Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

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

Article 11 of the Convention. The Committee refers to its previous comments in which it drew the Government's attention to the need to take measures to ensure that no worker may use or be required to use machinery without the guards provided being in position, and that no worker may make such guards inoperative. The Committee refers to the Government's statement in its report on the application of the Convention for the period ending 30 June 1992, that the regulatory part of the draft Labour Code will provide expressly that no worker may use machinery of which the guards are inoperative. In view of the absence of any new information on the matter, the Committee again expresses the hope that relevant provisions will be adopted in the near future and asks the Government to provide a copy of them as soon as they have been adopted.

Article 17. For more than 20 years the Committee has been drawing the Government's attention to the lack of any measures to ensure the application of the provisions of the Convention to machinery used in agriculture. The Committee refers to its previous observation and urges the Government to consider the possibility of introducing provisions giving effect to the Convention in the agricultural sector in the regulatory part of the draft Labour Code currently being prepared or in some other law or regulation.