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

Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) - Spain (Ratification: 1971)

The Committee notes the observations made by the Trade Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union of Workers (UGT), received respectively on 12 and 24 August 2014. The Committee notes that the CCOO mentions relevant complementary legislation and that the UGT considers that preventive policies on the guarding of machinery should be developed under the purview of the National Safety and Health Committee, that activities regarding inspections and penalties should be strengthened in order to significantly reduce damage caused by machinery and that these issues should be dealt with in work places and in collective bargaining, and training and information sessions should be promoted among small and medium-sized enterprises. The Committee also notes the Government’s response to these observations, received on 25 November 2014, which will be examined in due course.