Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2014, publiée 104ème session CIT (2015)

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

In reply to the Committee’s previous observation, the Government indicates that the Committee’s concerns at the wording of the items pertaining to poisoning by arsenic (Schedules Nos 20 and 21), manifestations caused by the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series (Schedules Nos 3, 11, 12, 26 and 27), and poisoning by phosphorus and certain of its compounds (Schedules Nos 5 and 34) will be included in the annual programme of the Commission on Occupational Diseases. The Committee hopes that the Government will take this opportunity to submit to the Commission on Occupational Diseases its other concerns, which have been raised since 2007, with respect to:

• – the activities in which there is a risk of exposure to anthrax infection should also include the loading, unloading or transport of merchandise in general, so as to cover workers (such as dockworkers) who have transported merchandise that has been contaminated by anthrax spores; and
• – the need for the wording of the various pathological manifestations enumerated in the left-hand column of the schedules of occupational diseases entitled “Designation of diseases” to be of an indicative nature, in the same way as the wording for the corresponding types of work in the right-hand column of the schedules.