Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Saudi Arabia (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the Government’s report and the information supplied in reply to its comments. It notes with interest that the social insurance service and employment offices have decided to cooperate in collecting statistics on occupational diseases which, hitherto, were not identified due to the fact that their symptoms appear only after several years and that they affect an essentially mobile population consisting of migrant workers who do not reside for long in the Kingdom. The Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to take the necessary measures, if necessary with the authorities in these workers’ countries of origin, to organize an exchange of information on occupational diseases contracted during their employment in the Kingdom and that this information will be transmitted to the central labour inspection authority with a view to establishing the causes and employing the necessary resources to take action against risk factors. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information on measures taken to this end and on the results achieved.