RESOLUTION OF THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL PROTECTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS AND MINISTRY OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of May 31, 2019 No. 24/33

About approval of Rules on labor protection in case of accomplishment of construction works

Based on the paragraph of the fifth of part two of article 9 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus of June 23, 2008 No. 356-Z "About labor protection", subitem 7.1.5 of Item 7 of the Regulations on the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus approved by the resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of October 31, 2001 No. 1589, and subitem 6.9 of Item 6 of the Regulations on the Ministry of Architecture of the Republic of Belarus approved by the resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of July 31, 2006 No. 973, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus and the Ministry of Architecture of the Republic of Belarus is DECIDED:

1. Approve Rules on labor protection in case of accomplishment of construction works (are applied).

2. This resolution becomes effective after its official publication.

Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus

I. A. Kostevich

Minister of Architecture of the Republic of Belarus

D.M.Mikulenok

It is approved Brest regional executive committee

Vitebsk regional executive committee

Gomel regional executive committee

Grodno regional executive committee

Minsk regional executive committee

Mogilev regional executive committee

Minsk city executive committee

 

Approved by the Resolution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus and the Ministry of Architecture of the Republic of Belarus of May 31, 2019 No. 24/33

Rules on labor protection in case of accomplishment of construction works

Chapter 1. General requirements

1. These rules on labor protection in case of accomplishment of construction works (further - Rules) establish requirements for labor protection in case of accomplishment of construction works and the related works on construction objects (further if other is not determined, - construction works).

2. The requirements for labor protection containing in Rules are aimed at providing the healthy and safe working conditions working, occupied with accomplishment of construction works (further - working), and extend to employers irrespective of their forms of business and patterns of ownership performing construction activities (further - employers).

3. For the purposes of these rules terms and their determinations in the values established by the Law of the Republic of Belarus of June 23, 2008 No. 356-Z "About labor protection" and the Law of the Republic of Belarus of July 5, 2004 No. 300-Z "About architectural, town-planning and construction activities in the Republic of Belarus" and also the following terms and their determinations are used:

the prime contractor – the contractor attracting under agreements to accomplishment of separate liabilities of other persons;

catch – the site of the building, construction intended for line accomplishment of installation and construction works with repeating on this and subsequent to it sites structure and amount of works;

safety signs – the signs intended for the warning of the working, other persons of possible danger, prohibition or the instruction of certain actions, and also to information on arrangement of objects which use is connected with exception or decrease in effects of impact of harmful and (or) dangerous production factors;

line managers of works are the engineering employees (chiefs of sites, operators, masters, mechanics and other workers) who are direct heads of construction, repair and construction, special works and other types of construction works;

the danger area – zone of possible impact on working, in case of its stay in it, harmful and (or) dangerous production factors, the exposure hazard or exposure of which, can exceed maximum permissible values;

finishing works – complex of the processes which are carried out during construction of the building (construction) after its termination or under production conditions (in the course of production of designs) for the purpose of giving to surfaces of structures of buildings or constructions of protective and decorative properties;

the conservation zone – zone in which the special mode of protection of the placed objects is set;

scaffolding – the single-layer design intended for performance of works, the workplaces requiring movement on scope of work;

works at height – works during which working there are at distance less than 2 m from not protected differences on height of 1,3 of m and more;

the working area – space up to 2 m high over the level of floor or the platform at which there are places of permanent or temporary stay of working;

the working platform – the hinged design intended for formation of workplace it is direct in works zone;

repair construction works – the construction works on recovery of operational functions of buildings, constructions including partial or complete replacement of designs, the engineering equipment and finishing works;

special works – the works including strengthening of soil, isolation, installation of processing equipment, pipelines, control facilities and automatic equipment, the electric installation, sanitary and other work necessary for commissioning of the facility;

means of podmashchivaniye – the devices intended for the organization of workplaces in case of production of installation and construction works at height or depth of more 1,3 of m from the level of the earth or overlapping;

remedy (working) – the means intended for prevention of risk or reduction of its impact on working to admissible level;

the construction woods (further – the woods) – the multilevel design intended for the organization of workplaces on the different horizons;

construction works – result of construction production as complex of the working activities and processes performed in case of construction, reconstruction, capital and running repair of buildings, constructions and demolition of construction objects;

safety requirements of work (safety requirement) – the requirements established by legal acts and other regulatory legal acts, including technical regulatory legal acts, local legal acts, technological documentation on production of installation and construction works (process and standard process charts) (further – technological documentation) which accomplishment provides safe working conditions and regulates behavior of working.

4. Under the organization and accomplishment of construction works requirements of the Law of the Republic of Belarus "About labor protection" shall be observed, Governed on labor protection, No. approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus of July 1, 2021 53, of these rules, and also other regulatory legal acts, including technical regulatory legal acts which are according to legal acts and regulatory legal acts of the Government of the Republic of Belarus obligatory for observance (further if other is not determined, – technical regulatory legal acts), technical regulations of the Customs union and Eurasian Economic Union, local legal acts, operational documents of the organizations manufacturers (further – operational documents).

