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

Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1987)

Article 3(2) of the Convention. Determination of hazardous types of work. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that the 1973 regulations on occupational safety and health conditions prohibit certain types of activity considered to be hazardous for persons under 18 years of age, and that the Government supplied a list of activities that are supposedly prohibited by the national legislation. Nevertheless, the Committee observed that, even though section 80 of the regulations prohibits the employment of women and boys under 18 years of age in activities considered to be hazardous or unhealthy, as defined in section 79, the latter section referred to a table containing a list of these activities which had not been incorporated in the regulations or attached to them.

The Committee notes the table in the Government’s report containing the list of activities considered to be hazardous or unhealthy and therefore prohibited for young persons under 18 years of age, in accordance with section 79 of the Regulations.