Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932 (No. 32) - Malta (Ratification: 1965)

The Committee notes the information in the Government’s report including the adoption of Work Place (First Aid) Regulations, 2002, which gives further effect to the Convention. It notes, however, that the report does not contain full information on the previous Committee’s direct request, which read as follows:

Part V of the report form. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide indications on a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in the country, including, for instance, extracts from inspectors’ reports, and if such statistics are available, information regarding the number of workers covered by the legislation, the number and nature of the contraventions reported, the number, nature and causes of accidents reported, etc.

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

The Committee also reminds the Government of the Governing Body’s invitation to States parties to Convention No. 32 to envisage ratifying the Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Convention, 1979 (No. 152), which revises Convention No. 32 (GB.268/LILS/5(Rev.1), paragraphs 99–101). Ratification of Convention No. 152 would ipso jure involve the denunciation of Convention No. 32. It would also like to draw the Government’s attention to the code of practice recently adopted by the ILO entitled Safety and health in ports (Geneva, 2005), which is available, inter alia, at the ILO web site: www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cops/english/. The Government is asked to keep the Committee informed of any progress in this area.