5. In case of accomplishment of construction works on construction object (further - object) several employers based on the signed construction contracts, each of them shall provide safe working conditions for attracted by them the these rules working according to requirements.

6. Employers for creation of the safe working conditions working provide:

development and adoption of instructions for labor protection for professions of working and (or) separate work types (services) according to the procedure, established by the legislation;

briefing on labor protection, training, examinations concerning labor protection working according to the procedure, established by the legislation;

passing working, occupied at works with harmful and (or) dangerous working conditions or at works where according to the legislation there is need for professional selection, obligatory preliminary medical examinations (in case of revenues to work) and periodic medical examinations, and also extraordinary medical examinations in case of the deterioration in the state of health according to the procedure established by the legislation;

passing by the workers occupied at works with the increased danger, prereplaceable (before work, change) medical examinations or surveys regarding stay in the condition of alcoholic, drug or toxic intoxication according to the procedure established by the legislation;

issue to workers of individual protection equipment according to the procedure, established by the legislation, and control of their application. Working under civil agreements are provided with individual protection equipment according to these agreements.

7. The employer shall require the documents confirming passing working under the civil agreement of medical examination if it is necessary for accomplishment of the corresponding construction works.

8. In case of accomplishment of construction works on the following harmful and (or) dangerous production factors working perhaps impact:

moving vehicles and other machines and mechanisms, mobile parts of processing equipment, the moving procurements and construction materials;

the falling objects and materials, spontaneously collapsing structures of buildings and constructions, the equipment, the collapsing rocks and soil;

the arrangement of workplaces near difference on height of 1,3 of m and more at distance is closer than 2 m from difference border on height in the conditions of lack of protective barriers, and also in case of accomplishment of construction works at height of more 1,3 of m in case of stay is direct on elements of design or the equipment;

the raised gas contamination and dust content of air of the working area;

the increased or lowered air temperature of the working area;

the increased noise levels and vibrations on workplaces;

the increased humidity of air;

the increased levels of static electricity;

the increased value of tension in electric chain which short circuit can happen through body of the person;

the toxic and irritating chemicals getting into human body through respiratory organs, digestive tract, integuments and mucous membranes;

physical overworks;

psychological overloads;

other harmful and (or) dangerous production factors.

9. In case of absence in these rules of requirements for labor protection employers take the necessary measures providing preserving life, the health and working capacity working, occupied with accomplishment of construction works.

Chapter 2. Requirements under the organization of accomplishment of construction works

10. Under the organization of accomplishment of construction works requirements of construction regulations of CH 1.03.04-2020 "The organization of construction production" approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Architecture of the Republic of Belarus of November 12, 2020 No. 73 shall be observed.

The organization and construction of facilities shall be performed according to technological documentation, structure and which content conform to requirements of the Instruction about procedure for development, approval, approval and application of the technological documentation of production of installation and construction works approved by the resolution of the Ministry of Architecture of the Republic of Belarus of June 30, 2023 No. 70.

11. Before accomplishment of installation and construction works in the territory of the organization the employers who are the customer in construction activities (further - the customer), the builder in construction activities (further - the builder) and (or) the contractor in construction activities (further - the contractor) shall draw up the act admission for production of installation and construction works in the territory of the organization for form according to appendix 1.

12. The contractor or the lessor of the equipment used on object shall in case of accomplishment of construction works on building sites with involvement of subcontractors or lessees:

develop together with them the actions providing the safe working conditions obligatory for all organizations and working, participating in construction of facilities;

provide accomplishment of the planned actions and coordination of actions of subcontractors and lessees regarding accomplishment of actions for labor safety on the sites of works assigned to them.

13. Before accomplishment of construction works in the conditions of industrial hazard it is necessary to allocate zones, dangerous to people, within which the dangerous production factors connected or not connected with nature of the performed works are effective or can constantly be effective.

14. Treat zones of permanent dangerous production factors:

the places which are near uninsulated current carrying parts of electroinstallations;

not protected differences on height of 1,3 of m and more;

places where exceeding of maximum permissible levels of harmful production factors is possible (noise, vibration, electromagnetic, ultra-violet, laser, radioactive radiation).

It is necessary to carry to zones of potentially operating dangerous production factors:

sites of the territory near the building (construction) under construction;

floors (tiers) of buildings and constructions in one catch over which there is installation (dismantle) of designs or the equipment;

zones of movement of machines, equipment, their parts, working bodies;

places over which there is cargo transfer by hoisting cranes.

Borders of danger areas (the action area of dangerous production factors) are established according to appendix 2.

15. On borders of zones of permanent dangerous production factors protective barriers, and on borders of zones of potentially dangerous production factors – alarm barriers and signs of safety according to requirements of technical regulatory legal acts shall be established.

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