Decree No. 118 / 1961 Coll.
Decree of the Central Council of trade unions on the registration of accidents at work
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Effective from 01.01.1962
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DECLARATION
Central Trade Union Councils
of 17 October 1961
on the registration of accidents at work
In agreement with the participating central authorities pursuant to Article 29 of Act No. 65 / 1961 Coll., on Safety and Health at Work, the Central Council of Trade Unions shall provide:
Basic provisions
Purpose of registration of accidents at work
The effective fight against accidents at work requires continuous monitoring of the sources, causes, frequency and severity of these accidents. For this purpose, their proper registration and statistical reporting are used. The correct registration of accidents at work and their statistical monitoring will allow detailed analyses of the state and development of accidents at work to be carried out and specific measures to eliminate the most frequent sources and causes of accidents at work, thereby creating the conditions for their reduction.
Concept of registration
Registration means:
(a) a proper examination of the sources and causes of each accident at work after its notification;
(b) a record of it,
(c) laying down preventive measures to prevent the recurrence of the same or similar accidents and checking that the proposed measures have been implemented within the prescribed period and scope;
(d) keeping records of accidents at work in the log of accidents at work.
The substantive scope of the Order
(1) All sectors of the national economy, production cooperatives and single agricultural cooperatives are required to register accidents at work.
(2) Competitions within the meaning of paragraph 1 shall mean not only production, construction, transport, agricultural and commercial establishments, but also offices, institutes, courts, schools, public administration facilities, other establishments, voluntary and other organisations (hereinafter referred to as "establishments").
Personal scope of the decree
(1) The accidents at work of all plant workers are registered. The apprentices, domestic workers and other workers of the establishment shall also be regarded as workers in the registered number of factory workers.
(2) In production cooperatives, accidents at work between members and other employees of production cooperatives are registered.
(3) In single agricultural cooperatives, accidents at work of members and other workers of single agricultural cooperatives shall be registered, including persons permanently in the cooperative of workers and persons assisting (voluntarily or in the fulfilment of a civil duty) in the agricultural establishment of single agricultural cooperatives.
(4) Brigades shall be considered as workers of the establishment or cooperative in which they have suffered an accident at work for the purposes of this decree.
(5) In the case of students and pupils, all accidents at work that have occurred to them during the production work or practice in the establishment or cooperative, carried out according to the curriculum and curriculum. The accidents register the race (cooperative) in which they took place.
Accidents subject to registration
(1) Registration is subject to accidents occurring to workers (members)
(a) in the course of or directly related to employment;
(b) at their place of work or at the premises of the establishment (cooperative), including in a non-cooperative activity.
(2) The accidents referred to in paragraph 1 (hereinafter referred to as "accidents at work") shall be subject to registration if they have been caused by the disabled workers (members) being unable to work for at least 1 day (shift) outside the day on which the accident or death occurred.
(3) Registration is not subject to accidents on the way to and from work.
Fatal, severe and mass injuries
For the purposes of this decree,
(a) for the fatality of any accident at work which caused the death of a worker (a member) either immediately or at any time later, if death was recognised as a result of an accident on the basis of a medical opinion;
(b) for a severe accident at work which causes:
- total loss of the eye or both eyes,
- severe internal injuries,
- loss of limb, essential part or complicated fracture,
- grade II and III burns of greater magnitude,
- severe sudden industrial poisoning,
- any other injury the doctor has identified as severe,
(c) for a mass accident at work where 3 or more persons have been injured in one accident, of which at least 1 person has been severely injured or more than 10 persons have been affected at all.
Reporting and registration of accidents at work
Reporting of accidents at work for registration purposes
(1) The disabled (if he is able to do so) or a witness to the accident, or any other worker who first becomes aware of the accident at work, shall be obliged to inform immediately of the accident of the master or of the nearest superior injured worker.
(2) As soon as the master or the nearest officer of the injured person becomes aware of the accident at work, he shall be obliged to notify him immediately.
(a) the management of the plant;
(b) the competitive (workshop, local) committee of the basic organization of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement (hereinafter referred to as the "racing committee").
(3) The management of the plant, once it has received a report of a fatal, severe or mass accident at work, is required to report it by telephone or by telegraph immediately.
(a) to its closest superior body,
(b) the relevant district (district) trade union board; if they are a plant within the competence of the trade union of workers in mining and energy, also the relevant regional committee of that trade union,
(c) to the nearest competent public security authority;
(d) the competent district mining authority, if it is a factory (workplace) subject to the top supervision of the State Mining Administration;
(e) the competent inspectorate of the Institute of Technical Supervision, where the accident was caused in connection with the operation of a technical installation subject to national technical supervision by the Institute of Technical Supervision.
Registration of a work accident
(1) The plant is required to examine objectively the circumstances and causes of the accident and to draw up a record of the accident within 24 hours of the outcome of the investigation.
