Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Türkiye (Ratification: 1967)

Article 17 of the Convention. Applicability of the Convention to all branches of economic activity. The Committee notes that the regulation on the health and safety conditions in using work equipment, attached to the Government’s report, applies only to workplaces covered by the Labour Law dated 22 May 2003 (No. 4857), and that the implementing regulation on duties, competence, responsibilities and working principles of the engineers or technical personnel in charge of occupational safety, dated 20 January 2004, No. 25352, applies only to industrial workplaces employing at least 50 permanent workers and where permanent work over six months takes place. Noting that section 4 of Labour Law No. 4857 excludes a number of workplaces and economic activity from its scope of application, the Committee asks the Government to take measures in law and in practice to ensure full effect is given to the provisions of this Article.

Part V of the report form in conjunction with Article 15. Application in practice and appropriate inspection services for the purpose of supervising the application of the provisions of the Convention. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its reports under the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155), and the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), however the Committee notes that the Government has not responded to the concerns raised by the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) and the Turkish Confederation of Public Workers Associations (TÜRKIYE KAMU-SEN). The Committee therefore reiterates its request that the Government provide information on the application of the Convention, with particular regards to Articles 2, 6 and 10 of the Convention, on the availability of appropriate inspection services as required by Article 15, and on measures taken or envisaged to address the high number of workplace fatalities and accidents caused by machinery.