Health and Safety at Work - Industrial Medical Services and Occupational Health and Safety Services. Equivalent numbers of workers. Repeal of Titles II and VIII of Annex I of Decree 351/79 Jurisdiction Argentina Year 1996 Published in Spanish Original/other title [Spanish] Higiene y Seguridad en el Trabajo - Servicios de Medicina y de Higiene y Seguridad en el Trabajo. Trabajadores equivalentes. Deróganse los Títulos II y VIII del Anexo I del Decreto Nş351/79 [Argentina] Serial title Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina Source 28 Nov. 1996, Year 104, p.4-5. Serial number Decreto 1338/96 Descriptors [Primary] Argentina, plant health services, plant safety and health organization [Secondary] law Subject category Occupational medicine, epidemiology Abstract This Decree dated 25 Nov. 1996 imposes the obligation on employers to provide an industrial medical service and an occupational health and safety service to their employees. These services may be internal or external to the enterprise. The number of "medical hours" and "OSH service hours" per week made available to the workers depends on the number of "equivalent workers" (EWs), defined as the total number of production workers plus 50% of the number of administrative workers. The number of safety officials also depends on the number of EWs. Certain activities are excluded from the obligations imposed by this Decree: agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing (with up to 15 workers); temporary agricultural workplaces; establishments entirely devoted to administration (with up to 200 workers); medical services; education (if there are no workshops); automobile repair shops (up to 5 workers); entertainment (<3 workers). CIS No. 97-720 Database ID 69018