Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Morocco (Ratification: 1974)

The Committee notes from the Government's reply to its previous direct request that the draft Labour Code which, according to the Government's previous statements, was to contain provisions giving effect to Article 11 of the Convention has not yet been adopted. The Committee trusts that the draft Labour Code, to which reference has been made for more than ten years, will be adopted very shortly and that it will provide that no worker shall be authorised or required to use machinery without the guards provided being in position and that it is unlawful for such guards to be made inoperative, in accordance with Article 11 of the Convention.

The Committee notes that the Government has not provided the information requested in its previous direct requests concerning measures ensuring the application of the provisions of the Convention to machinery used in agriculture, in accordance with Article 17 of the Convention. It trusts that the next report will indicate the measures taken or envisaged, possibly as part of the draft Labour Code which is being prepared, to give full effect to the Convention on this point.