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The Asian Regional Conference, held at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, adopts this 24th ■day of January, 1950, the following resolution : 1. (1) With a view to enabling the labour inspection services to discharge their functions adequately, the Asian members of the Organization should accord to the labour inspectorates a status among the social services of the State commensurate with their responsibilities, and should undertake all appropriate measures to inform employers and workers, and the public in general, of problems arising from working conditions and remedial measures taken or needed, as well as to advise employers and workers in regard to effective means of complying with existing labour legislation. (2) In addition to the customary channels of propaganda and public education, such as the press, radio and films, these measures should include the institution of national health and safety exhibits and museums. (3) These education and propaganda activities should be carried out through the medium of the vernacular of the country and through literature designed to educate the worker and make him acquainted with national laws and regulations. 2. (1) In the absence of voluntary bodies or private organizations to supplement the work of labour inspection services by research in and promotion of improved industrial standards and conditions of work, the Governments should wherever practicable institute national research centres for the study of industrial problems, and should encourage the establishment of joint bodies of employers and workers to co-operate in the task of determining and implementing accepted standards. (2) Such bodies may be organized, as appropriate, on a plant or industry basis, or on a regional or national basis. 3. In order to ensure that labour inspection services are staffed with officials fully -competent to carry out the duties of the service, appropriate steps should be taken to secure the training of new inspectors upon their admission to the service and to keep labour inspectors fully informed of latest developments in respect of industrial problems «of health, safety and welfare by means of technical training centres, refresher courses for inspectors and periodical conference of inspectors. 4. Appropriate arrangements should be made to promote direct collaboration between officials of labour inspection services and employers and workers or their •organizations. 5. (1) With a view to enabling countries in an early phase of economic development progressively to give full effect to the foregoing recommendations, the possibilities of international or regional arrangements in these matters, when and where appropriate, should be fully explored. (2) Arrangements might be concluded, for example, whereby inspection officials of less developed services would be sent for training to other countries with more adequate training courses and facilities in the region or outside the region. (3) The fullest consideration should also be given to the possibility of making arrangements among the Asian countries to establish one or more regional centres for the training of labour inspectors. (4) In addition, the possibility of encouraging technical Missions from abroad to assist Asian countries in the organization of their inspection services should be considered. 6. (1) Having regard to the expansion and development of social and labour legislation in the Asian countries, the authorities concerned should keep under constant review the need for ensuring that the numerical strength of inspection services and the facilities at their disposal are adequate to the tasks they have to perform. (2) The inspection services should include an adequate number of women inspectors. 7. Since adequate statistical data are an essential aid in the enforcement of labour and social legislation, appropriate provision should be made in the organization of Labour Departments so as to enable them to discharge their functions of collecting basic labour .statistics.

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