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5. (1) Periodical meetings should be held by representatives, of the organizations mentioned in the preceding paragraph and representatives of the inspection authority, together with representatives of any other public bodies concerned. (2) The purpose of such meetings should be to examine jointly the methods that might be taken to improve accident-prevention in the building industry. 6, The inspection authority should promote accident-prevention by collaborating with all parties concerned in the necessary propaganda, which might take such forms as safety education by training courses, demonstrations, meetings, lectures, and films, the distribution of manuals, pamphlets, magazines, or publications reproducing or analysing accident statistics ; and. the distribution of posters and notices which should as far as possible be illustrated. Recommendation (No. 56) concerning Vocational Education for the Building Industry. The General Conference of the International Labour Organization, _ Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Twenty-third Session on 3rd June, 1937, and Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to vocational education for the building industry, which is included in the first item on the agenda of the session, and Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a recommendation, adopts, this twenty-third day of June, of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, the following recommendation, which may be cited as the Vocational Education (Building) Recommendation, 1937 : The Conference, Recalling that at its Twelfth Session (1929) it adopted a recommendation concerning the prevention of industrial accidents, one part of which deals with vocational education ; Considering that, in view of the risk of accident, vocational education is of special importance in the case of the building industry ; Recommends that technical and vocational school curricula relating to the building industry should include theoretical and practical instruction concerning— (a) The materials used for the construction of scaffolds and the principles of erecting and maintaining scaffolds ; (b) The construction and maintenance of the hoisting-appliances used in the building industry ; (c) The organization and supervision of safety measures on building-sites ; and (d) The safety regulations for building-work. Resolution concerning Responsibility of Machine-builders, etc., as regards Safety Devices in the Building Industry, submitted by the Committee on Safety in the Building Industry. Whereas the Draft Convention and Recommendations on safety provisions for workers in the building industry with reference to scaffolding and hoisting machinery do not provide for any obligations to be laid upon builders, dealers, and erectors of hoisting appliances used in the building industry, Whereas it is necessary to consider whether it is not desirable that the provisions of the Recommendation adopted by the Twelfth Session of the International Labour Conference in 1929 concerning responsibility for the protection of power-driven machinery should be reinforced by the adoption of an international Convention ; The Twenty-third Session of the International Labour Conference Requests the Governing Body of the International Labour Office to have the necessary investigations undertaken and to place on the agenda of one of the next sessions of the Conference the question of the responsibility of machine-builders, dealers, and erectors as regards safety devices. MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTIONS. First Report of the Resolutions Committee. The Resolutions Committee constituted by the Conference at its Third Sitting met on sth June and elected its officers as follows : — Chairman and Reporter.—Mr. Fabela, Mexican Government Delegate. Vice-Gliairman.—Mr. Harriman, Employers' Delegate of the United States of America ; Mr. Hayday, British Workers' Delegate. The Committee examined the draft resolutions submitted to the Conference in accordance with paragraph 7 of Article 12 of the Standing Orders. In this first report, the Committee submitted to the Conference the conclusions at which it arrived in regard to seven of the draft resolutions which it had to examine. Draft Resolution concerning the Protection of Migrant Persons insured or pensioned wider Social-insurance Schemes, submitted by Mr. Komarnicki, Polish Government Delegate. The Committee, after hearing the author of this draft resolution, decided to transmit it to the Conference. The text of the draft resolution is as follows :— 1. Whereas it is more than ever essential, when a resumption of migratory movements may be expected, to secure to persons insured or pensioned under social-insurance schemes who have to change their country of residence, and likewise to their families, the maintenance of their rights, in course of acquisition or acquired, under such schemes, especially schemes of invalidity, old-age and widows' and orphans' insurance :

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