OSH

LEGISLATION
AND
OSH STANDARDS
•BASES OF OSH IN THE PHILIPPINES
•INTERNATIONAL OSH STANDARD BY ILO
• C167- SAFETY AND HEALTH IN CONSTRUCTION CONVENTION, 1988
• OTHER ILO INSTRUMENTS

•REPUBLIC ACT 11058

• ANACT STRENGTHENING COMPLIANCE WITH OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION
•ISSUANCES AND ORDERS OF DOLE
• DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 13 Series of 1998 -
• GUIDELINES
GOVERNING OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN
THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
• OTHER ISSUANCES AND ORDERS
•INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION (ILO)
• It
is an international organization composed of 187 Member States,
including the Philippines,
• Itis devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized
human and labor rights, pursuing its founding mission that labor peace
is essential to prosperity.
• It
is the only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919, that brings together
governments, employers and workers of the member states, to set
labor standards, develop policies and devise programs promoting
decent work for all women and men.
• SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION WEBSITE
•INTERNATIONAL OSH STANDARD BY ILO

• TheILO has adopted more than 40 standards specifically dealing

with occupational safety and health, as well as over 40 Codes of
Practice. Nearly half of ILO instruments deal directly or
indirectly with occupational safety and health issues.

• SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION WEBSITE

•ILO
KEY INSTRUMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH
•Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) -
and its Protocol of 2002
• The convention provides for the adoption of a coherent national
occupational safety and health policy, as well as action to be taken
by governments and within enterprises to promote occupational
safety and health and to improve working conditions. This policy
shall be developed by taking into consideration national conditions
and practice. The Protocol calls for the establishment and the
periodic review of requirements and procedures for the recording
and notification of occupational accidents and diseases, and for
the publication of related annual statistics.
•ILO
KEY INSTRUMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH
•Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985 (No. 161)
• This convention provides for the establishment of enterprise-level
occupational health services which are entrusted with essentially
preventive functions and which are responsible for advising the
employer, the workers and their representatives in the enterprise
on maintaining a safe and healthy working environment.

•
•ILO
KEY INSTRUMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH
•Asbestos Convention, 1986 (No. 162)
• Aims at preventing the harmful effects of exposure to asbestos
on the health of workers by indicating reasonable and
practicable methods and techniques of reducing occupational
exposure to asbestos to a minimum. With a view to achieving
this objective, the convention enumerates various detailed
measures, which are based essentially on the prevention and
control of health hazards due to occupational exposure to
asbestos, and the protection of workers against these hazards.
•
•ILO
KEY INSTRUMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH
•Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170) - [ratifications]
• The Convention provides for the adoption and implementation
of a coherent policy on safety in the use of chemicals at work,
which includes the production, the handling, the storage, and
the transport of chemicals as well as the disposal and treatment
of waste chemicals, the release of chemicals resulting from work
activities, and the maintenance, repair and cleaning of
equipment and containers of chemicals. In addition, it allocates
specific responsibilities to suppliers and exporting states.
•
•ILO
KEY INSTRUMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH
•PromotionalFramework for Occupational Safety and Health
Convention, 2006 (No. 187)
• Asan instrument setting out a promotional framework, this
Convention is designed to provide for coherent and systematic
treatment of occupational safety and health issues and to promote
recognition of existing Conventions on occupational safety and
health. The Convention is aimed at establishing and implementing
coherent national policies on occupational safety and health
through dialogue between government, workers’ and employers’
organizations and to promote a national preventive safety and
health culture.
•ILO
KEY INSTRUMENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL
SAFETY AND HEALTH
•Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988 (No. 167)
• The convention provides for detailed technical preventive and
protective measures having due regard for the specific
requirements of this sector. These measures relate to safety of
workplaces, machines and equipment used, work at heights and
work executed in compressed air.

•
•C167
- SAFETY AND HEALTH IN
CONSTRUCTION CONVENTION, 1988
•PREAMBLE:

• TheGeneral 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 Seventy-fifth Session on 1 June 1988, (xxx) adopts this
twentieth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred
and eighty-eight the following Convention, which may be cited
as the Safety and Health in Construction Convention, 1988.
•ARTICLE 1:
• 1. This Convention applies to all construction activities,
namely building, civil engineering, and erection and
dismantling work, including any process, operation or
transport on a construction site, from the preparation
of the site to the completion of the project.

