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Tajikistan - 2013

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1 Description of national OSH regulatory framework
- 1.1 Description of OSH regulatory framework
  Summary/citation: The Labour Code of May 15, 1997 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of May 19, 2009 are the main occupational safety and health laws of Tajikistan. The Labour Code establishes state guarantees of labour rights of citizens and is aimed at ensuring respect for the legitimate interests of workers, employers and the state. Chapter 11 of the Labour Code is dedicated to occupational safety and health. The OSH Act supplements the occupational safety and health provisions of the Labour Code and provides the legal framework for the regulation of relations in the field of occupational safety and health between employers and workers. The powers and rights of state labour inspectors are laid down in Article 25 of the OSH Act. Legal provisions on protection of workers from specific occupational hazards are contained in various separate legislative enactments such as: the "Act on Production and Safe Handling of Pesticides and Agrochemicals”, the "Act on Radiation Safety”, the "Act on Counteraction to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome”, or the "Act on Fire Safety”. The Code on Administrative Offences and the Penal Code of Tajikistan provide for adequate penalties for violations of the laws and regulations concerning occupational safety and health.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety.
  • Law No. 455 of 31 December 2008 to adopt and implement the Code of Administrative Offences.
  • Act of the Republic of Tajikistan on Fire Safety, No. 363 of March 20, 2008
  • Act of the Republic of Tajikistan on Counteraction to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, No. 150 of December 28, 2005
  • Act No. 42 of 1 August 2003 on radiation security (Text No. 465).
  • Act No. 1 of 22 April 2003 on production and secure handling of pesticides and agro-chemicals (Text No. 131).
  • Penal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan of 21 May 1998.
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417).
2 Scope, coverage and exclusions
- 2.1 Health and safety covers physical and psychological health
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 2.2 Definition of worker
  Summary/citation: The hired worker is an individual maintaining labour relations with the employer on the basis of the signed employment agreement (contract).
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 15, Para. 4)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 2.2.1 Coverage of particular categories of workers
    Sometimes.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    - 2.2.1.1 Migrant workers
      Summary/citation: Foreign citizens and stateless persons working in the undertakings of the Republic of Tajikistan, are covered by the scope of the legislation on occupational safety and health of the Republic of Tajikistan, unless otherwise provided by an international agreement.
      • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 3, Para. 3)
      Related CEACR Comments
      • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    - 2.2.1.2 Domestic workers
      Remarks / comments: Domestic workers are not explicitly excluded from the definition of worker.
      • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 15, Para. 4)
      Related CEACR Comments
      • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    - 2.2.1.3 Home workers
      Remarks / comments: Home workers are not explicitly excluded from the definition of worker.
      • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 15, Para. 4)
      Related CEACR Comments
      • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
      • Home Work Convention, 1996 (No. 177) Direct Request 2021
    - 2.2.1.4 Self-employed persons
      Remarks / comments: Self-employed workers are excluded from coverage by the definition of worker.
      • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 15, Para. 4)
- 2.3 Definition of employer
  Summary/citation: Employer is an appropriate body of the state power, a legal entity, and also its representations and branches, and the individual who according to legislation has the right to conclude and terminate an employment agreement (contract) with a worker.
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 15, Para. 3)
- 2.4 Exclusion of branches of economic activity
  No.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 2.4.1 Agriculture
    Summary/citation: The OSH legislation exempts no sectors/branches of economic activity.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 2.4.2 Construction
    Summary/citation: The OSH legislation exempts no sectors/branches of economic activity.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 2.4.3 Services
    Summary/citation: The OSH legislation exempts no sectors/branches of economic activity.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 2.4.4 Public sector
    Summary/citation: The OSH legislation exempts no sectors/branches of economic activity.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 2.4.5 Other
    No data available.
- 2.5 Definition of occupational accident
  No data available.
- 2.6 Definition of occupational disease
  No data available.
  - 2.6.1 List of occupational diseases
    No data available.
  - 2.6.2 Mechanism for compensating other diseases as occupational ones
    No data available.
3 Institutions and programmes relating to OSH administration and/or enforcement
- 3.1 Competent national authority for safety and health at work
  Summary/citation: In order to pursue a standard national policy in the field of occupational safety and health, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan shall create an authorized National Agency on Occupational Safety and Health.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 7)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 3.1.1 Objectives, roles and/or functions
    Summary/citation: The powers of the authorized National Agency on Occupational Safety and Health shall include the coordination of activities of ministries and agencies in the field of occupational safety and health.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 7)
  - 3.1.2 Chairperson and composition
    No data available.
- 3.2 National OSH research programme or institute
  No data available.
  - 3.2.1 Objectives, roles and/or functions
