§ 57. Mr. Harold Walkerasked the Minister of Labour if he will take steps to implement the recent International Labour Organisation recommendation that the maximum permissible load carried by an adult male worker should be 88 pounds.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsNo recommendations have been made by the I.L.O. on maximum permissible weights to be carried by one worker. A Preparatory Technical Conference of the I.L.O. was held in January this year, which recommended that there should be international instruments covering maximum permissible weights, which in the case of an adult male worker should be 50 kilogrammes (i.e. 112 1b.). The Report of this Conference will be considered at the Fifty-First Session of the International Labour Conference in June 1967.