Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167) - Hungary (Ratification: 1989)

1. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report, including information regarding relevant legislation. The Committee notes, in particular, that this list of legal and regulatory instruments includes several texts, adopted in 2000-04, which seem to directly relate to the application of the Convention, but which are unavailable to the Committee. These include, in particular, the following: Joint Decree No. 4/2002.(11.20.) of the Minister of Social and Family Affairs and the Minister of Health on the minimum safety requirements for construction sites and construction processes; Joint Decree No. 3/2002 of the Minister of Social and Family Affairs and the Minister of Health on minimum safety requirements at work; Decree No. 14/2004.(IV.19.) of the Minister of Employment and Labour on minimum safety and health requirements for work equipment and the use thereof. The Committee further notes that the Government also refers to Hungarian technical standards that contain provisions, which seem to give effect to the Convention but which are also unavailable to the Committee. These include: Hungarian Standard series No. MSZ 2364 – installation of electrical equipment of buildings; No. MSZ EN 81-3:2002 – safety requirements for the structure and installation of lifts; No. MSZ 13010-13017 – construction scaffolding; No. MSZ HD 1000:2002 – prefabricated scaffolding, materials, sizes, load-bearing capacities, and safety requirements; and No. MSZ HD 1004:2000 – prefabricated drilling scaffolding materials, sizes, load-bearing capacities, and safety requirements. In order to enable the Committee to make an appropriate assessment of the relevance of this legislation for the effect given to the Convention in the country, the Committee requests the Government to communicate with its next report copies of the referenced texts and any other relevant legislative and other texts, if possible in one of the working languages of the Office.

2. In the meantime, and on the basis of available information, the Committee requests the Government to provide additional information on the effect given to the following provisions of the Convention:

–         Article 16. Measures taken to ensure healthy and safe use of transport, earth-moving and materials-handling equipment;

–         Article 19. Measures taken to ensure healthy and safe work;

–         Article 21. Measures legally prescribed to ensure safe work in compressed air; and

–         Article 23. Measures to ensure healthy and safe work over water.

3. Part IV of the report form. Practical implementation of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in your country including, for instance, extracts from the reports of inspection services, information on the number of workers covered by the legislation, disaggregated by gender, if possible, the number and nature of contraventions reported, and the number of accidents.