    No data available.
  - 3.2.2 Governance board constitution and chairmanship
    No data available.
  - 3.2.3 Source of funding
    No data available.
- 3.3 National OSH programme
  Summary/citation: In order to ensure the rights of workers to occupational safety and health, the State guarantees the design and implementation of national target programs on occupational safety and health, aimed at improving the working conditions and promotion of safety in workplaces.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 14)
  - 3.3.1 Consultation on the national OSH programme
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
4 Employers’ duties and responsibilities to protect the safety and health of workers and others
- 4.1 Duty to ensure the health and safety of employees
  Summary/citation: The duty to ensure occupational safety and health in the undertaking is mandatory for the employer.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 18, Para.1)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 4.2 Duty to protect the health and safety of people other than their own employees
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 4.3 Collaboration among two or more employers at the same workplace
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 4.4 Surveillance of workers’ health in relation to work
  Summary / Citation: The employer has the duty to organize compulsory preliminary medical examination at the conclusion of an employment agreement (contract) and compulsory periodic medical examinations in the course of work of workers engaged in hard works with harmful or hazardous working conditions, including at underground and night works, and also at works associated with movement of transports, in order to determine the suitability of their health for the performed work and prevent occupational diseases.
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 146)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 4.4.1 Specific hazards for which surveillance is required
    Summary / Citation: The employer has the duty to organize compulsory preliminary medical examination at the conclusion of an employment agreement (contract) and compulsory periodic medical examinations in the course of work of workers engaged in hard works with harmful or hazardous working conditions, including at underground and night works, and also at works associated with movement of transports, in order to determine the suitability of their health for the performed work and prevent occupational diseases.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 146)
- 4.5 Surveillance of the working environment and working practices
  Summary / Citation: The employer has the duty to ensure appropriate safe working conditions and occupational safety and health in every workplace, as well as the safety of workers operating in buildings, installations, with equipment and raw products and materials used in the production, and workers executing technological processes.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 18, Para. 2)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 4.6 Duty to provide personal protective equipment
  Summary / Citation: The employer has the duty to provide the workers engaged in works with harmful and dangerous working conditions, as well as the works performed in adverse conditions of temperature or related to pollution, with special clothing, special footwear, and other personal protective equipment and means of hygiene, at no cost, according to established norms. Storage, washing, disinfection, deactivation and repair of special clothing, special footwear and other personal protective equipment provided to workers are responsibility of the employer.
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 148)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Observation 2016
  • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Direct Request 2020
- 4.7 Duty to ensure the usage of personal protective equipment
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 4.8 Duty to provide first-aid and welfare facilities
  Yes.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 4.8.1 Arrangements for first-aid
    Summary / Citation: Depending on the activity of the enterprise and taking into account the needs of workers, the employer has the duty to provide at the workplace stations for first medical aid in case of accident or to serve workers who become ill at workplace.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 153)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 4.8.2 Sanitary installations
    Summary / Citation: Depending on the activity of the enterprise and taking into account the needs of workers, the employer has the duty to provide sanitary welfare facilities at the enterprise such as dressing rooms, showers, and rooms for personal hygiene of women.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 153)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Observation 2016
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Direct Request 2020
  - 4.8.3 Drinking water
    Summary / Citation: Depending on the activity of the enterprise and taking into account the needs of workers, the employer has the duty to provide workers with drinking water.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 153)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Observation 2016
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Direct Request 2020
  - 4.8.4 Rest and eating areas
    Summary / Citation: Depending on the activity of the enterprise and taking into account the needs of workers, the employer has the duty to organize the provision of food to workers and to equip the enterprise with rest rooms (special places for removal of excessive physical and mental fatigue).
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 153)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
5 Employers’ duty to organize prevention formally along generally accepted OSH management principles and practices
- 5.1 Elements of an OSH management system
  Sometimes.
  - 5.1.1 Policy or plan specifying responsibilities and arrangements for health and safety
    Summary/citation: The employer shall ensure undertaking periodic, at least once in five years, attestations of workplaces concerning working conditions with subsequent certification on occupational safety and health in the undertaking. Attestation of workplaces on working conditions is the system of record, analysis and comprehensive assessment at a concrete workplace of all factors of the working environment, difficulty and intensity of the work process, affecting the performance and health of the worker in the course of work.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 18, Para. 2 and Art. 1)
