Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - Myanmar (Ratification: 1957)

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With reference to its previous direct request, the Committee notes the lists (a) and (b) of occupational diseases in schedule 3 to the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1923 appended to the Government’s report. The Government states that although factory managers are responsible for reporting statistics on occupational diseases to the government department concerned (sections 53 and 54 of the Factories Act of 1951), these diseases are difficult to detect as they may take a long time to appear and are revealed only after a proper medical check-up and treatment. The Government however will endeavour to collect the statistics on occupational diseases through the Occupational Health Department of the Ministry of Health and more effective reporting on such diseases by factory inspectors. The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to strengthen the supervision and enforcement measures with regard to the determination and reporting of the cases of occupational diseases. In the meantime, the Committee asks the Government to specify in its next report the number of workers employed in the industries or trades mentioned in the lists (a) and (b) in schedule 3 to the Workmen’s Compensation Act and the number of diseases or poisonings that have been registered in the enterprises concerned.