•
•ARTICLE 1:
• 2.
A Member ratifying this Convention may, after consultation
with the most representative organizations of employers and
workers concerned, where they exist, exclude from the
application of the Convention, or certain provisions thereof,
particular branches of economic activity or particular
undertakings in respect of which special problems of a
substantial nature arise, on condition that a safe and healthy
working environment is maintained.
• 3.This Convention also applies to such self-employed persons
as may be specified by national laws or regulations.
•ARTICLE 2:
• For the purpose of this Convention:
• (a) The term construction covers:

• (i)
building, including excavation and the construction, structural
alteration, renovation, repair, maintenance (including cleaning and
painting) and demolition of all types of buildings or structures;
• (ii)
civil engineering, including excavation and the construction,
structural alteration, repair, maintenance and demolition of, for
example, airports, docks, harbours, inland waterways, dams, river and
avalanche and sea defense works, roads and highways, railways,
bridges, tunnels, viaducts and works related to the provision of
services such as communications, drainage, sewerage, water and
energy supplies;
•ARTICLE 2:
• (iii)the erection and dismantling of prefabricated buildings
and structures, as well as the manufacturing of prefabricated
elements on the construction site;
• (b)
the term construction site means any site at which any of
the processes or operations described in subparagraph (a)
above are carried on;
• (c)
the term workplace means all places where workers need to
be or to go by reason of their work and which are under the
control of an employer as defined in subparagraph (e) below;
•ARTICLE 2:
• (d) the term worker means any person engaged in construction;
• (e) the term employer means:
• (i) any physical or legal person who employs one or more workers on a
construction site; and
• (ii) as the context requires, the principal contractor, the contractor or
the subcontractor;
• (f)
the term competent person means a person possessing adequate
qualifications, such as suitable training and sufficient knowledge,
experience and skill for the safe performance of the specific work. The
competent authorities may define appropriate criteria for the designation
of such persons and may determine the duties to be assigned to them;
•ARTICLE 2:
• (g)
the term scaffold means any temporary structure, fixed,
suspended or mobile, and its supporting components which is
used for supporting workers and materials or to gain access to
any such structure, and which is not a "lifting appliance" as
defined in subparagraph (h) below;
• (h)
the term lifting appliance means any stationary or mobile
appliance used for raising or lowering persons or loads;
• (i)
the term lifting gear means any gear or tackle by means of
which a load can be attached to a lifting appliance but which
does not form an integral part of the appliance or load.
•ARTICLE 3:
• The
most representative organizations of employers and
workers concerned shall be consulted on the measures to be
taken to give effect to the provisions of this Convention.
•ARTICLE 4:
• Each Member which ratifies this Convention undertakes that
it will, on the basis of an assessment of the safety and health
hazards involved, adopt and maintain in force laws or
regulations which ensure the application of the provisions of
the Convention.
•ARTICLE 5:
• 1.The laws and regulations adopted in pursuance of
Article 4 above may provide for their practical application
through technical standards or codes of practice, or by
other appropriate methods consistent with national
conditions and practice.
• 2.In giving effect to Article 4 above and to paragraph 1
of this Article, each Member shall have due regard to the
relevant standards adopted by recognized international
organizations in the field of standardization.
•ARTICLE 6:
• Measures shall be taken to ensure that there is co-operation
between employers and workers, in accordance with
arrangements to be defined by national laws or regulations,
in order to promote safety and health at construction sites.
•ARTICLE 7:
• National
laws or regulations shall require that employers
and self-employed persons have a duty to comply with the
prescribed safety and health measures at the workplace.
•ARTICLE 8:
• 1.Whenever two or more employers undertake activities
simultaneously at one construction site-
• (a)the principal contractor, or other person or body with
actual control over or primary responsibility for overall
construction site activities, shall be responsible for co-
ordinating the prescribed safety and health measures
and, in so far as is compatible with national laws and
regulations, for ensuring compliance with such
measures;
•ARTICLE 8:
• (b)
in so far as is compatible with national laws and
regulations, where the principal contractor, or other
person or body with actual control over or primary
responsibility for overall construction site activities, is
not present at the site, he shall nominate a competent
person or body at the site with the authority and
means necessary to ensure on his behalf co-ordination
and compliance with the measures, as foreseen in
subparagraph (a) above;
•ARTICLE 8:
• (c)
each employer shall remain responsible for the
application of the prescribed measures in respect of the
workers placed under his authority.
• 2.Whenever employers or self-employed persons
undertake activities simultaneously at one construction
site they shall have the duty to co-operate in the
application of the prescribed safety and health
measures, as may be specified by national laws or
regulations.
•ARTICLE 9:
• Those concerned with the design and planning of
a construction project shall take into account the
safety and health of the construction workers in
accordance with national laws, regulations and
practice.

•
•ARTICLE 10:
• National
laws or regulations shall provide that
workers shall have the right and the duty at any
workplace to participate in ensuring safe
working conditions to the extent of their control
over the equipment and methods of work and to
express views on the working procedures
adopted as they may affect safety and health.
•ARTICLE 11:
• National laws or regulations shall provide that
workers shall have the duty to-
• (a) co-operate as closely as possible with their
employer in the application of the prescribed
safety and health measures;
• (b) take reasonable care for their own safety
and health and that of other persons who may
be affected by their acts or omissions at work;
•ARTICLE 11:
• (c) use facilities placed at their disposal and not misuse
anything provided for their own protection or the
protection of others;
• (d) report forthwith to their immediate supervisor, and
to the workers' safety representative where one exists,
any situation which they believe could present a risk,
and which they cannot properly deal with themselves;
• (e) comply with the prescribed safety and health
measures.
•ARTICLE 12:
• 1. National laws or regulations shall provide that a
worker shall have the right to remove himself from
danger when he has good reason to believe that there is
an imminent and serious danger to his safety or health,
and the duty so to inform his supervisor immediately.
• 2. Where there is an imminent danger to the safety of
workers the employer shall take immediate steps to
stop the operation and evacuate workers as
appropriate.
•ARTICLE 13:
• SAFETY OF WORKPLACES
• 1. All appropriate precautions shall be taken to ensure that
all workplaces are safe and without risk of injury to the
safety and health of workers.
• 2. Safe means of access to and egress from all workplaces
shall be provided and maintained, and indicated where
appropriate.
• 3. All appropriate precautions shall be taken to protect
persons present at or in the vicinity of a construction site
from all risks which may arise from such site.
•ARTICLE 14:
• SCAFFOLDS AND LADDERS
• 1. Where work cannot safely be done on or from the
ground or from part of a building or other permanent
structure, a safe and suitable scaffold shall be provided and
maintained, or other equally safe and suitable provision
shall be made.
• 2. In the absence of alternative safe means of access to
elevated working places, suitable and sound ladders shall
be provided. They shall be properly secured against
inadvertent movement.
•ARTICLE 14:
• SCAFFOLDS AND LADDERS
• 3. All scaffolds and ladders shall be
constructed and used in accordance with
national laws and regulations.
• 4. Scaffolds shall be inspected by a competent
person in such cases and at such times as shall
be prescribed by national laws or regulations.
•ARTICLE 15:
• LIFTING APPLIANCES AND GEAR
• 1. Every lifting appliance and item of lifting gear,
including their constituent elements, attachments,
anchorages and supports, shall-
• (a) be of good design and construction, sound
material and adequate strength for the purpose for
which they are used;
• (b) be properly installed and used;
• (c) be maintained in good working order;
•ARTICLE 15:
• (d) be examined and tested by a competent
person at such times and in such cases as shall
be prescribed by national laws or regulations;
the results of these examinations and tests
shall be recorded;
• (e) be operated by workers who have received
appropriate training in accordance with
national laws and regulations.
•ARTICLE 15:
• 2.No person shall be raised, lowered or carried
by a lifting appliance unless it is constructed,
installed and used for that purpose in
accordance with national laws and regulations,
except in an emergency situation in which
serious personal injury or fatality may occur, and
for which the lifting appliance can be safely
used.
•ARTICLE 16:
• TRANSPORT, EARTH-MOVING AND MATERIALS-
HANDLING EQUIPMENT
• 1. All vehicles and earth-moving or materials-handling
equipment shall-
• (a) be of good design and construction taking into account
as far as possible ergonomic principles;
• (b) be maintained in good working order;
• (c) be properly used;
• (d) be operated by workers who have received appropriate
training in accordance with national laws and regulations.
•ARTICLE 16:
• 2. On all construction sites on which vehicles,
earth-moving or materials-handling
equipment are used-
• (a) safe and suitable access ways shall be
provided for them; and
• (b) traffic shall be so organized and
controlled as to secure their safe operation.
•ARTICLE 17:
• PLANT, MACHINERY, EQUIPMENT AND HAND TOOLS
• 1. Plant, machinery and equipment, including
hand tools, both manual and power driven, shall-
• (a) be of good design and construction, taking
into account as far as possible ergonomic
principles;
• (b) be maintained in good working order;
•ARTICLE 17:
• (c) be used only for work for which they
have been designed unless a use outside
the initial design purposes has been
assessed by a competent person who
has concluded that such use is safe;
• (d) be operated by workers who have
received appropriate training.
•ARTICLE 17:
• 2. Adequate instructions for safe use shall be
provided where appropriate by the manufacturer
or the employer, in a form understood by the
users.
• 3. Pressure plant and equipment shall be examined
and tested by a competent person in cases and at
times prescribed by national laws or regulations.
•
•ARTICLE 18:
• WORK AT HEIGHTS INCLUDING ROOFWORK
• 1. Where necessary to guard against danger,
or where the height of a structure or its slope
exceeds that prescribed by national laws or
regulations, preventive measures shall be
taken against the fall of workers and tools or
other objects or materials.
•ARTICLE 18:
• 2. Where workers are required to work on or
near roofs or other places covered with fragile
material, through which they are liable to fall,
preventive measures shall be taken against their
inadvertently stepping on or falling through the
fragile material.

