COORDINADORA DE SINDICATOS BANANEROS Y AGROINDUSTRIALES DE HONDURAS

Conventions ratified by Honduras

Convention on Weekly Rest (Industry), 1921 (No. 14)

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1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term industrial undertaking:

a) mines, quarries and extraction of any kind;

b) industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, or in which materials are transformed, including shipbuilding, demolition industries and production, processing and transmission of electricity or any kind of driving force;

c) construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration or demolition of buildings and structures of all kinds, railways, trams, ports, warehouses, docks, canals, inland navigation facilities, roads, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, sewers collector sewers ordinary, well, telegraphic or telephone, electrical, gas work, water or other construction work and the preparation and foundation work prior to such work;

d) transport of passengers or goods by road, rail or inland waterway, including the handling of goods at docks, wharves and warehouses, but excluding transport by hand.

2. The listing above is subject to the special national exceptions provided for in the Washington Convention, which limits the hours of work in industrial undertakings to eight hours per day and forty-eight week, to the extent that these exceptions are applicable to this Agreement.

3. In addition to the above list if deemed necessary, each member may determine the line of demarcation between industry, on the one hand, and trade and agriculture.

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1. Subject to the exceptions provided in the following articles, all personnel employed in any industrial undertaking, public or private, or its dependencies, shall enjoy, in every period of seven days of rest comprising at least twenty-four consecutive hours.

2. This rest will be granted at the same time, whenever possible, to all employees of each company.

3. The coincide, wherever possible, with the days established by the traditions or customs of the country or region.

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Each Member may waive the provisions of Article 2 of the persons employed in industrial undertakings in which only employees are members of one family.

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1. Each Member may authorize total or partial exceptions (including suspensions or diminutions) from the provisions of Article 2, especially taking into account any relevant considerations of an economic and humanitarian and after consultation with associations of employers and workers, when these associations exist.

2. Such consultation shall not be required in case of exceptions which have already been granted by the legislation.

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Each Member shall, wherever possible, provision for rest periods to compensate for the suspensions or diminutions granted under Article 4, except in cases where agreements or customs already provide for such periods have.

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1. Each member will prepare a list of exemptions granted under Articles 3 and 4 of this Convention, inform the International Labor Office, and thereafter communicate every two years, any changes that it has entered into this list .

2. The International Labor Office will report on this matter to the General Conference of the International Labor Organization.

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To facilitate the implementation of the provisions of this Convention, each employer, director or manager shall be required:

a) where the weekly rest is given to all staff together to share the days and hours of collective rest by means of notices posted conspicuously visible in the establishment or other convenient place, or under any other form approved by the government;

b) when the rest is not granted to all staff together to give, to know through a register kept in the form approved by the country's legislation or regulations of the competent authority, the workers or employees subject to a special regime of rest, and indicate the regime.

Convention of Weight Packages Transported by Vessels, 1929 (No. 27)

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1. Any package or object whose gross weight is one thousand kilograms (one metric ton) or more, as within the territory of a Member which ratifies this Convention and which has to be transported by sea or inland waterway, it should have marked its weight in its outer surface in a clear and durable.

2. National legislation may allow an approximate weight in those exceptional cases where it is difficult to determine the exact weight.

3. The obligation for the enforcement of this provision shall be restricted to the government of the country where the bundle is issued and not to the governments of countries that can pass through to reach your destination.

4. It is for national legislation to determine whether the obligation to indicate the weight of as aforesaid shall fall on the person or another.

Forced Labor Convention, 1930 (No. 29)

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1. Any member of the International Labor Organization which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress, as soon as possible, the use of forced or compulsory labor in all its forms.

2. With a view to this complete suppression, forced labor may be used during the transitional period, solely for public purposes and on an exceptional basis, subject to the conditions and guarantees hereinafter provided.

3. At the expiration of five years from the entry into force of this Convention and where the Governing Body of the International Labor Office to prepare the report referred to in Article 31, the Council will consider the possibility to delete further delay the forced or compulsory labor in all its forms and the desirability of placing this issue on the agenda of the Conference.

Protection Convention Dockers against Accidents (Revised), 1932 (No. 32)

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For the purposes of this Convention:

1) The term operation means and includes all or part of the work performed on land or on board for the loading or unloading of any vessel engaged in maritime or inland navigation, with the exception of naval vessels at any port or internal any dock, wharf or similar place where such work is carried and

2) the term worker means any person engaged in such operations.

