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

Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1992)

Legislation. The Committee notes revised version No. 1 of the Basic Radiological Protection and Safety Regulations (standard UY100), which maintains the values referred to by the Committee in its previous comments. It also notes that a draft Act on radiological protection and safety has been before Parliament for examination since 2006. The Committee requests the Government to continue to supply information on any new developments in this respect.

Article 14 of the Convention. Alternative employment or other measures offered for maintaining income where continued assignment to work involving exposure is medically inadvisable. In its previous comments the Committee drew the Government’s attention to paragraph 32 of its 1992 general observation under the Convention, which states that every effort must be made to provide the workers concerned with suitable alternative employment or to maintain their income through social security measures or otherwise where continued assignment to work involving exposure to ionizing radiation is found to be medically inadvisable. The Committee asked the Government to supply information on the measures taken to ensure the application of this Article of the Convention. The Committee notes that the Government merely replies that the State Insurance Bank, through its professional staff, assesses the risks to which workers may be exposed and the consequences thereof. The Committee notes with regret that this statement does not contain the requested information. The Committee again requests the Government to take all appropriate measures to ensure that no worker shall be employed, or shall continue to be employed, in work by reason of which the worker could be the subject of exposure to ionizing radiation contrary to medical advice and that for such workers, every effort is made to provide them with suitable alternative employment or to offer them other means to maintain their income and requests the Government to keep it informed in this respect.