Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2012, Publicación: 102ª reunión CIT (2013)

Convenio sobre la cerusa (pintura), 1921 (núm. 13) - Guinea (Ratificación : 1959)

Legislation. The Committee notes that in 1982, the Government transmitted a copy of Ministerial Order No. 2262/MT of 9 April 1982 (Order No. 2262), prohibiting employment involving exposure to white lead, sulphate of lead or any other product containing these pigments, and thereby giving effect to the Articles of the Convention. The reports submitted between 1983 and 1997, contain no information regarding legislative changes undertaken. However, according to the report submitted in 2003, the Government seemed to indicate that new legislation was contemplated in application of Decree No. 97/287/PRG/SGG, adopted in 1997, regulating the management and control of noxious and hazardous chemicals (Decree No. 287). In the light of the foregoing, the Committee has since been requesting information on progress regarding legislation reportedly contemplated to revise or amend current legislation, as well as on the continued validity of Order No. 2262. The Committee also notes that copies of the following legislation are attached to the Government’s most recent report: Decree No. 287; Order No. A/2001/4784/MMGE/SGG (Order No. 4784); Order No. A/2001/4785/MMGE/SGG (Order No. 4785) and Order No. 2265/MT of 1982 concerning protection against intoxication risks related to benzene. Order No. 4784 was adopted under sections 3, 4 and 5 of Decree No. 287 concerning the list of prohibited chemical substances, the classification of noxious and hazardous chemicals into four categories, and the determination of substances which should be classified in each of these categories. Order No. 4784 should contain four annexes, but the Committee notes that only Annex I, listing the extremely dangerous substances pertaining to national category 1- was attached to the report. Order No. 4785 was adopted under section 8 of Decree No. 287 and concerns the procedure and conditions for obtaining authorizations under Decree No. 287 and the required security arrangements related to the handling of chemicals. The Committee notes that none of the texts submitted regulate the use of lead, its compounds and derivatives, and that the Government, in its most recent report, indicates that no measures have been taken to prepare such texts. Against this background, the Committee urges the Government to clarify the legal situation and to provide a detailed report regarding the current and valid legislation adopted to give effect to the present Convention.

Article 7 of the Convention. Statistics concerning morbidity and mortality among working painters. The Committee notes that in its report submitted in 1992, the Government indicated that, while no cases of lead poisoning had formally been registered by the health specialists, the health technicians believed that one of the causes for the lack of knowledge about lead poisoning could be technical difficulties in identifying lead poisoning. The Government is requested to provide updated information about the current situation, including statistics on morbidity and mortality due to lead poisoning, and the measures taken to address the causes for the lack of knowledge about lead poisoning.