•
•ARTICLE 19:
• EXCAVATIONS, SHAFTS, EARTHWORKS,
UNDERGROUND WORKS AND TUNNELS
• Adequate precautions shall be taken in any
excavation, shaft, earthworks, underground
works or tunnel-
• (a) by suitable shoring or otherwise to guard
against danger to workers from a fall or
dislodgement of earth, rock or other material;
•ARTICLE 19:
• (b) to guard against dangers arising from the fall of
persons, materials or objects or the inrush of water into
the excavation, shaft, earthworks, underground works or
tunnel;
• (c) to secure adequate ventilation at every workplace so
as to maintain an atmosphere fit for respiration and to
limit any fumes, gases, vapours, dust or other impurities
to levels which are not dangerous or injurious to health
and are within limits laid down by national laws or
regulations;
•ARTICLE 19:
• (d) to enable the workers to reach safety in
the event of fire, or an inrush of water or
material;
• (e) to avoid risk to workers arising from
possible underground dangers such as the
circulation of fluids or the presence of pockets
of gas, by undertaking appropriate
investigations to locate them.
•ARTICLE 20:
• COFFERDAMS AND CAISSONS
• 1. Every cofferdam and caisson shall be-
• (a) of good construction and suitable and
sound material and of adequate strength;
• (b) provided with adequate means for
workers to reach safety in the event of an
inrush of water or material.
•ARTICLE 20:
• 2. The construction, positioning, modification
or dismantling of a cofferdam or caisson shall
take place only under the immediate
supervision of a competent person.
• 3. Every cofferdam and caisson shall be
inspected by a competent person at
prescribed intervals.
•ARTICLE 21:
• WORK IN COMPRESSED AIR
• 1. Work in compressed air shall be carried out only in
accordance with measures prescribed by national
laws or regulations.
• 2. Work in compressed air shall be carried out only by
workers whose physical aptitude for such work has
been established by a medical examination and when
a competent person is present to supervise the
conduct of the operations.
•ARTICLE 22:
• STRUCTURAL FRAMES AND FORMWORK
• 1. The erection of structural frames and
components, formwork, falsework and
shoring shall be carried out only under the
supervision of a competent person.
•
•ARTICLE 22:
• 2. Adequate precautions shall be taken to guard
against danger to workers arising from any
temporary state of weakness or instability of a
structure.
• 3. Formwork, falsework and shoring shall be so
designed, constructed and maintained that it
will safely support all loads that may be imposed
on it.
•ARTICLE 23:
• WORK OVER WATER
• Where work is done over or in close proximity
to water there shall be adequate provision for-
• (a) preventing workers from falling into water;
• (b) the rescue of workers in danger of
drowning;
• (c) safe and sufficient transport.
•ARTICLE 24:
• DEMOLITION
• When the demolition of any building or structure
might present danger to workers or to the public-
• (a) appropriate precautions, methods and
procedures shall be adopted, including those for
the disposal of waste or residues, in accordance
with national laws or regulations;
• (b) the work shall be planned and undertaken only
under the supervision of a competent person.
•ARTICLE 25:
• LIGHTING
• Adequate and suitable lighting, including
portable lighting where appropriate,
shall be provided at every workplace and
any other place on the construction site
where a worker may have to pass.
•ARTICLE 26:
• ELECTRICITY
• 1. All electrical equipment and
installations shall be constructed, installed
and maintained by a competent person,
and so used as to guard against danger.
•
•ARTICLE 26:
• 2. Before construction is commenced and during the
progress thereof adequate steps shall be taken to
ascertain the presence of and to guard against
danger to workers from any live electrical cable or
apparatus which is under, over or on the site.
• 3. The laying and maintenance of electrical cables
and apparatus on construction sites shall be
governed by the technical rules and standards
applied at the national level.
•ARTICLE 27:
• EXPLOSIVES
• Explosives shall not be stored, transported, handled
or used except-
• (a) under conditions prescribed by national laws or
regulations; and
• (b) by a competent person, who shall take such
steps as are necessary to ensure that workers and
other persons are not exposed to risk of injury.
•
•ARTICLE 28:
• HEALTH HAZARDS
• 1. Where a worker is liable to be exposed
to any chemical, physical or biological
hazard to such an extent as is liable to be
dangerous to health, appropriate
preventive measures shall be taken against
such exposure.
•ARTICLE 28:
• 2.
The preventive measures referred to in paragraph 1
above shall comprise-
• (a) the replacement of hazardous substances by harmless
or less hazardous substances wherever possible; or
• (b) technical measures applied to the plant, machinery,
equipment or process; or
• (c) where it is not possible to comply with subparagraphs
(a) or (b) above, other effective measures, including the
use of personal protective equipment and protective
clothing.
•ARTICLE 28:
• 3. Where workers are required to enter any area
in which a toxic or harmful substance may be
present, or in which there may be an oxygen
deficiency, or a flammable atmosphere, adequate
measures shall be taken to guard against danger.
• 4. Waste shall not be destroyed or otherwise
disposed of on a construction site in a manner
which is liable to be injurious to health.
•ARTICLE 29:
• FIRE PRECAUTIONS
• 1. The employer shall take all appropriate measures to-
• (a) avoid the risk of fire;
• (b) combat quickly and efficiently any outbreak of
fire;
• (c) bring about a quick and safe evacuation of
persons.
• 2. Sufficient and suitable storage shall be provided for
flammable liquids, solids and gases.
•ARTICLE 30:
• PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND PROTECTIVE
CLOTHING
• 1. Where adequate protection against risk of accident or
injury to health, including exposure to adverse conditions,
cannot be ensured by other means, suitable personal
protective equipment and protective clothing, having
regard to the type of work and risks, shall be provided and
maintained by the employer, without cost to the workers,
as may be prescribed by national laws or regulations.
•ARTICLE 30:
• PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
• 2. The employer shall provide the workers with the
appropriate means to enable them to use the
individual protective equipment, and shall ensure its
proper use.