  - 5.1.2 Appointment of a person for health and safety
    No data available.
  - 5.1.3 Written risk assessment
    Summary/citation: The employer shall ensure undertaking periodic, at least once in five years, attestations of workplaces concerning working conditions with subsequent certification on occupational safety and health in the undertaking. Attestation of workplaces on working conditions is the system of record, analysis and comprehensive assessment at a concrete workplace of all factors of the working environment, difficulty and intensity of the work process, affecting the performance and health of the worker in the course of work.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 18, Para. 2 and Art. 1)
  - 5.1.4 Safe operating work systems and procedures
    Summary/citation: The employer has the duty to ensure appropriate safe working conditions and occupational safety and health in every workplace, as well as the safety of workers operating in buildings, installations, with equipment and raw products and materials used in the production, and workers executing technological processes.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 18, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 5.1.5 Training and information on risks
    Summary/citation: At admission of a worker to a job, the employer shall specify in the employment agreement (contract) true indicators and characteristics of working conditions, privileges and compensations for dangerous and harmful working conditions, personal protective equipment, the possibility of an occupational disease, and penalties to the employer and the worker for non-compliance with the requirements of occupational safety and health stipulated in the employment agreement (contract).
    The employer shall provide workers with training regarding the use of safe methods and techniques of work execution, instruction in occupational safety and health, and a trainee course at workplaces and test their knowledge of requirements concerning occupational safety and health.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 9, Para. 2 and Art.. 18, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 5.1.6 Review or assessment of the results of preventive measures
    Summary/citation: The employer shall ensure undertaking periodic, at least once in five years, attestations of workplaces concerning working conditions with subsequent certification on occupational safety and health in the undertaking. Attestation of workplaces on working conditions is the system of record, analysis and comprehensive assessment at a concrete workplace of all factors of the working environment, difficulty and intensity of the work process, affecting the performance and health of the worker in the course of work.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 18, Para. 2 and Art. 1)
  - 5.1.7 Consultation with workers in health and safety
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 5.2 Obligation to implement a specific OSH management system or standard
  No data available.
6 Employers’ duty to ensure availability of expertise and competence in health and safety
- 6.1 OSH competence
  Sometimes.
  - 6.1.1 Requirement to access expert advice and/or support in health and safety
    Summary / Citation: To organize occupational safety and health in an undertaking with more than 100 workers, an occupational safety and health service, subordinated directly to the chief manager of the undertaking, shall be set up.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 16)
    - 6.1.1.1 Qualifications of experts or professional services
      No data available.
- 6.2 Appointment of an OSH practitioner
  Summary/citation: To organize occupational safety and health in an undertaking with more than 100 workers, an occupational safety and health service, subordinated directly to the chief manager of the undertaking, shall be set up.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 16)
  - 6.2.1 Workforce size threshold for the appointment of OSH practitioners
    Summary/citation: To organize occupational safety and health in an undertaking with more than 100 workers, an occupational safety and health service, subordinated directly to the chief manager of the undertaking, shall be set up.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 16)
7 Workers' rights and duties
- 7.1 Duty to take reasonable steps to protect their own safety and health
  No data available.
- 7.2 Duty to take reasonable steps to protect the safety and health of others
  No data available.
- 7.3 Supervisors’ duty to take reasonable steps to protect the safety and health of others
  No data available.
- 7.4 Senior officers’ duty to take reasonable steps to protect the safety and health of others
  No data available.
- 7.5 Self-employed persons’ duty to take reasonable steps to protect their own and other people’s health and safety
  No data available.
- 7.6 Duty to comply with OSH-related requirements
  Summary / Citation: The worker has the duty to comply with the requirements on occupational safety and health established by laws and regulations.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 19)
- 7.7 Right to enquire about risks and preventive measures
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 7.8 Right to remove themselves from a dangerous situation
  Summary / Citation: In case a worker in the course of work discovers that there is a danger to his/her life and health, and cannot eliminate it with means available to him/her, he or she has the right to stop the work, without being punished.
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 150)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 7.9 Right to be reassigned to non-hazard work
  Summary / Citation: The workers, who for health reasons need to be provided with an easier work, including due to an injury, an occupational disease or other health impairment linked with the performance of their work duties, shall be transferred with their consent by the employer to another work, in accordance with a medical opinion, temporarily or indefinitely by creating, if necessary, new workplaces, shops, and working areas.
  • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 151)
