Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Maximum Weight Convention, 1967 (No. 127) - Tunisia (Ratification: 1970)

Referring to its observation on the Convention, the Committee requests the Government to supply additional information on the following point.

Articles 3 and 7, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that under Article 2 of the Order of 5 May 1988, the limit set for maximum weight of loads to be transported manually by women aged 18 years or older is 25 kg. The Committee would refer the Government to the ILO publication "Maximum weights in load lifting and carrying" (Occupational Safety and Health Series, No. 59, Geneva, 1988), in which it is indicated that 15 kg is the limit, recommended from an ergonomic point of view, of the admissible load for occasional lifting and carrying for a woman aged between 19 and 45 years. The Committee hopes that the Government will re-examine the current limit of 25 kg with a view to further limiting the assignment of women workers to the manual transport of light loads, not exceeding, as much as possible, 15 kg, and that it will indicate the measures taken or envisaged to this end.