LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

of May 19, 2009 No. 517

About labor protection

This Law establishes the legal basis of regulation of the relations in the field of labor protection between employers and workers and is directed to creation of the working conditions conforming to requirements of preserving life and health of workers in the course of labor activity.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

- labor protection - system of the legal, social and economic, organizational and technical, sanitary and hygienic, treatment-and-prophylactic and rehabilitation actions provided based on this Law, other regulatory legal acts and ensuring safety, health protection and efficiency of the person in the course of work;

- safe working conditions - working conditions under which impact of dangerous or harmful production factors on workers is excluded or level of their impact does not exceed the established standard rates;

- dangerous production factor - production factor which impact on the worker can lead to its injury;

- harmful production factor - production factor which impact on the worker can lead to his disease;

- guarantees of the rights of workers for labor protection - the conditions and means providing use fully with the rights established by the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan, this Law and other regulatory legal acts on labor protection;

- workplaces - all places where workers shall be engaged in performance of work and directly or indirectly are under control of the employer;

- the means of individual and collective protection of rabotnikovsredstvo used for prevention or reduction of impact of dangerous or harmful production factors by workers;

- occupational disease - the disease caused by impact on the worker of dangerous or harmful production factors;

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