Decree of the Slovak Office of Labour Safety and Slovak Mining Office No. 182 / 1969 Coll.
Decree of the Slovak Labour Safety Authority and the Slovak Mining Authority on the registration and registration of accidents at work and on the reporting of accidents at work (accidents) and technical equipment failures
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Effective from 01.01.1970
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DECLARATION
Slovak Office of Labour Security and Slovak Mining Office
of 15 December 1969
on the registration and registration of accidents at work and the reporting of accidents at work (accidents) and technical equipment failures
The Slovak Labour Safety Authority pursuant to § 5 (1) (d) of Act No. 174 / 1968 Coll., on State Professional Safety Supervision, and the Slovak Mining Authority pursuant to § 57 (1) (d) of Act No. 41 / 1957 Coll., on the Use of Mineral Wealth (Upper Law) provides in an agreement with the participating authorities:
EVIDENCE AND REGISTRATION OF WORKING INJURY
Scope
Registration and registration under the provisions of this Order shall be subject to accidents at work.
(a) workers of all organisations and establishments (hereinafter referred to as "organisations") * and workers of independent operators in working or similar proportions, including apprentices;
(b) members of single agricultural cooperatives, production, consumer cooperatives and members and other persons working in cooperative organisations;
(c) students and pupils in production practice or work in organisations carried out according to the curriculum and curriculum;
(d) members of military services when working in organisations;
(e) persons serving a sentence when working in organisations (hereinafter referred to as "workers").
Work accident
(1) For the purposes of this Order, any breach of health or death caused to the worker by the short-term, sudden and violent action of external influences in or directly related to the performance of his or her duties shall be regarded as an accident at work; an accident at work shall also be assimilated to an accident suffered by a worker at the workplace or at the premises of an organisation or a separate operator in an activity which is not related to the performance of the duties, where such activity has been carried out with the knowledge of the organisation or of the independent operator.
(2) An accident at work which has occurred on the way to and from the worker is not regarded as an accident at work.
Registration and registration of accidents at work
(1) For the purposes of this decree, measures which organisations and independent operators are obliged to carry out shall be deemed to have registered accidents at work.
(2) Organisations and independent operators are required to carry out the registration
(a) identify the cause and other circumstances of the accident at work;
(b) make a record of an accident at work based on the results of the identification of the causes of the accident;
(c) lay down measures against the repetition of similar accidents and check that they are carried out within the prescribed time limit.
(3) Organisations and independent operators are required to keep records of accidents at work subject to registration. *)
Accidents to work subject to registration
Registration shall be subject to accidents at work if they have caused the death or inability of the worker to work for at least one day outside the day on which the accident occurred.
Types of accidents at work
(1) For the purposes of this decree, accidents at work shall be divided into fatal, severe, mass accidents and others depending on their severity.
(2) Accordingly,
(a) for a fatal injury to any accident at work which caused the worker to die immediately or at any time thereafter, if the death was recognised as a result of such accident at work on the basis of a medical opinion;
(b) for serious injury to any accident at work which results in serious injury to health, such as:
- mutilation,
- loss or substantial reduction of working capacity,
- paralysis of the limb,
- loss or substantial weakening of the function of the sensory organ,
- damage to an important organ,
- degeneration,
- abortion,
- torturous hardships,
- a longer-lasting health disorder,
- any other injury and industrial poisoning the doctor has identified as severe;
(c) for a mass accident each accident at work where three or more persons, at least one severely or fatally, or more than ten persons have been injured in one accident;
(d) for other accidents, all accidents at work not referred to in (a) to (c).
Reporting of accidents at work
(1) The disabled, if he is able to do so, or a witness to an accident at work, or any other worker who first becomes aware of the accident at work, shall immediately inform the master or other immediate superior of the injured worker of the accident.
(2) As soon as the superior becomes aware of the accident at work, he shall immediately notify the accident
(a) management of the organisation;
(b) to the race committee or delegated body of the basic organisation of the Slovak Trade Union or to the entrusted body of the basic organisation of the Slovak Union of cooperative and individual management farmers, if it is a single agricultural cooperative, and to the committee of the management of members, if it is a production cooperative.
(3) Organisations and independent operators are required to report the accident by telephone, telegraph or other appropriate means immediately upon receipt of a report on a fatal, severe or mass accident.
(a) the competent labour safety inspector, * *) if the post is supervised by that authority;
(b) to the competent district mining office, where the offices are subject to the main supervision of the State Mining Administration;
(c) ministries of national defence, transport, post office and telecommunications and home affairs, if they are technical equipment or selected objects subject to specific rules of supervision by their authorities;
(d) the central committee of the relevant Slovak trade union;
(e) the relevant Public Security Service;
(f) to the competent authority of the health service, if there is sudden industrial poisoning;
(g) the relevant branch of the Slovak State Insurance Corporation, if it is an accident on the part of its insured person.
