1985, Labour Inspection: Table of Contents


Description:(General Survey)
Convention:C081
Convention:C129
Recommendation:R081
Recommendation:R082
Recommendation:R133
Subject classification: Labour Inspection
Document:(Report III Part 4B)
Session of the Conference:71
Subject: Labour Administration and Inspection
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Document No. (ilolex): 251985G01

Table of Contents

Paragraphs

Introduction 1-22

Background to the survey 1-4

Standard-setting activities 5-9

Subject-matter of the instruments covered

by the general survey 10-12

Other activities 13-15

Ratification of Conventions Nos. 81 and 129 16-18

Available information 19-20

Arrangement of the survey 21-22

Chapter I. Objectives, methods and scope

of labour inspection 23-58

I. Objectives 23-27

II. Methods of application 28-30

III. Scope 31-58

A. The 1947 instruments 31-45

National practice 36-45

B. The 1969 instruments 46-58

National practice 52-58

Chapter II. The role of the labour inspectorate 59-108

I. Functions relating to the application of legislation 60-81

A. Enforcement of legal provisions 60-73

(a) Legal provisions relating to conditions

of work and the protection of workers 60-71

(b) Other legal provisions 72-73

B. Information and advice for employers and workers 74-78

C. Notification of the shortcomings of existing

legal provisions 79-81

II. Preventive function 82-97

A. Prevention of occupational accidents and diseases 82-91

(a) Notification of occupational

accidents and diseases 84-88

(b) Investigation of occupational

accidents and diseases 89-91

B. Prior control of new establishments, plant,

substances and processes 92-97

III. Other functions entrusted to the labour

inspection services 99-108

A. Functions in the field of labour relations 99-103

(a) Settlement of disputes 99-102

(b) Participation in collective bargaining 103

B. Activities of an economic nature 104-105

C. Subsidiary administrative functions 106-108

Chapter III. Organisation of labour inspection

services and inspection staff 109-155

I. Organisation of labour inspection 109-126

Administrative structures 109-126

(a) Principle of the control of labour

inspection services by a central authority 109-112

(b) National practice 113-120

(c) Collaboration between the different

inspection services 121-126

II. Collaboration of the labour inspectorate

with other institutions 127-135

III. Inspection staff 136-155

A. Status and conditions of service 136-148

(a) Status 136-140

(b) Conditions of service 141-148

B. Recruitment and training of inspectors 149-155

(a) Recruitment 150-153

(b) Training 154-155

Chapter IV. Powers and obligations of labour inspectors 156-203

I. Inspection powers 156-191

A. Supervisory powers 157-178

(a) Right of free entry 157-168

(i) Establishments officially subject to

supervision by the labour inspectorate 157-164

(ii) Other premises 165

(iii) Private home of the operator

of the undertaking 166-167

(iv) Guarantee of the right of free entry 168

(b) The right of free inspection 169-178

(i) Interrogation 170

(ii) Inspection of documents 171-172

(iii) Enforcement of the posting of notices 173-174

(iv) Inspection of materials and

substances used 175-178

B. Powers of injunction 179-191

(a) Formal notice with immediate effect 181-183

(b) Formal notice with a time-limit 184-185

(c) Appeals against inspectors' decisions 186-187

(d) Notifying the employer and

workers' representatives 188-191

II. Obligations of inspectors 192-203

A. Detachment 193-197

B. Professional secrecy 198-200

C. Discretion as to the source of complaints 201-203

Chapter V. Means of action available to the

labour inspection services 204-252

I. Size of the labour inspection staff 211-215

II. Composition of staff 216-226

III. Material means at the disposal of

inspection services 227

A. Offices, equipment and documentation 228-232

B. Transport 233-234

IV. Inspection visits 235-252

Chapter VI. Proceedings and penalties 253-267

I. Choice of the action to be taken in

the event of non-compliance 254-256

II. The initiation of proceedings 257-259

III. Penalties 260-267

Chapter VII. Reports from labour inspection services 268-281

I. Periodical reports from labour inspectors 268-271

II. Reports of the central inspection authority 272-281

A. Basic objectives 272-273

B. National practice 274-281

(a) Publication of reports 274-276

(b) Form of the reports 277-278

(c) Content of the annual inspection reports 279-281

Chapter VIII. The role of employers' and

workers' organisations in inspection 282-295

I. Collaboration between the labour inspection services

and employers, workers and their organisations 283-292

A. Collaboration within the undertaking 284-291

B. Collaboration outside the undertaking 292

II. Association of workers in the exercise

of inspection functions 293-295

Chapter IX. Ratification: difficulties and prospects 296-317

I. Difficulties 297-310

A. Convention No. 81 297-302

B. Convention No. 129 303-310

II. Ratification prospects 311-317

A. Conventions Nos. 81 and 129 312-313

B. Convention No. 81 314

C. Convention No. 129 315-317

Chapter X. Conclusions 318-332
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