R32 Recommendation concerning Responsibility for the Protection of Power-driven Machinery
Geneva, 21 giugno 1929
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twelfth Session on 30 May 1929, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to responsibility for the protection of power-driven machinery, which is included in the first item on the agenda of the Session, and
Having determined that these proposals should take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-first day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Power-driven Machinery Recommendation, 1929, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:
I
In order more effectively to ensure, in the interest of the safety of the workers, that the requirements prescribed by national laws or regulations for the protection of power-driven machinery used in the country concerned are properly complied with, and without prejudice to the responsibility which should in any case rest and remain on the employer for seeing that any machinery used in his undertaking is protected in accordance with national laws or regulations,
The Conference recommends that each Member adopt and apply to as great an extent as possible the principle that it should be prohibited by law to supply or install any machine intended to be driven by mechanical power and to be used within its territory, unless it is furnished with the safety appliances required by law for the operation of machines of that type.
The previous paragraph applies to any electrical equipment forming part of such a machine.
II
Each Member should keep the International Labour Office informed of the measures taken by it to apply the above-mentioned principle and of the results of its application.
The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, Having been convened in Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its 92nd Session on 1 June 2004, and Following consideration of the proposal for the withdrawal of several international labour Recommendations, which is the seventh item on the agenda of this session, decides this sixteenth day of June of the year two thousand and four to withdraw the Power-driven Machinery Recommendation, 1929 (No. 32). The Director-General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization as well as the Secretary-General of the United Nations of this decision to withdraw the instrument. The English and French versions of the text of this decision are equally authoritative.
La Raccomandazione è stata ritirata il 1 giugno 2004
Fonte: ILO