Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1992, publiée 79ème session CIT (1992)

Convention (n° 42) (révisée) des maladies professionnelles, 1934 - Algérie (Ratification: 1962)

Article 2 of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with interest the Government's statement that the interministerial technical committee set up to examine existing schedules of occupational diseases and to modify and update them as necessary, taking into account the points raised by the Committee of Experts, has completed its work. It also notes that the schedules will be forwarded to the Office as soon as they are published. The Committee therefore hopes that the implementing texts of Act No. 83-13 of 5 July 1983 will shortly be adopted and that the new schedule of occupational diseases will accordingly take account of the points raised concerning the schedules annexed to the Order of 22 March 1968 as amended, namely:

(a) the list of the various pathological manifestations appearing under each "disease" in the left-hand column of the schedules in the national legislation should be of an indicative nature, as is the list of corresponding activities in the right-hand column of these schedules;

(b) the wording of the items concerning poisoning by arsenic (schedules Nos. 20 and 21), manifestations due to the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series (schedules Nos. 3, 11, 12, 26 and 27), poisoning by phosphorus and certain of its compounds (schedules Nos. 5 and 34) should be replaced by wording covering in general terms - like that of the Convention - all manifestations that may be caused by the above substances (wording of this kind would make it possible also to cover diseases that might be caused by the utilisation of new products, as the Government pointed out earlier);

(c) the activities that may cause anthrax infection (schedule No. 18) should include the loading and unloading or transport of merchandise in general, so as to cover workers (such as dockers) who may unwittingly have transported merchandise contaminated by the anthrax spore.