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

Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1971)

Part IV of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee notes that according to the report, the system of sanctions has three levels of penalty, corresponding to misconduct, serious misconduct and very serious misconduct and that the fines are calculated on the basis of tax units (used in levying taxes) and the number of workers exposed. It is also possible to issue warnings and apply suspension measures or close an enterprise where situations that adversely affect the health and safety of workers arise or persist, in accordance with the provisions of the Basic Act of 26 July 2005 on prevention, conditions of work and the working environment (LOPCYMAT). The Committee notes that the report gives a detailed account of the provisions of LOPCYMAT. However, it notes that the Government provides no information on the application of the Convention in practice. For example, in its previous comments the Committee noted that according to the Government, the work of the labour inspectorate was affected in 2003 but that most infringements concerned the provision of medical services and failure to notify industrial accidents; in its latest report, however, the Government does not provide information on measures taken or labour inspection campaigns carried out during the period covered by the report. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the work of the labour inspectorate as it concerns this Convention and to indicate the number of workers covered and the number and type of the infringements detected by the labour inspection services, together with information on the application of the Convention in practice.