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1. All access roads that pass through a regular dock, wharf, pier or other similar place and that workers have to use to reach the place of work where operations are conducted or to return it, as well as all workplaces located on land shall be maintained in a state that ensures the safety of workers who use them.

2. In particular:

1) all workplaces on the ground and all dangerous parts of the roads mentioned, these sites to communicate with the nearest public highway, shall be provided with efficient lighting that does not offer any danger;

2) the docks and landings must be sufficiently clear of goods to maintain a clear passage to the means of access referred to in Article 3;

3) when you leave a step along the edge of the wharf or landing, shall have a width of 90 cm. (3 feet), at least, must be free of all obstacles that are not fixed structures, devices or machines in use;

4) so far as practicable having regard to the traffic and service:

a) all dangerous parts of the access roads and work places (eg openings, dangerous corners and edges) shall be adequately fenced to a height of not less than 75 cm. (2 feet 6 inches);

b) the steps on dangerous bridges, caissons and gates of the dams shall be provided on both sides and to a height not less than 75 cm. (2 feet 6 inches) of rails whose ends extend a sufficient length that it will not exceed 4.50 m. (5 yards);

5) are satisfied the conditions of the measurement requirements of paragraph 4) above, in regard to the appliances in use at the date of ratification of this Convention, if the figures are after making accurate measurement not more than 10 percent to those mentioned in paragraph 4).

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1. When a ship is at anchor near a wharf or another vessel in order to conduct business, be made available to workers access means providing security guarantees to go to the ship and return it, unless circumstances permit to do so without risk of accidents, regardless of special constructions.

2. These means of access shall be:

a) a bridge or similar construction in the ship's accommodation ladder, where reasonably practicable;

b) in other cases a ladder.

3. The buildings specified in paragraph 2 a) of this section shall have a width of 55 cm. (22 inches), at least, shall be firmly secured so that they can not shift, its inclination will not be very sharp and the materials used in its construction must be of good quality and in good condition, and on both sides and throughout its length must be fitted with a handrail effective a clear height of 82 cm. (2 feet 9 inches), at least, or if it is the scale of a handrail in the same effective height to one side, provided that the other is effectively protected by the wall of the vessel. However, all constructions of this kind are in use at the date of ratification of this Convention may continue to be used:

a) if they are fitted on both sides of a rail of a clear height of 80 cm. (2 feet 8 inches), at least until they are renewed;

b) they are fitted on either side of a railing of a clear height of 75 cm. (2 feet 6 inches), for at least two years after the ratification of this Convention.

4. The scale referred to in paragraph 2 b) of this Article shall be of sufficient length, strength and proper properly secured.

a) The competent authority may grant exceptions to the provisions of this article if they deem that the constructions above are not required for the safety of workers.

b) The provisions of this Article shall not apply to the platforms or walkways load when used exclusively for the operations.

6. Workers shall not use or be required to use more media access than specified or authorized by this article.

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Where, by reason of the workers have to cross a stretch of water to go to a ship or the processes, appropriate measures shall be to ensure their safe transport, and even determine the eligibility boats used for this purpose.

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1. When workers have to carry out operations in bays with a depth of more than 1.50 m. (5 feet) above the deck level, must be made available means of access that provide guarantees for their safety.

2. These means of access shall be generally in a scale, but it is only deemed to have guarantees of security:

a) if you offer support for the feet where the depth, including any space behind the scale is 11.50 cm. (4 and half inches), at least, and the width of 25 cm. (10 inches), at least, and if you have a firm handhold;

b) is not under the deck more than is reasonably necessary to keep it clear of the hatchway;

c) if it is provided over its entire length and along its line of devices, placed on the coamings of the hatches, offering strong support to the feet and hands (eg Tojin or handles);

d) If the devices listed in the preceding paragraph provide support for the feet where the depth, including any space behind these devices, is 11.50 cm. (4 and half inches), at least, and the width of 25 cm. (10 inches), at least;

e) If in case there are separate scales from the lower decks they are as far as possible in line with the scales from the top deck. However, when given the ship's construction, can not logically require the installation of a scale, the competent authorities shall be empowered to authorize other means of access, provided that they meet, wherever possible, the conditions prescribed for scales for this article. In existing ships in the ratification of this Convention, and until you replace the scales and devices are considered to be satisfied the conditions of the measurement requirements in paragraphs a) and d) of this paragraph, if the figures are after to an exact measurement is not more than 10 percent of those listed in paragraphs a) and d).

