Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Niger (Ratification: 1964)

With reference to the comments that it has been making for many years, the Committee notes that, following the adoption of Order No. 114/MFP/T, of 15 July 2003, the members of the Technical Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (CTCSST) have been appointed. It also notes that its comments were taken into account in the preparation of the draft Decree issuing regulations under the Labour Code. The Committee therefore hopes that the regulations referred to above will be adopted in the near future and that their adoption will provide a basis for giving effect to the following Articles of the Convention.

Articles 2 and 4 (prohibition of the sale, hire, transfer in any other manner and exhibition of machinery without appropriate guards; formal designation of the persons upon whom the obligation to ensure the application of this prohibition rests), Article 10 (information and instructions to be given to workers) and Article 11 (prohibition upon using any machinery without the guards provided being in position or made inoperative). The Committee hopes that the Government will indicate the progress achieved in this respect in its next report.