  - 7.9.1 Right to withdraw with compensation when workers are not reassigned to non-hazard work
    Summary / Citation: If, due to the conditions of production, it is impossible to arrange rational employment of the worker who received an occupational injury, occupational disease or other damage to health associated with the performance of the job duties, the employment agreement (contract) with the worker will be terminated with payment of a severance pay.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 151)
8 Consultation, collaboration and co-operation with workers and their representatives
- 8.1 National OSH committee, commission, council or similar body
  No data available.
  - 8.1.1 Objectives, roles and/or functions
    No data available.
  - 8.1.2 Constitution and chairmanship modalities
    No data available.
- 8.2 Employers’ duty to consult workers on risks
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 8.3 Workers’ right to select their representatives for health and safety matters
  Summary / Citation: Public control over compliance with the standards and rules on occupational safety and health is carried out by trade unions and other representative bodies of workers, which have the right to create, for this purpose, their own inspections and also to elect the authorized (entrusted) persons on occupational safety and health.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 27, Para. 1)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.3.1 Workforce size conditions for workers’ representation in health and safety
    No data available.
  - 8.3.2 Conditions of eligibility to represent workers in health and safety
    No data available.
- 8.4 OSH representatives’ functions, rights and powers
  Sometimes.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.4.1 Right to inspect the workplace
    Summary / Citation: Inspectors and the authorized (entrusted) persons on occupational safety and health of trade unions and other representative bodies of workers have the right to exercise control of compliance by employers with the legislation on occupational safety and health.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 27, Para. 2)
  - 8.4.2 Right to access OSH information
    Summary / Citation: Inspectors and the authorized (entrusted) persons on occupational safety and health of trade unions and other representative bodies of workers have the right to receive information from managers and other officers of undertakings on working conditions and occupational safety and health, and also on all occupational accidents and occupational diseases.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 27, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.4.3 Right to be present at interviews
    No data available.
  - 8.4.4 Right to receive professional assistance from OSH experts
    No data available.
  - 8.4.5 Right to accompany inspectors
    No data available.
  - 8.4.6 Right to use facilities
    No data available.
  - 8.4.7 Right to have time off work with pay to perform duties
    No data available.
  - 8.4.8 Right to issue remedial notices
    Summary / Citation: Inspectors and the authorized (entrusted) persons on occupational safety and health of trade unions and other representative bodies of workers have the right to issue to employers, obligatory for consideration, representations to eliminate revealed violations of requirements concerning occupational safety and health.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 27, Para. 2)
  - 8.4.9 Right to resolve OSH issues in consultation with employers
    No data available.
  - 8.4.10 Right to direct that dangerous work cease
    Summary / Citation: Inspectors and the authorized (entrusted) persons on occupational safety and health of trade unions and other representative bodies of workers have the right to make demands on suspending works in cases of danger to the life and health of the workers.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 27, Para. 2)
- 8.5 Right of workers’ representatives from outside the undertaking to address OSH issues at the workplace
  Sometimes.
  - 8.5.1 Right to enter the workplace
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.5.2 Right to investigate suspected non-compliance with OSH legislation
    No data available.
  - 8.5.3 Right to consult with workers
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.5.4 Right to advise workers
    No data available.
  - 8.5.5 Right to initiate enforcement action
    Summary / Citation: Inspectors and the authorized (entrusted) persons on occupational safety and health of trade unions and other representative bodies of workers have the right to appeal to the appropriate authorities by bringing to justice the persons responsible for violation of occupational safety and health requirements and concealment of facts regarding occupational accidents.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 27, Para. 2)
- 8.6 Joint OSH Committee
  Summary / Citation: In an undertaking committees (commissions) on occupational safety and health shall be set up at the initiative of the employer, and (or) of workers or trade unions, and other representative bodies authorized by workers.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 17, Para. 1)
  - 8.6.1 Participation of workers’ representatives in joint OSH committee
    Summary / Citation: The structure of the committees (commissions) on occupational safety and health shall include, on a parity basis, the representatives of employers, trade unions or other representative body authorized by workers.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 17, Para. 1)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.6.2 Conditions for establishing a joint OSH committee
    Summary / Citation: In an undertaking committees (commissions) on occupational safety and health shall be set up at the initiative of the employer, and (or) workers or trade unions, and other representative bodies authorized by workers.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 17, Para. 1)
  - 8.6.3 Objectives, roles and/or functions of joint OSH committees
    Summary / Citation: The committee (commission) on occupational safety and health shall develop the section of the collective agreement on occupational safety and health, organize the joint actions of the employer and workers on ensuring requirements of the occupational safety and health, prevent occupational injuries and diseases, monitor working conditions and occupational safety and health at workplaces and informing workers of the results.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 17, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 8.6.4 Keeping record of the work of joint OSH committees
