Summary/citation: Any employer or his/her representative, broker or contractor must adopt and implement in the workplace, appropriate measures to protect the health and safety and the body integrity of its workers and especially with regard to:
- operations and work processes.
- supply, use and maintenance of personal protective equipment.
- buildings, facilities and environmental conditions, and
- placement and maintenance of safety shields on machines and all kinds of facilities.
It is also an obligation of the employer to maintain in good conditions and use the machinery, equipment and supplies.
(Reglamento General sobre Higiene y Seguridad en el Trabajo, §§ 4(a),(b),(c),(d), 5(a))
Every employer is required to take the effective precautions to protect life,
safety and health of workers. To this end the employer is required, among others duties, to:
- Adopt the necessary measures in order to prevent accidents, ensuring that the machinery, equipment and operations have the highest degree of safety and remain in good condition, operation and use. In this regard the machinery, equipment and operations have to be subject to permanent inspection and maintenance;
- Provide a healthy work environment;
- Place and maintain safeguards and protections to machines and facilities, to prevent that a risk caused by them may arise for workers;
- Warn the worker of the dangers to their health and
integrity arising from the work;
(Decreto núm. 1441, por el que se promulga el texto modificado del Código de Trabajo, § 197(a),(d),(f),(g))
• Decreto núm. 1441, por el que se promulga el texto modificado del Código de Trabajo (§ 197(a),(d),(f),(g))
• Reglamento General sobre Higiene y Seguridad en el trabajo. (§§ 4(a),(b),(c),(d), 5(a))
