Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - French Polynesia

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report received in November 2012 does not indicate any specific measure taken for over 20 years to: (a) ensure that the pathological manifestations enumerated under each of the diseases indicated in the schedules of the national legislation are of a non-restrictive nature; (b) remedy the absence in the schedules of an item covering, in general terms, as in the Convention, poisoning by the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series and by all of the compounds of phosphorous; and (c) include among the types of work likely to give rise to primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin, any process involving the handling of the products indicated in the Convention.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.