    No data available.
  - 8.6.5 Sharing the minutes of joint OSH committees meetings
    No data available.
- 8.7 Mandatory training for members of joint OSH committee(s)
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 8.8 Protection against reprisals
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 8.9 Immunity from civil and criminal liability for exercising OSH related rights and duties
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
9 Specific hazards or risks
- 9.1 Biological hazards
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 9.2 Chemical hazards
  Yes.
  - 9.2.1 Handling, storage, labelling and use
    Summary / Citation: General safety requirements are laid down with regard to the development of new pesticides and agrochemicals, labelling and provision of recommendations on safe use, production, storage, transportation, import and export, application, purchase, sale, decontamination, disposal and destruction of pesticides and agrochemicals.
    • Act No. 1 of 22 April 2003 on production and secure handling of pesticides and agro-chemicals (Text No. 131). (Articles 16-24)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.2.2 Duty of manufacturers, suppliers and importers of chemicals in relation to the safety and health of users
    Summary / Citation: Plants, machinery and other production equipment, vehicles, technological processes, materials and chemical substances, personal and collective protective equipment of workers of both domestic and foreign production shall comply with occupational safety and health requirements established in legislation, and shall have certificates of conformity.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 23, Para. 6)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.2.3 Pesticides
    Summary / Citation: The Act No. 1 of 22 April 2003 provides, inter alia, that during exploitation, production, transportation and use of pesticides and agro-chemicals special working conditions, means of health protection and control methods must be respected.
    • Act No. 1 of 22 April 2003 on production and secure handling of pesticides and agro-chemicals (Text No. 131). (Art. 22)
- 9.3 Ergonomic hazards
  No data available.
- 9.4 Physical hazards
  Sometimes.
  - 9.4.1 Ionising radiation
    Summary / Citation: The Act No. 42 of 1 August 2003 provides, inter alia, for State regulation in the field of radiation security, evaluation of radiation level, obligations of users of sources of ionizing radiation, and control of radiation doses.
    • Act No. 42 of 1 August 2003 on radiation security (Text No. 465). (Art. 16)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 (No. 115) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.4.2 Vibration and noise
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Observation 2016
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Direct Request 2020
    • Working Environment (Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration) Convention, 1977 (No. 148) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.4.3 Working at height
    No data available.
  - 9.4.4 Working in confined spaces
    No data available.
  - 9.4.5 Risks arising from poor maintenance of workplace facilities
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Observation 2016
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.4.6 Exposure to extreme temperatures
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Observation 2016
    • Hygiene (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1964 (No. 120) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.4.7 Fire risks
    Summary / Citation: The obligation to ensure fire safety and fire extinguishing is directly placed on the managers of undertakings, enterprises, and institutions, regardless of the form of ownership. Undertakings and establishments, regardless of the forms of ownership, have the duty to observe fire safety requirements, to carry out orders and other legal requirements of the bodies of the State Fire Safety Service and to develop and implement measures for ensuring fire safety.
    • Act of the Republic of Tajikistan on Fire Safety, No. 363 of March 20, 2008 (Art. 22)
  - 9.4.8 Tobacco
    No data available.
  - 9.4.9 Asbestos
    No data available.
  - 9.4.10 Risks related to nanotechnology
    No data available.
  - 9.4.11 Contraction of HIV in the workplace
    Summary / Citation: The administration of medical institutions have the duty to provide workers with necessary means of protection, and systematically examine them to detect HIV infection when those workers conduct diagnostic researches on HIV infection, provide medical assistance to HIV-infected persons and patients with AIDS disease, as well as prevent contact with blood and other materials of the infected persons.
    • Act of the Republic of Tajikistan on Counteraction to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, No. 150 of December 28, 2005 (Art. 19)
- 9.5 Psychosocial hazards
  No data available.
  - 9.5.1 Psychosocial risks
    No data available.
  - 9.5.2 Occupational violence
    No data available.
- 9.6 Other hazardous substances
  No data available.
- 9.7 Machineries
  Sometimes.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.7.1 Risks related to machinery and tools
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    • Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.7.2 Duty of designers and/or manufacturers of machineries in relation to the occupational safety and health of operators of machineries
    Summary / Citation: Plants, machinery and other production equipment, vehicles, technological processes, materials and chemical substances, personal and collective protective equipment of workers of both domestic and foreign production shall comply with occupational safety and health requirements established in legislation, and shall have certificates of conformity.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 23, Para. 6)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    • Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.7.3 Duty of designers, manufacturers, importers or suppliers of machineries to provide machineries information
