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

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Lebanon (Ratification: 1977)

1. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report and the attached legislation.

2. Articles 6(1) and 7(1) of the Convention. Dose limits. The Committee notes with interest the adoption of Decree No. 11802 of 30 January 2004 regarding the organization of prevention, safety and professional hygiene in all establishments governed by the Labour Code ensuring the application of most of the Articles of the Convention. It notes with satisfaction that table 2 of the Decree provides for a maximum annual dose limit of 20 mSv over a five-year period for workers over 18 years of age involved in ionizing radiation work which reflects the dose limits for exposure to ionizing radiation in the 1990 Recommendation of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) to which the Committee refers in its 1992 general observation under the Convention. The Committee also notes with satisfaction that section 14 of the Decree also includes provisions providing for alternative employment which, as the Committee noted in its 1992 general observation, is a general principle of occupational safety and health which appears in article 17 of the Occupational Health Services Recommendation, 1985 (No. 171), as well as in Paragraph 27 of the Radiation Protection Recommendation, 1960 (No. 114).

3. The Committee is raising certain other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.