The organisations shall also report to their most closely superior authority as well as to the relevant central authority.
(4) If the worker died later, the organisation and the operator shall be required to report in writing the death caused by the accident at work to the authorities referred to in paragraph 3 within 48 hours of death.
(5) The competent authority referred to in paragraph 3 shall be competent by the place of employment.
Detection and investigation of the causes of accidents at work subject to registration
(1) Organisations and independent operators are required to identify objectively the causes of the accident at work and to draw up a record of the accident at work within 24 hours of the occurrence of the accident.
(2) The identification of the causes and record of the accident at work referred to in paragraph 1 shall be attended by the trade union official responsible for the basic organisation of the Slovak trade union, in the single agricultural cooperatives the official of the basic organisation of the Slovak association of cooperative and individual management peasants and in the production cooperatives appointed by the member of the committee of care for members.
(3) The causes of fatal, severe and mass accidents at workplaces subject to the supervision of the authorities referred to in Article 6 (3) (b) and (c) are examined by those authorities in accordance with specific rules. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall remain unaffected.
(4) Organisations and independent operators are required to establish and implement measures against the repetition of similar accidents, to specify the time limits to comply with those measures and the means of monitoring them. They shall inform the officials referred to in paragraph 2 of the implementation of the measures provided for.
(5) Public security workers *) conduct investigations if the facts established suggest that a criminal offence has been committed in connection with a work accident. The staff of the Labour Security Inspectorate (* *) shall investigate the causes of fatal and mass accidents at work, unless an investigation is carried out by Public Security personnel. The authorised staff of the Labour Safety Inspectorate shall participate in investigations conducted by public security personnel and vice versa. Representatives of the central committee of the relevant Slovak trade union are also entitled to participate in the investigation.
(6) In the event of a fatal and mass accident, the organisations and the individual operators for which the accident has become compulsory shall:
(a) immediately inform the competent authority referred to in paragraphs 2, 3 and 5 of the time and place of detection of the causes of the accident at work;
(b) take measures to prevent further possible threats to the life and health of workers;
(c) to ensure that the place of work injury is maintained in its original state until the arrival of the authorised official of the Labour Safety Inspectorate and of the Public Security Officer.
(7) Changes in the place of accidents at work referred to in paragraph 5 shall be permitted only if they are to be rescued by the affected persons or, where appropriate, by other rescue work, or if traffic safety so requires.
(8) In exceptional cases where it is not possible to leave the site of the accident in its original state, a sketch of the situation must be drawn up indicating (changes made or photograph the location of the accident, as appropriate. The staff member who gave the order or consent to make the changes shall be responsible for the acquisition of the sketch and, where applicable, the photographic image.
(9) Organisations and independent operators whose workplace has suffered an accident at work as referred to in paragraph 5 shall be required to enable the personnel conducting investigations under this paragraph to carry out their tasks.
Unregistered accidents at work
(1) The worker is obliged to report to his superior and to work injury which has not caused him or her incapacity for work less than one day.
(2) Organisations and independent operators shall be required to keep entries in the accident report on such accidents in such a way that they can be used as a basis for determining the appropriate measures and, where appropriate, for drawing up, at a later date, an alert on the accident at work if its consequences are manifested retrospectively.
(3) If, as a result of an accident at work, an incapacity of more than one day has elapsed under the preceding paragraphs, organisations and independent operators are required to comply with the provisions of Sections 3 and 6 of this Decree.
Submission of records of accidents at work
(1) Organisations and independent operators are required to submit copies of the records of accidents at work subject to registration in bulk for the previous month by the fifth day of the following month.
(a) to the competent labour safety inspector, where the work is subject to supervision by that authority;
(b) the competent district mining office, if it is a place of business supervised by that authority or the Slovak mining office, if it is an accident at work caused by the use of explosives;
(c) ministries of transport, post offices and telecommunications and interiors, if they are technical equipment or selected objects subject to specific rules of supervision by their authorities.
(2) In the case of technical installations subject to special supervision by the authorities of the Ministry of Defence, the organisation shall submit copies of the records of accidents at work subject to mass registration for the previous month to the Ministry by the 10th day of the following month.
(3) An organisation and a separate operator shall transmit one copy of the record of an accident at work to the injured person and in the event of a fatal accident at work to the survivors.
(4) In the event of a fatal, severe or mass accident at work, the organisation and the operator shall be required to send a copy of the accident at work no later than 48 hours after the accident and a record of the accident at work within 30 days of the date of the accident at work, except for the places referred to in paragraph 1.
