Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) - Kazakhstan (Ratification: 1996)

1. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the Government in its reports. It requests the Government to supply clarifications and supplementary information with respect to the following points.

2. Article 5, paragraph (b), of the Convention. Extent to which the coherent national policy on occupational safety and health takes into account the relationship between material elements of work and persons who carry out or supervise the work. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the methods by which effect is given to this provision of the Convention.

3. Article 11, paragraphs (c) and (d). Notification of occupational diseases and the holding of inquiries with regard to occupational diseases. The Committee notes that subsection 20.1, paragraphs 18 and 24, of the Labour Protection Law deal with the procedure for the notification of accidents and the holding of inquiries in respect of occupational accidents. The Government is requested to indicate the provisions containing similar prescriptions as regards occupational diseases.

4. Article 11, paragraph (f). System of examination of chemical, physical and biological agents in respect of the risk to health. The Committee requests the Government to indicate a method by which the competent authority or authorities ensure that this function is carried out.

5. Article 16, paragraph 2. Provisions whereby employers are required to take action called for in this paragraph. The Committee notes the Government’s reference to "safety regulations for the production, sale and use of dangerous chemical substances" as one of the instruments giving effect to this paragraph of the Convention. As these texts are not available to the Committee, it requests the Government to provide a copy of them with its next report so that it can examine the extent to which they give effect to the provision.

6. Article 19, paragraph (d). Measures to give appropriate training in occupational safety and health to workers’ representatives. The Committee notes that section 16 of the Law on the protection of labour, adopted on 28 February 2004, prescribes the measures necessary to give the appropriate training to workers at the undertaking. It requests the Government to indicate provisions providing similar measures in respect of workers’ representatives.