(2) The investigation and the recording of the accident referred to in paragraph 1 shall be carried out with the participation of a member of the racing committee or of a ROH official authorised by the racing committee.
(3) On the basis of the outcome of the accident at work and the record thereof, the plant shall lay down effective measures to prevent the recurrence of the same or similar accidents and shall enter them in the accident record, indicating when they are carried out and who is responsible for their execution.
(4) The plant is obliged to check that the proposed measures to eliminate the identified causes of the accident have been implemented within the specified period and extent.
(5) On the basis of accident records, the plant is required to keep a regular record of all accidents at work in the accident log.
Submission of an accident alert
(1) The plant is obliged to send mass-transplants of records of all accidents at work for the previous month by the fifth day of the following month
(a) the relevant district (district) trade union board; if they are a plant within the competence of the trade union of workers in mining and energy, also the relevant regional committee of that trade union,
(b) the competent district mining authority, if it is a factory (workplace) subject to the top supervision of the State Mining Administration.
(2) In the event of a fatal, severe or mass accident at work, the plant shall submit a copy of the alert no later than three days after the date of the accident to the places referred to in paragraph 1 and shall also:
(a) to its closest superior body,
(b) the district attorney,
(c) the competent inspector of the Institute of Technical Supervision, where the accident was caused in connection with the operation of a technical installation subject to national technical supervision by the Institute of Technical Supervision;
(d) the district department of state control and statistics only a record of a fatal work accident, if it is a race which is required to submit to that department a quarterly report of an accident at work under the guidelines of the Central Office of State Control and Statistics (§ 20).
(3) If the accident at work was originally reported and examined as a severe accident and the affected person died as a result of the accident, the plant shall be obliged to report in writing, in addition, the death caused by the accident at work to the places referred to in paragraph 2.
Procedure for the accident at work of another plant worker
(1) If there is an accident at work of an employee of another plant sent to carry out the work of installers, installers, supervisors, control officers and the like, or in the course of a business trip, the accident shall be examined and the establishment in which the accident occurred shall be recorded and all copies shall be sent within three days of the date of the accident to the parent establishment of the injured (deceased). Further measures under the provisions of this Decree are carried out by the parent plant, that is to say, the measure under § 8 (3) and (4), the registration of such accidents at work (§ 8 (5)) and the submission of an accident record (§ 9).
(2) If the accident at work of the worker who has been sent to the plant is the cause of the defect on the part of the plant in which the accident occurred, the measures provided for in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 8 shall also constitute that plant. In that case, a further copy of the accident record remaining in the establishment for the purposes of the inspection referred to in Article 8 (4) shall be drawn up.
(3) If an accident at work occurs to a worker sent to work outside the territory of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, he shall report and examine the accident at work of the head of the seconded group. Other measures under the provisions of this decree are carried out by a plant which has released the worker for work abroad in cooperation with the foreign trade undertaking.
Procedure for the work accident of a temp
(1) The accident at work of temporary workers registers the event in which the accident occurred. The record shall be drawn up with an additional copy which shall be sent within three days of the date of the accident to the mother plant of the brigade.
(2) For the purposes of registration (Section 8 (5)), the mother plant of the brigade (if it pays for sickness) shall communicate to the establishment in which the accident at work became a brigade, details of the duration of the incapacity immediately after it has been completed.
(3) Similarly, accidents at work involving members of military units and convicted persons working in socialist organisations (one copy of the accident record is sent to the relevant military department, the management of the corrective establishment) shall be carried out.
Procedure for accidents at work between students and pupils
Alerts on accidents at work of students and pupils that have occurred to them during production work or practice in establishments (Section 4 (5)) shall be drawn up with an additional copy; This certificate shall be sent within three days of the date of the accident at the school of the injured student or pupil.
Injury to work which did not result in disability
(1) Workers are required to report to their closest superior and to work accidents which require only outpatient treatment and which have not caused them to be unable to work for at least 1 day (shift) outside the day on which the accident occurred.
(2) The plants are required to keep a routine record of the accidents at work referred to in paragraph 1 in a separate workplace accident book. These entries shall provide information on the nature and circumstances of these accidents and on the recording of the accident in cases where the consequences of these minor accidents have only occurred at a later time and have resulted in an inability to work for at least 1 day (shift) off the date on which the accident occurred.
Small plants
(1) The provisions of this decree also apply to small establishments, except for the provisions of Paragraph 8 (5) on the registration of accidents at work.
(2) For the purposes of registration, a small race means a workplace for which the race committee is not elected and whose workers are not covered by another racing committee.
(3) The tasks assigned to the racing committees under this decree are carried out by a racing confidante in small races.
(4) Small plants are required to send records of all accidents at work within three days of the date of the accident to the relevant district (district, urban) trade union board.
Registration in production cooperatives
(1) The provisions of this Decree also apply in full to production cooperatives. Therefore, these cooperatives are required to report a fatal, severe or mass accident and to send a record of all accidents at work to the places referred to in § 7 (3) and § 9 (1) and (2).
