Occupational Safety and Health Act of 28 December 1977 Jurisdiction Cuba Year 1978 Published in English, French, Spanish Original/other title [French] Loi du 28 décembre 1977 sur la sécurité et l'hygične du travail Source Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, Divulgación CETSS, La Habana, Cuba, 1978. 11p. Descriptors [Primary] Cuba, occupational safety and health [Secondary] compilation of statistics, duplicate, handicapped workers, law, responsibilities of employees, responsibilities of employers, role of government, role of workers' organizations, safety training in industry, transfer to other work, women, young persons Subject category General safety, health and conditions of work Abstract The Act, which partly concerns on-the-job training of workers in OSH, and the role of their trade unions in this field, covers: general principles (scope and objectives); purposes of labour protection and occupational hygiene; planning and financial aspects; immobilisation of plant, machinery and processes or closure of workplaces if a serious accident is imminent or there is a failure to comply with health standards, entailing serious hazards to workers; statistics; supervisory agencies of the Ministries of Education and Higher Education (powers, duties and functions); workers and their trade-union organisation (workers' rights and obligations); special protection (women, young persons, the handicapped); role of management in State and other enterprises; special health protection (workers' right to demand temporary transfer to other work if they consider that there is a hazard to life and limb, or health hazards, due to non-observance of the provisions of the Act); penalties. Additional provision: obligations of private employers. English and French translations of the Act in "International Digest of Health Legislation" (World Health Organization, Geneva) 1982, Vol.33, No.1, p.93-95. Duplicate of CIS 84-1493. CIS No. 82-1190 Database ID 37917