Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974 (No. 139) - Slovakia (Ratification: 1993)

Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, the annual report of the Regional Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic (RPHA) indicates that the number of persons exposed to selected carcinogenic and mutagenic factors dropped from 7,206 (in 403 workplaces) in 2011 to 3,993 (in 247 workplaces) in 2013, and that the RPHA carried out inspections in numerous sectors of economic activity in 2013, namely pharmaceutical operations, commercial companies, laundry companies and wood-processing factories. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide detailed information on the application in practice of the Convention in the country, including information concerning the number of workers covered by the legislation, disaggregated by gender, if possible, the number and nature of the contraventions reported, the number, nature and cause of cases of disease, and the number of workplaces concerned, etc.