevant legislative and regulatory texts annexed thereto, as well as the annual reports on the activities of the safety and health service from 1995 to 1998. The Committee draws the Government's attention to the following points.

Article 14 of the Convention. The Committee notes that under section 130 of the 1976 Labour Code for the private sector a schedule of occupational diseases, indicating the branches of activities where they may be contracted, is annexed to the law on social insurance. Moreover, section 120 of this Code provided for the repeal of sections 121 to 129 regarding the procedure applicable in the event of occupational accidents and diseases following adoption of the law on social insurance. Since this was adopted in 1995, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information on the provisions currently in force as regards the notification and follow-up and of cases of occupational accidents and diseases.

Article 21. The Committee notes with interest the detailed information contained in the annual inspection reports from 1995 and 1996 covering the subjects listed under Article 21(a), (b), (d), (e), (f), and also in the annual inspection reports from 1997 and 1998 on occupational diseases (g). Nevertheless, the Committee notes the absence firstly, of statistics of workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein (c); and secondly, statistics on enterprises in the oil sector. Recalling that the Convention applies to all industrial workplaces and, for all Members who have chosen to ratify Part II of the Convention, also to commercial workplaces, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would take the steps necessary to include in the annual reports of the inspection services statistics for all establishments liable to inspection, including the establishments in the oil sector.