    Summary / Citation: The projects of construction and reconstruction of production objects, as well as of plants, machinery and other production equipment and technological processes shall comply with requirements of occupational safety and health.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 23, Para. 1)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    • Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.7.4 Duty to purchase machineries from authorised/certificated suppliers or only if approved/certificated
    Summary / Citation: Plants, machinery and other production equipment, vehicles, technological processes, materials and chemical substances, personal and collective protective equipment of workers of both domestic and foreign production shall comply with occupational safety and health requirements established in legislation, and shall have certificates of conformity.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 23, Para. 6)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    • Guarding of Machinery Convention, 1963 (No. 119) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.7.5 Maintenance of machinery and equipment
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
    - 9.7.5.1 List of equipment where applicable
      No data available.
      Related CEACR Comments
      • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 9.8 Provisions to protect workers in specific condition of vulnerability
  Yes.
  - 9.8.1 Protection of pregnancy at work
    Summary / Citation: Rates of output and service standards shall be reduced for pregnant women in accordance with a medical report, or they shall be transferred to another work, which is easier and excludes the influence of occupational hazards with reservation of average salary from previous work.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 163)
  - 9.8.2 Protection of lactating women at work
    Summary / Citation: The women having children under the age of one year and a half, in cases when the performed work is contraindicated to the feeding mother, or does not allow observing the feeding regime, shall be transferred to another work with preservation of the average monthly salary from the former work until the child is one year and a half.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 163)
  - 9.8.3 Limits to women’s access to specific occupations, undertakings or shifts
    Summary / Citation: It is prohibited to employ women in underground works, hard works, and works with harmful working conditions, as well as works involving manual lifting and moving of heavy weights, exceeding the maximum permissible for them. Employment of women in night time works is prohibited, except some branches of the national economy, in which it is permitted due to particular necessity.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 160, Art. 161)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Underground Work (Women) Convention, 1935 (No. 45) Direct Request 2020
  - 9.8.4 Limits to workers’ access to specific occupations, undertakings or shifts by reason of age
    Summary / Citation: It is prohibited to employ persons under the age of eighteen in hard works and works with harmful and hazardous working conditions, in underground works and in works, the performance of which, could cause harm to their health or moral development.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 177)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) Observation 2020
    • Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) Direct Request 2020
    • Night Work of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 79) Direct Request 2017
    • Night Work of Young Persons (Industry) Convention (Revised), 1948 (No. 90) Direct Request 2017
10 Recording, notification and investigation of accidents/incidents and diseases
- 10.1 Duty to record and/or investigate the causes of work accidents, near misses incidents and cases of occupational diseases
  Sometimes.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 10.1.1 Work-related accidents
    Summary / Citation: The employer shall immediately investigate the causes of accidents at workplace, draw up a report in the prescribed form and organize the timely record of occupational accidents.
    • Labour Code of 15 May 1997 (Text No. 417). (Art. 155)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 10.1.2 Near miss incidents
    No data available.
  - 10.1.3 Occupational diseases
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 10.2 Employers’ duty to notify OSH authorities of work related death and/or injuries to health
  No data available.
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
  • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
11 OSH inspection and enforcement of OSH legislation
- 11.1 Appointment of OSH inspectors
  Summary / Citation: The state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health is exercised by specially authorized state bodies which are independent in their activities from undertakings and their higher bodies.
  • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 1)
  Related CEACR Comments
  • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
- 11.2 OSH inspectors’ powers
  Sometimes.
  - 11.2.1 Power to enter workplaces
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of the state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties in the case of fulfilment of requirements set up in the legislation, upon presentation of proper credentials, have the right to enter freely in order to carry out examination of an undertaking, irrespective of the form of ownership and departmental affiliation.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
  - 11.2.2 Power to inspect and carry out any examination, test or enquiry
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right:
    - to request and receive, at no cost from public authorities, and undertakings of any form of ownership, documents and information necessary for carrying out supervisory and control functions;
    - to take, for purposes of analysis, samples of materials and substances used or handled.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
  - 11.2.3 Power to investigate
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right:
    - to investigate occupational accidents in accordance with an established procedures;
    - to request and receive at no cost from public authorities, and undertakings of any form of ownership, documents and information necessary for carrying out supervisory and control functions;
    - to take, for purposes of analysis, samples of materials and substances used or handled.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