•
•ARTICLE 30:
• 3. Protective equipment and protective clothing
shall comply with standards set by the
competent authority taking into account as far
as possible ergonomic principles.
• 4. Workers shall be required to make proper use
of and to take good care of the personal
protective equipment and protective clothing
provided for their use.
•ARTICLE 31:
• FIRST AID
• The employer shall be responsible for
ensuring that first aid, including trained
personnel, is available at all times.
Arrangements shall be made for ensuring the
removal for medical attention of workers who
have suffered an accident or sudden illness.
•ARTICLE 32:
• WELFARE
• 1. At or within reasonable access of every
construction site an adequate supply of wholesome
drinking water shall be provided.
• 2. At or within reasonable access of every
construction site, the following facilities shall,
depending on the number of workers and the
duration of the work, be provided and maintained-
• (a) sanitary and washing facilities;
•ARTICLE 32:
• (b) facilities for changing and for the storage
and drying of clothing;
• (c) accommodation for taking meals and for
taking shelter during interruption of work due
to adverse weather conditions.
• 3. Men and women workers should be provided
with separate sanitary and washing facilities.
•ARTICLE 33:
• INFORMATION AND TRAINING
• Workers shall be adequately and suitably-
• (a) informed of potential safety and health hazards
to which they may be exposed at their workplace;
• (b) instructed and trained in the measures
available for the prevention and control of, and
protection against, those hazards.
•
•ARTICLE 34:
• REPORTING OF ACCIDENTS AND DISEASES
• National laws or regulations shall provide for
the reporting to the competent authority
within a prescribed time of occupational
accidents and diseases.