3. It should leave enough free space around the coamings of the hatches so that they can achieve the means of access.

4. The Shaft tunnels shall be provided on both sides of handles and stirrups adequate.

5. When a scale used in the hold of a ship without a roof, the contractor must provide the operations of this scale, which will be at the top with hooks or other means for firmly securing.

6. Workers shall not use or be required to use more media access than specified or authorized by this article.

7. Existing vessels in the ratification of this Convention shall be exempt from the conditions imposed by the dimension provisions of paragraph 2 a) and b), and the requirements of paragraph 4 of this Article for a period of four years, as maximum from the date of ratification.

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1. While the workers are on the ship to conduct operations, all hatch into the hold of goods accessible to workers, whose depth measured from the level of the deck to the bottom of the hold exceeds 1.50 m. (5 feet) and that is not protected to a clear height of 75 cm. (2 feet 6 inches), at least for the coamings when not being used for the passage of goods, coal and other materials, must have a railing around it effective to a height of 90 cm. (3 feet). National law will decide whether the requirements of this paragraph shall be enforced during meal times and other short interruptions of work.

2. If necessary, should take similar measures to protect all other openings in a deck that can present a hazard to workers.

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1. Where operations have to be carried aboard a vessel, means of access thereto and all parts of the ship in which workers are employed or to which they may be at work, shall be adequately lighted.

2. The means of lighting shall be such so as not to endanger the safety or impede the navigation of other vessels.

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To ensure the safety of workers while engaged in removing or replacing hatch coverings and beams that are used to cover:

1) hatch and beams are used to cover must be maintained in good condition;

2) hatch handles must have proportionate to their size and weight, unless the construction of the hatch or the hatch make it unnecessary to use these handles;

3) the beams; to be used to cover the hatches to be fitted with suitable devices for removing or replacing, so that workers do not have to climb on the beams; to fix these devices;

4) all hatch beams;, unless they can be exchanged, shall be clearly marked to indicate the deck and hatch to which they belong, and their position in it;

5) hatch may not be used for the construction of the pallets used in cargo operations, or for any other purpose which may deteriorate.

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1. Appropriate measures be taken to hoisting machines and all the useful accessories, fixed or mobile, are not used for operations on shore or on board, but they can operate safely.

2. Especially:

1) Before putting into service of such machinery, tools on board set to consider national legislation and its accessories, and metal chains and cables, whose use is related to the operation thereof shall be inspected and tested in accordance with the conditions prescribed by a competent person acceptable to national authorities, and the load thereof on a certificate.

2) After being taken into use, any hoisting machine used on shore or on board, and all the tools on board to set national legislation considered as accessories, will carefully examine or inspect the following manner:

a) be thoroughly examined every four years and checked every twelve months: the cornerstones of load and hoop wrapped pins, hooks and splice, and any other useful brazalotes Fixed whose removal is particularly difficult;

b) be thoroughly examined every twelve months: All hoisting machines (eg cranes and winches) and winches, cranks, and other useful accessories that are not included in subparagraph a). All loose gear (eg chains, wire ropes, rings, hooks) are inspected after each use unless the they have been inspected within the last three months. Chains must not be shortened by knots, and precautions must be taken in order to avoid deterioration by friction from sharp edges. The adjustments of splice or wire ropes shall have at least three passes in his entire empulgueras out with a cable and two passes with half the wires cut in each place. However, this requirement shall not operate to prevent the use of another form of splice efficiency as obvious as prescribed.

3) Chains and similar tools specified by national law (eg hooks, shackles, swivels), unless they have been subjected to such other treatment as may be prescribed by law, must in intemperate conditions following, under the supervision of a competent person acceptable to the national authorities:

a) Chain and tools mentioned above, who are aboard the vessel: i) channels and tools 12.5 mm. (half inch) or less, for use once every six months, ii) all other chains and use tools (including the chain of lovers, but excluding the OSTS ramalillos subject to the props or load mast), once every twelve months. However, in the case of tools used exclusively in this type cranes and other lifting machines at hand, the term referred to in paragraph i) shall be twelve months instead of six, and the period prescribed in subsection ii) shall be two years instead of one. Similarly, if the competent authority, because of the size, design, materials, or just use all the tools mentioned above, that compliance with the requirements of this paragraph as andalusia are not necessary for the protection of workers, the authority may by a written certificate (which may be revoked if it deems appropriate), these useful exempt from the application of these provisions, subject to such conditions as may be determined in the certificate.

b) Chains and tools mentioned above, not on board: We will take steps to secure the chains of these useful.

c) Chains and tools mentioned above, whether or not on board: The chains and tools that have been lengthened, altered or repaired weld shall be tested and inspected again.