LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of July 12, 2013 No. 61-Z

About modification and amendments in the Law of the Republic of Belarus "About labor protection"

Accepted by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2013

Approved by Council of the Republic on June 28, 2013

Article 1. Bring in the Law of the Republic of Belarus of June 23, 2008 "About labor protection" (The national register of legal acts of the Republic of Belarus, 2008, No. 158, 2/1453) the following changes and amendments, having been reworded as follows it:

"LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

About labor protection

This Law is directed to regulation of the public relations in the field of labor protection and realization of the right of citizens to healthy and safe working conditions established by the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus.

Chapter 1 General provisions

Article 1. The main terms applied in this Law and their determinations

For the purposes of this Law the following main terms and their determinations are applied:

accreditation of legal entities (individual entrepreneurs) on rendering services in the field of labor protection - activities of the republican state body pursuing state policy in the field of work for establishment of compliance of content and quality of the provided services in the field of labor protection by legal entities (individual entrepreneurs) to requirements of the legislation on labor protection;

certification of workplaces under the terms of work - system of accounting, the analysis and complex assessment on the specific workplace of all factors of the production circle, weight and intensity of labor process influencing working capacity and health working in the course of labor activity;

safe working conditions - working conditions under which impact on the working harmful and (or) dangerous production factors is excluded or levels of their impact on working do not exceed the established standard rates;

harmful production factor - production factor which impact on working in production process in certain conditions can lead to disease, decrease in working capacity or by death;

instructing in labor protection - process of acquaintance with requirements for labor protection, safe methods and working methods which accomplishment belongs to functional (official) duties working, or other work charged by the employer;

cross-industry rules on labor protection - the regulatory legal act containing the requirements for labor protection aimed at providing the healthy and safe working conditions working obligatory for execution by all employers in case of accomplishment of any kinds of works by them, activities implementation including during the designing, construction (reconstruction) and operation of objects, designing of machines, mechanisms and other equipment, development of engineering procedures, production organization and work;

training in questions of labor protection - the process of the organization of educational activities directed to development working contents of educational programs for questions of safety of life and health in the course of their labor activity;

danger - source or situation with possibility of harming of life or to health working;

dangerous production factor - production factor which impact on working in production process in certain conditions is capable to lead to injury or other sudden sharp deterioration in health or by death;

industry rules on labor protection - the regulatory legal act containing the requirements for labor protection aimed at providing the healthy and safe working conditions of the working organizations subordinated or which are part (system) of the republican state bodies and other state organizations subordinated to the Government of the Republic of Belarus;

labor protection - the system of safety of life and the health which are working in the course of labor activity, including legal, social and economic, organizational, technical, psychophysiological, sanitarnoprotivo-epidemic, treatment-and-prophylactic, rehabilitation and other actions and means;

certification of sanitary condition of conditions and labor protection - documentary registration of assessment of actual state of conditions and labor protection for the purpose of development and implementation of actions on their reduction in compliance with the legislation on labor protection;

examination concerning labor protection - examination working concerning safety of life and health in the course of labor activity, development of safe methods and working methods which accomplishment belongs to their functional (official) duties, or other work charged by the employer;

working - the physical persons working according to employment contracts (further - workers), the physical persons working under civil agreements which subject are performance of works (rendering services) and creation of intellectual property items (further - the civil agreement) and also on the basis of membership (participation) in the organizations of any forms of business; the physical persons who are heads and members of peasant farms, students in organizations of education and the involved in works in the organizations during practical training, inservice training, training, clinical interns; the military personnel of Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, other troops and military forming involved according to the legislation to performance of works (rendering services) and execution of other obligations which are not caused by military service; the physical persons involved according to the legislation in accomplishment of paid works for liquidation of emergency situations of natural and technogenic nature;

employers - legal entities, their separate divisions having accounting number of the payer and the individual entrepreneurs employing citizens according to employment contracts, civil agreements, the physical persons employing citizens according to employment contracts, the legal entities employing on the basis of membership (participation) in the organizations of any forms of business and also the legal entities involving citizens in performance of works (rendering services) according to the procedure and on the conditions established by the legislation;

individual protection equipment - the remedy which is put on body working either its parts or used by it, intended for prevention or reduction of impact on working harmful and (or) dangerous production factors, and also for protection against pollution and (or) during the work in adverse temperature conditions;

means of collective protection - remedy, structurally and (or) functionally connected with production processes and the equipment, the room (building) or the production site, intended for protection of the harmful and (or) dangerous production factors working from impact;

training concerning labor protection - practical development of safe methods and working methods which accomplishment belongs to functional (official) duties working, under the leadership of person authorized by the employer;

the standard instruction for labor protection - the regulatory legal act determining requirements for labor protection for professions and (or) separate work types (services) on the basis of which employers develop taking into account local conditions and specifics of the activities of the instruction for labor protection;

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