Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - Haiti (Ratification: 1955)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report to the effect that the OFATMA, the institution responsible for employment accident and occupational disease insurance, is endeavouring to make its inspection service more effective, to keep up to date a national register of protected workers, to gather reliable statistical data on the number and nature of the cases reported throughout the territory, to register the number of employment injuries and to take measures for their compensation.

The Committee takes due note of this information. It requests the Government to continue providing information on the measures taken by the OFATMA to obtain reliable data on the number and nature of the occupational diseases reported. In these conditions, the Committee hopes that the Government will be in a position to provide statistical data in its next report on the number of workers engaged in the trades, industries and processes included in the Schedule to Article 2 of the Convention, the cases of diseases reported and the sums paid by way of compensation, in accordance with Part V of the report form. Such data are indispensable to assess the manner in which effect is given to the Convention in practice.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.