Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187) - Cyprus (Ratification: 2009)

The Committee notes with interest the detailed and comprehensive first report submitted.

Article 4(3)(g) of the Convention. Collaboration with relevant insurance and social security schemes. The Committee notes the reference made to ongoing discussions between the Social Insurance Services of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance, the specific action that is being taken to establish a better collaboration on occupational diseases. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the outcome of these discussions.

Article 5(1). National programmes. The Committee notes with interest the Common Policy Declaration for the Construction Sector which aims to reduce the number of occupational accidents and diseases in the sector signed by Government Ministries, Employers’ Organizations, Unions as well as other organizations and authorities involved in the Construction Sector and the bi annual inspection programme containing monthly, bimonthly and quarterly inspection campaigns targeted toward specific economic activity sectors which are deemed to be high risk such as the construction industry (with a focus on work at height, excavations and heat stress) and the metal processing industry. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the impact of these measures and the results obtained.

Part V of the report form. Application in practice. The Committee notes with interest the detailed and comprehensive 2010 report from the Department of labour inspection including both basic data and detailed analyses thereof. The Committee also notes the incidence of accidents in the construction which undoubtedly caused the focus on the construction sector referred to above. With reference to the data in the labour inspection report, the Committee notes that the manufacturing sector, including in particular the manufacture of food sector appears a sector with a high incidence of accidents. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide similar up to date information and to provide information on measures taken to address the high incidence of accidents in the manufacturing sector, in particular in the manufacture of food sector.