(2) The tasks assigned to the racing committees in the races under this decree are carried out by the Commission in the production cooperatives which provide for safety and health at work.
Registration in single agricultural cooperatives
The provisions of this Decree shall also apply to the registration of accidents at work in single agricultural cooperatives, unless otherwise specified.
Reporting of accidents at work for registration purposes
(1) The disabled (if he is able to do so) or a witness to the accident, or any other member or worker who first becomes aware of the accident at work, shall immediately inform the nearest injured member or worker of the single agricultural cooperative.
(2) As soon as the head of the injured person becomes aware of the accident at work, he shall notify the Board of the single agricultural cooperative and the Commission on Safety and Health at Work.
(3) The management board of the single agricultural cooperative, once it has received a report on a fatal, severe or mass accident at work, is obliged to report it immediately by telephone or telegraph
(a) the relevant local and regional national committee;
(b) to the nearest competent public security authority;
(c) the nearest district (district) trade union council,
(d) to the competent district mining office, where the work of the single agricultural cooperative is subject to the top supervision of the State Mining Administration;
(e) the competent inspectorate of the Institute of Technical Supervision, where the accident was caused in connection with the operation of a technical installation subject to national technical supervision by the Institute of Technical Supervision.
Registration of a work accident
(1) The single agricultural cooperative shall be required to examine objectively the circumstances and causes of the accident and the outcome of the investigation within 24 hours, with the participation of a member of the Commission on Safety and Health at Work.
(2) The single agricultural cooperative shall, on the basis of the results of the investigation into and the record of an accident at work, lay down effective measures to prevent the recurrence of the same or similar accidents and shall enter them in the accident record, indicating when they are to be carried out and who is responsible for their implementation.
(3) The single agricultural cooperative shall be required to check whether the proposed measures to address the identified causes of the accident have been implemented within the specified time and extent.
(4) On the basis of accident records, the single agricultural cooperative shall normally keep records of all accidents at work in the accident log.
Submission of an accident alert
(1) The single agricultural cooperative shall be required to send mass copies of the records of all accidents at work for the previous month by the fifth day of the following month.
(a) to the competent district national committee;
(b) the competent district mining authority, if it is a single agricultural cooperative, subject to the top supervision of the State Mining Administration.
(2) Where there is a fatal, severe or mass accident at work, the single agricultural cooperative shall submit a copy of the alert no later than three days after the date of the accident to the places referred to in paragraph 1 and shall also:
(a) the relevant local national committee;
(b) the district attorney,
(c) the nearest district (district) trade union council,
(d) the competent inspector of the Institute of Technical Supervision, where the accident was caused in connection with the operation of a technical installation subject to national technical supervision by the Institute of Technical Supervision;
(e) the district department of state control and statistics, if there is a fatal accident at work.
Common and final provisions
Instructions for completing and keeping an alert on accidents and on the accident log
The forms for the alert on accidents at work and the log of accidents at work, the detailed instructions for their completion and management and the guidelines for the compilation and submission of statements of accidents at work are laid down in the guidelines of the Central Office of State Control and Statistics.
Storage of accident and accident logs
(1) Race, production cooperatives and single agricultural cooperatives are required to keep records of accidents and accidents at work for at least five years following the year to which they relate. If the establishment (production or single agricultural cooperative) is cancelled, the establishment (production or single agricultural cooperative) shall be obliged to submit the accident and accident logbooks to the supervisory authority.
(2) The supervisory authorities of ROH and of state professional supervision, State control and statistics, sickness insurance, social security and state health authorities have the right to consult and to obtain copies or extracts from the establishment, the production cooperative and the single agricultural cooperative.
General obligations
(1) The plant, the production cooperative and the single agricultural cooperative must inform their workers (members) of the importance of the proper reporting and registration of accidents at work, as well as of the tasks arising from this decree.
(2) The right and timely performance of the tasks imposed by this decree is not only the head of the plant, the management board of the production cooperative and the single agricultural cooperative, but also all persons who determine the work tasks shall organise, manage and control the work.
Reporting of accidents at work for social security purposes
This decree is without prejudice to the obligation of establishments to report an accident at work to the State Social Security Office pursuant to Article 11 of Decree No 15 / 1957 of the State Social Security Office on employers' obligations to keep records and report for social security purposes.
Repeal
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(a) Ordinance No 14 / 1956 of the ÚRO, on the registration and registration of accidents at work;
(b) Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture No 90 / 1956 of the Ú. l., on the registration of accidents at work in single agricultural cooperatives and individual farmers.
Start of the Decree
This Decree shall take effect on 1 January 1962.
Chairman:
Zupka v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Central Council of Trade Unions No. 118 / 1961 Coll., on the registration of accidents at work |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 09.11.1961 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1962 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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