Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Safety Provisions (Building) Convention, 1937 (No. 62) - Egypt (Ratification: 1982)

Article 3(a) of the Convention. Obligation to notify all persons concerned. The Committee had previously noted that section 217(b) (Book 5) of Labour Code No. 12 of 2003 provides that the establishment and its branches shall undertake to inform workers, before they exercise their work, of the risks of their vocation and to compel them to use the determined means of protection, in addition to providing them with the proper personal protection tools and training them to use such tools. The Committee notes that the Labour Code provides for a general obligation of information of workers but does not provide for the obligation for employers to bring the laws or regulations, which ensure the application of Parts II to IV of the Convention, to the notice of all persons concerned, as required by Article 3(a) of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to take measures to adopt provisions giving effect to Article 3(a). Noting that the Government is currently amending Ministerial Order No. 211 of 2003 on the conditions and precautions necessary for the prevention of physical, mechanical, biological, chemical and other harmful risks at the workplace, the Government could envisage to include these provisions in the framework of this review process.

Article 7(5) and (8). General rules concerning scaffolds. With reference to its previous comments where it noted the Government’s indication that account will be taken of these provisions in the context of the ongoing process to amend Ministerial Order No. 211 of 2003, the Committee notes that the Government once again indicates that the amendment process is currently under way. The Committee hopes that the Ministerial order will soon be revised and that it will give full effect to these Articles of the Convention. It requests the Government to provide information in this respect.