CONVENTION
CONCERNING OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN DOCK WORK

Convention 152

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 Sixty-fifth Session on 6 June 1979, and

Noting the terms of existing international labour Conventions and Recommendations which are relevant and, in particular, the Marking of Weight (Packages Transported by Vessels) Convention, 1929, the Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963, and the Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention, 1977, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the revision of the Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932 (No. 32), which is the fourth item on the agenda of the session, and

Considering that these proposals must take the form of an international Convention, adopts this twenty-fifth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine the following Convention, which may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health (Dock Work) Convention, 1979: