Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Maximum Weight Convention, 1967 (No. 127) - Lebanon (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Articles 3, 4 and 7(2) of the Convention. Maximum weight of loads which may be transported manually by workers of both gender and workers under 18 years of age. The Committee notes the information that a Committee charged with the consideration of international Conventions by virtue of Note No. 58/1 of 30 June 2009 will ensure that a schedule is added to Decree No. 11892 of 20 June 2004 which will specify that the maximum limits on loads which may be transported manually by adult male workers; and that the Occupational Prevention and Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labour has recommended 30 kg as the maximum limit on loads. The Committee also notes that the application of this Convention, as well as of other Conventions ratified by Lebanon, will be examined by the high level Tripartite National Committee for Occupational Safety and Health which is being established. The Committee requests the Government to keep the Office informed of any further developments as regards the determination of maximum weight limits on loads that may be transported by workers of both gender and workers under 18 years of age.

Article 5. Training of workers before their assignment with a view to preventing accidents. The Committee notes the information that the Permanent Committee on Trade Union Training and Workers’ Education has not yet been established, but that it is part of the planned mandate of the high-level Tripartite National Committee for Occupational Safety and Health which is being established. The Committee notes the information that a training course for 11 physician–inspectors and 12 engineer inspectors was organized on 18 July 2009 for the Occupational Prevention and Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labour in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme and the Regional Office for the Arab States in Beirut. The Committee hopes that the Permanent Committee on Trade Union Training and Workers’ Education will be established in the near future and that the application of the Convention will continue to be improved through training targeting labour inspectors, employers and workers, where possible, in the context of technical cooperation programmes undertaken by Lebanon and relevant international organizations, including the ILO.