Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2009, Publicación: 99ª reunión CIT (2010)

Convenio sobre la protección contra las radiaciones, 1960 (núm. 115) - España (Ratificación : 1962)

Article 14 of the Convention. Alternative employment or other measures offered for maintaining income where continued work involving exposure is inadvisable. With reference to its previous comments. The Committee notes with interest the adoption of Basic Act No. 3/2007 of 22 March on effective equality between men and women and its enabling provisions. The Act introduces a new contingency to be protected, namely risk during breastfeeding, which it equates with pregnancy, and at the same time raises the level of protection by increasing the economic benefit to 100 per cent to the regulatory base, equivalent to the real wage. Furthermore, it treats these contingencies as occupational, which means that all women workers are covered whether or not they have prior periods of contribution and even when the employer has failed to affiliate and register the worker. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on applications for alternative employment filed in connection with this Article and on the action taken on them.

Parts III and V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee notes the detailed information supplied by the Government on inspections and the tables relating the inspections with ionizing radiations. It notes that during the period 2007–09, there were no instances of cancer caused by ionizing radiations and that in 2007, the group of enterprises which notified the most cases of occupational diseases caused by ionizing radiations as physical agents was the manufacturing sector (57.14 per cent), followed by commerce, repair of vehicles and personal and domestic items (28.6 per cent). The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the type of work in the abovementioned group of enterprises that notified these cases, indicating, for example which sectors in manufacturing are the most exposed to ionizing radiations, and any measures taken to improve the protection of workers in these sectors. It also asks the Government to continue to provide information on the work done by the labour inspectorate in connection with ionizing radiations, including statistical information.