Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Ghana (Ratification: 1965)

Articles 1 and 17 of the Convention. Scope of application. The Committee notes the Government’s statement in its report that, in light of the need to extend the national legislation giving effect to the Convention in relation to agriculture, forestry, road and rail transport, as stressed by the Committee, it is focusing on the need to revise legislation in the field of occupational safety and health. The Government states that it is taking all necessary steps to ensure the guarding of machinery in all sectors of economic activity, especially agriculture, forestry, road and rail transport and shipping, to safeguard the safety of workers in these sectors. The Committee recalls that, for a long period of time, it has drawn the Government’s attention to the need to extend the legislation giving effect to the Convention to these sectors. The Committee trusts that, in the context of the revision of the legislation in the field of occupational safety and health, the Government will take the necessary measures to give effect to the Convention. The Committee urges the Government to take the necessary steps in the very near future to ensure the guarding of machinery in all sectors of economic activity, including agriculture, forestry, road and rail transport and shipping.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2017.]