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

Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No. 176) - Austria (Ratification: 1999)

The Committee notes the information provided regarding effect given to Articles 1(1), 4(2)(b), 5(2)(b), 5(2)(c) and (d), 5(4)(d), 7(a), 9(d), 10(d) and 13(2)(c) of the Convention.

Part V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee notes the accident statistics provided for the period 2004–09 – presumably concerning the mining industry – including information which indicates that annually, the number of fatal accidents varied between zero and three; the number of serious accidents between 58 and 65 and the number of minor accidents between 111 and 150. In addition, the number of hours of work lost for every 1 million hours spent at the workplace varied between 2,647 and 3,103. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide relevant accident statistics as well as other information on the application in practice of the Convention including extracts from inspection reports and the number and nature of infringements reported, etc.