  - 11.2.4 Duty to provide advice on OSH
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
- 11.3 OSH inspectors’ enforcement powers
  Sometimes.
  - 11.3.1 Power to issue orders or notices
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right to present to managers and other officials of an undertaking, obligatory for execution, injunctions on elimination of violations of the legislation on occupational safety and health, bringing those guilty of specified violations to responsibility or dismissing them from office in accordance with established procedure.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
  - 11.3.2 Power to impose financial penalties
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right to bring persons to administrative responsibility, as established by the legislation of the Republic of Tajikistan, for violation of the requirements of occupational safety and health.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
  - 11.3.3 Power to revoke or suspend licenses or authorisations
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right to revoke an order established by legislation as a result of attestation of workplaces on working conditions in the process of identification of non-compliance with OSH legislation.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
  - 11.3.4 Power to require the cessation of dangerous work
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right, in case of finding violations of requirements of occupational safety and health which threaten the life and health of workers, to suspend the work of an undertaking, individual production units and equipment until elimination of danger.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Observation 2021
    • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) Direct Request 2021
  - 11.3.5 Power to initiate prosecutions
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right, in case of presence of signs of a crime, to send to law enforcement agencies materials to bring specified persons to criminal responsibility.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
  - 11.3.6 Power to conduct prosecutions
    No data available.
  - 11.3.7 Other enforcement powers
    Summary / Citation: The officials of authorized bodies of state control over compliance with laws and regulations on occupational safety and health, when performing their duties, have the right:
    - to prohibit the use and production of personal and collective protective equipment of workers which do not have certificates of conformity or do not meet the requirements of occupational safety and health legislation.
    • Law No. 517 of 19 May 2009 on Occupational Safety. (Art. 25, Para. 2)
- 11.4 Application of sanctions by courts
  Sometimes.
  - 11.4.1 Financial penalties for legal persons
    Summary / Citation: • Minimum financial penalty for corporations is 20 calculation indexes;
    • Maximum financial penalty for corporations is 30 calculation indexes;
    Violation by the employer of the legislation on occupational safety and health, that is, non-performance or inappropriate performance of duties in creating favourable and safe working conditions for workers, safe introduction of means and technologies ensuring compliance with sanitary norms and requirements of standards on occupational safety and health, in the absence of elements of a crime, shall be punishable with a fine ranging from 20 to 30 calculation indexes.
    • Law No. 455 of 31 December 2008 to adopt and implement the Code of Administrative Offences. (Art. 31, Art. 135)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 11.4.2 Financial penalties for natural persons
    Summary / Citation: • Minimum financial penalty for individuals is 20 calculation indexes;
    • Maximum financial penalty for individuals is 500 calculation indexes;
    Violation by the employer of the legislation on occupational safety and health, that is, non-performance or inappropriate performance of duties in creating favourable and safe working conditions for workers, safe introduction of means and technologies ensuring compliance with sanitary norms and requirements of standards on occupational safety and health, in the absence of elements of a crime, shall be punishable with a fine ranging from 20 to 30 calculation indexes.
    Violation of rules on safety precautions or other rules of occupational safety and health by a person responsible for their observance, if it entailed negligence, the infliction of grave or moderate injury to the victim's health or an occupational disease, shall be punishable with a fine ranging from 200 to 500 calculation indexes.
    • Law No. 455 of 31 December 2008 to adopt and implement the Code of Administrative Offences. (Art. 135)
    • Penal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan of 21 May 1998. (Art. 154)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 11.4.3 Non-financial sanctions
    No data available.
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 11.4.4 Criminal liability
    Summary / Citation: There is a possibility of prosecution under the criminal law for the crime of manslaughter (causing death by negligence) as a result of improper performance by a person of his or her professional duties.
    • Penal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan of 21 May 1998. (Art. 108)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020
  - 11.4.5 Terms of imprisonment for natural persons
    Summary / Citation: • Minimum term of imprisonment is 2 years;
    • Maximum term of imprisonment is 8 years;
    Violation of rules on safety precautions or other rules on occupational safety and health by a person responsible for their observance, if it entailed negligence, infliction of grave or moderate injury to health or an occupational disease, shall be punishable with a fine, corrective labour or with imprisonment for a term of 2 years. Violation of rules on safety precautions or other rules of occupational safety and health by a person responsible for their observance, which by negligence has resulted in the death of two or more persons shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term from 3 to 8 years with or without deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in a certain activity for a term of up to five years.
    • Penal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan of 21 May 1998. (Art. 154)
    Related CEACR Comments
    • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) Direct Request 2020

