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

White Lead (Painting) Convention, 1921 (No. 13) - Chile (Ratification: 1925)

Article 7 of the Convention read in conjunction with Part V of the report form. Statistics on lead poisoning among working painters. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that, under the terms of section 184(4) and (5) of Legislative Decree No. 2 of 1967, as amended by sections 4 and 5 of Act No. 20123, published in the Diario Oficial of 16 October 2006, the Labour Directorate has to notify the respective administrative body under Act No. 16744 on social security for occupational accidents and diseases of all violations or shortcomings in the field of safety and health, with a copy to the Social Security Supervisory Authority. The administrative body, within 30 days of notification, is under an obligation to inform the Labour Directorate and the supervisory authority referred to above regarding the specific safety measures that the enterprise has been ordered to take to remedy the infringements or shortcomings notified. It also notes that, according to the report, inspection reports and data on the number and nature of the violations relating to the application of the Convention are not available. The Committee nevertheless understands that the enforcement of the texts referred to above will make it possible to identify the number and nature of violations relating to the Convention. Moreover, the Committee notes that the Government has not provided information for many years on the application of Article 7 of the Convention, that is on lead poisoning among working painters. The Committee, recalling that Article 7 of the Convention establishes the obligation to obtain statistics on lead poisoning among working painters in relation to morbidity and mortality, requests the Government to take the necessary measures to compile and provide such information, where possible covering the period of five years of the report, so that the Committee is able to examine trends in this respect. The Committee also once again requests the Government to provide summaries of the reports of the labour inspection services, where they are related to the Convention, with an indication of the number and nature of the violations of the Convention identified, either through the machinery envisaged in Act No. 16744 referred to by the Government in its report, or through other machinery, and on the specific remedial measures ordered by the administrative body to remedy the violations or shortcomings reported.