Chairperson, this convention on the work in the fishing sector contains provisions designed to ensure that workers in this sector have improved occupational health and safety and medical care at sea and that sick and injured fishers receive care ashore. Also, they have to receive sufficient rest for their health and safety, protection of work agreements and the same social security protection as their counterworkers.
Its provisions are aimed at ensuring that fishing vessels are constructed and maintained so that workers at sea have living conditions on board that reflect the long periods they often spend at sea.
The convention also puts in place the mechanism to ensure compliance with enforcement of its provisions by states and provides that large fishing vessels on extended voyages may be subjected to inspections in foreign ports to ensure that the fishers on board do not work under conditions that are hazardous to their health and safety.
As the Portfolio Committee on Labour, we therefore put this report before this House to approve the convention on conditions at sea.
There was no debate.
Work in the Fishing Sector Convention, 2007 (No 188) approved.