R032 - Power-driven Machinery Recommendation, 1929

 Adoption: Geneva, 12nd ILC session (21 Jun 1929)

[Withdrawn instrument - By decision of the International Labour Conference at its 92nd Session (2004)]

Preamble

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.