•
•ARTICLE 35:
• Each Member shall-
• (a) take all necessary measures, including the provision of
appropriate penalties and corrective measures, to ensure
the effective enforcement of the provisions of the
Convention;
• (b) provide appropriate inspection services to supervise
the application of the measures to be taken in pursuance
of the Convention and provide these services with the
resources necessary for the accomplishment of their task,
or satisfy itself that appropriate inspection is carried out.
•ARTICLE 36:
• ThisConvention revises the Safety Provisions
(Building) Convention, 1937.

•ARTICLE 37:
• The formal ratifications of this Convention shall
be communicated to the Director-General of
the International Labour Office for registration.
•ARTICLE 38:
• 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those
Members of the International Labour Organisation whose
ratifications have been registered with the Director-
General.
• 2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on
which the ratifications of two Members have been
registered with the Director-General.
• 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any
Member twelve months after the date on which its
ratification has been registered.
•ARTICLE 39:
• 1.A Member which has ratified this Convention
may denounce it after the expiration of ten
years from the date on which the Convention
first comes into force, by an act communicated
to the Director-General of the International
Labour Office for registration. Such
denunciation shall not take effect until one year
after the date on which it is registered.
•ARTICLE 39:
• 2.Each Member which has ratified this Convention
and which does not, within the year following the
expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in
the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of
denunciation provided for in this Article, will be
bound for another period of ten years and,
thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the
expiration of each period of ten years under the
terms provided for in this Article.
•ARTICLE 40:
• 1. The Director-General of the International
Labour Office shall notify all Members of
the International Labour Organization of
the registration of all ratifications and
denunciations communicated to him by the
Members of the Organization.
•
•ARTICLE 40:
• 2.When notifying the members of the
Organisation of the registration of the
second ratification communicated to him,
the Director-General shall draw the
attention of the Members of the
Organization to the date upon which the
Convention will come into force.
•ARTICLE 41:
• TheDirector-General of the International Labour
Office shall communicate to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations for registration in accordance
with Article 102 of the Charter of the United
Nations full particulars of all ratifications and acts of
denunciation registered by him in accordance with
the provisions of the preceding Articles.
•
•ARTICLE 42:
• Atsuch times as it may consider necessary the
Governing Body of the International Labour
Office shall present to the General
Conference a report on the working of this
Convention and shall examine the desirability
of placing on the agenda of the Conference
the question of its revision in whole or in part.
•ARTICLE 43:
Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising this
• 1.

Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention

otherwise provides-
•(a) the ratification by a Member of the new revising
Convention shall ipso jure involve the immediate
denunciation of this Convention, notwithstanding the
provisions of Article 39 above, if and when the new revising
Convention shall have come into force;
•(b) as from the date when the new revising Convention
comes into force this Convention shall cease to be open to
ratification by the Members.
•ARTICLE 43:
•2. This Convention shall in any case remain
in force in its actual form and content for
those Members which have ratified it but
have not ratified the revising Convention.

•
•ARTICLE 44:
• The English and French versions of the text of
this Convention are equally authoritative.