Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2021, published 110th ILC session (2022)

Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932 (No. 32) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1933)

Part V of the report form. Application in practice. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest the adoption of the Port Security and Hazardous Loads Manual approved by Decision No. 725/4.063 of 25 November 2020 of the National Port Administration, the purpose of which is to establish directives for the handling, unloading, storage and transport of hazardous goods in port installations.

The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the Tripartite Port Commission, established under Decree No. 394/018 of 2018 on the regulation of activities considered to be dock work agreed in 2020 on a protocol to prevent the propagation of the COVID-19 virus in ports. The Government also indicates that the inspections carried out under the due Decree began to be undertaken as from 2020, but have been temporarily replaced by inspections to control working conditions to prevent the propagation of the COVID-19 virus. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing information on the inspections carried out within the framework of Decree No. 394/018 of 2018 respecting the regulation of activities considered to be dock work, as well as information on the number and nature of the violations and accidents recorded.

Prospects for the ratification of the most up-to-date Convention. Noting the latest positive measures adopted by the Government in relation to the protection of dockworkers against accidents, the Committee encourages the Government to give effect to the decision adopted by the Governing Body at its 328th Session (October-November 2016) approving the recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group and to consider the possibility of ratifying the Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Convention, 1979 (No. 152), which is the most up-to-date instrument in this field.