Tajikistan - 2013

Themes

1 Description of national OSH regulatory framework

1.1 Description of OSH regulatory framework

2 Scope, coverage and exclusions

2.1 Health and safety covers physical and psychological health

2.2 Definition of worker

2.2.1 Coverage of particular categories of workers

2.2.1.1 Migrant workers

2.2.1.2 Domestic workers

2.2.1.3 Home workers

2.2.1.4 Self-employed persons

2.3 Definition of employer

2.4 Exclusion of branches of economic activity

2.4.1 Agriculture

2.4.2 Construction

2.4.3 Services

2.4.4 Public sector

2.4.5 Other

2.5 Definition of occupational accident

2.6 Definition of occupational disease

2.6.1 List of occupational diseases

2.6.2 Mechanism for compensating other diseases as occupational ones

3 Institutions and programmes relating to OSH administration and/or enforcement

3.1 Competent national authority for safety and health at work

3.1.1 Objectives, roles and/or functions

3.1.2 Chairperson and composition

3.2 National OSH research programme or institute

3.2.1 Objectives, roles and/or functions

3.2.2 Governance board constitution and chairmanship

3.2.3 Source of funding

3.3 National OSH programme

3.3.1 Consultation on the national OSH programme

4 Employers’ duties and responsibilities to protect the safety and health of workers and others

4.1 Duty to ensure the health and safety of employees

4.2 Duty to protect the health and safety of people other than their own employees

4.3 Collaboration among two or more employers at the same workplace

4.4 Surveillance of workers’ health in relation to work

4.4.1 Specific hazards for which surveillance is required

4.5 Surveillance of the working environment and working practices

4.6 Duty to provide personal protective equipment

4.7 Duty to ensure the usage of personal protective equipment

4.8 Duty to provide first-aid and welfare facilities

4.8.1 Arrangements for first-aid

4.8.2 Sanitary installations

4.8.3 Drinking water

4.8.4 Rest and eating areas

5 Employers’ duty to organize prevention formally along generally accepted OSH management principles and practices

5.1 Elements of an OSH management system

5.1.1 Policy or plan specifying responsibilities and arrangements for health and safety

5.1.2 Appointment of a person for health and safety

5.1.3 Written risk assessment

5.1.4 Safe operating work systems and procedures

5.1.5 Training and information on risks

5.1.6 Review or assessment of the results of preventive measures

5.1.7 Consultation with workers in health and safety

5.2 Obligation to implement a specific OSH management system or standard

6 Employers’ duty to ensure availability of expertise and competence in health and safety

6.1 OSH competence

6.1.1 Requirement to access expert advice and/or support in health and safety

6.1.1.1 Qualifications of experts or professional services

6.2 Appointment of an OSH practitioner

6.2.1 Workforce size threshold for the appointment of OSH practitioners

7 Workers' rights and duties

7.1 Duty to take reasonable steps to protect their own safety and health

7.2 Duty to take reasonable steps to protect the safety and health of others

7.3 Supervisors’ duty to take reasonable steps to protect the safety and health of others

7.4 Senior officers’ duty to take reasonable steps to protect the safety and health of others

7.5 Self-employed persons’ duty to take reasonable steps to protect their own and other people’s health and safety

7.6 Duty to comply with OSH-related requirements

7.7 Right to enquire about risks and preventive measures

7.8 Right to remove themselves from a dangerous situation

7.9 Right to be reassigned to non-hazard work

7.9.1 Right to withdraw with compensation when workers are not reassigned to non-hazard work

8 Consultation, collaboration and co-operation with workers and their representatives

8.1 National OSH committee, commission, council or similar body

8.1.1 Objectives, roles and/or functions

8.1.2 Constitution and chairmanship modalities

8.2 Employers’ duty to consult workers on risks

8.3 Workers’ right to select their representatives for health and safety matters