[inglés] Occupational Safety and Health Act of 28 December 1977 Jurisdicción Cuba Ańo 1978 Publicado en espańol, francés, inglés Título original / otro título [francés] Loi du 28 décembre 1977 sur la sécurité et l'hygične du travail [inglés] Occupational Safety and Health Act of 28 December 1977 Fuente [inglés] Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, Divulgación CETSS, La Habana, Cuba, 1978. 11p. Descriptores [Principales] Cuba, seguridad y salud en el trabajo [Secundarios] cambios de puestos de trabajo, duplicados, formación en prevención en la industria, jóvenes, ley, mujeres, papel de las organizaciones de trabajadores, papel de los poderes públicos, recopilación de estadísticas, responsabilidades de los empresarios, responsabilidades de los trabajadores, trabajadores minusválidos Categoría Aspectos generales Resumen [inglés] 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 Número de registro 37917