(a) to the central committee of the relevant Slovak trade union;
(b) the Regional Committee of the Slovak Association of Cooperative and Individual Farmers, if it is a single agricultural cooperative,
(c) the Slovak Association of Production Cooperatives, if applicable;
(d) a district national health institution; *)
(e) the district department of the Slovak Statistical Office.
The organisation shall also send these copies to its closest superior body.
Registration of a worker's accident at work of another organisation
(1) If an accident at work subject to registration to a worker of an organisation other than that in which an accident at work has occurred is reported, the cause of the accident at work shall be established and recorded by the organisation in which the accident occurred and sent in the necessary number of copies within 48 hours of the date of the accident to the organisation in which the worker is working and shall take the measures necessary to remove the causes of the accident if it has caused them. Further measures under the provisions of this decree shall be taken by an organisation with whom the worker is employed.
(2) In the event of a fatal, severe or mass accident, the organisation in which the accident occurred shall fulfil the obligations laid down in Article 6 (3). They shall immediately inform the organisation in which the worker is working by telephone or telegraphically.
(3) Where a worker of the working group (s) who has a designated manager suffers from an accident at work, he shall declare the cause of the accident at work and make an entry on it, the head of that working group in cooperation with the organisation in which the accident occurred. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis in the event of an accident by the Head of the Working Group.
(4) If a registered worker has suffered a work accident sent by an organisation to work outside the territory of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, he shall report, identify the causes of the work accident and record it with the head of the seconded group. Other measures under this decree shall be provided by the organisation which sent the worker to work abroad. In cases where a worker has been released for work abroad by an organisation which is in contract with a foreign trade organisation, he shall do so in cooperation with that foreign trade organisation.
(5) In the event of an accident at work, the organisation and the individual operators carrying out apprenticeship education during the period of the accident at work shall comply with the obligations arising from this decree.
REPORTING OF OPERATING NEEDS (HAVARIES) AND OF TECHNICAL DEVICES
(1) An operating accident (accident) is an event likely to have been caused by damage to the property of an organisation in excess of 20 000 Kčs or which has been seriously threatened by the operation, or by the development of an organisation, or by the life and health of workers.
(2) The failure of the technical equipment is a damage to the technical equipment which has resulted in the cessation or limitation of its operation, the damage caused by which appears to exceed 5000 Ccs but not 20 000 Ccs.
(3) Organisations, independent operators and individual users of technical equipment are required to immediately notify the authorities referred to in Article 6 (3) by telephone, telegraph or by other appropriate means. The technical equipment failure shall only be reported to the authorities referred to in Article 6 (3) (a) to (c). The report shall be submitted to the authorities responsible for the location of the accident or malfunction of the technical equipment.
(4) Clarification of the causes of operational accidents (accidents) or technical equipment failures is carried out by organisations or by a separate operator with the participation of the officials referred to in Article 7 (2). It shall report the result in writing to the authorities referred to in paragraph 3 within 48 hours. The staff responsible for the Safety of Work Inspectorate shall participate in the clarification, which shall investigate those causes where appropriate. If, in clarifying an operational accident (accident) or a malfunction of a technical device, it is found that an offence has been committed in connection with an accident or disorder, the organisation or a separate operator shall immediately notify the competent Public Security Service.
(5) The investigation of operational accidents (accidents) and technical equipment disturbances at workplaces subject to the supervision of the authorities referred to in Article 6 (3) (b) and (c) are governed by specific rules.
COMMON AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Storage of documents
Organisations are required to keep the documents referred to in Sections 7, 8, 9 and 11 for five years following the year of the accident at work, the accident (accident) or the failure of the technical equipment. If the organisation ceases to exist, the organisation shall submit these documents to its legal successor.
Repeal
The Order of the Central Council of Trade Unions No. 118 / 1961 Coll., on the registration of accidents at work is hereby repealed.
Efficacy
This Decree shall take effect on 1 January 1970.
The President
Slovak Mining Authority:
Ing. Baran v. r.
Director
Slovak Labour Safety Authority:
Ing. Sorel v. r.
*) § 14 of Act No. 109 / 1964 Coll. and § 8 (2) of Act No. 65 / 1965 Coll.
*) The adaptation and content of the registration documents (records of accidents at work, forms of their records, etc.) and other questions related to statistics are determined by the Slovak Statistical Office in agreement with the Slovak Labour Safety Authority and the Slovak Mining Office according to the relevant regulations.
* *) Decree No. 38 / 1969 Coll.
*) Act No. 141 / 1961 Coll. as amended by Act No. 57 / 1965 Coll.
* *) § 4 (h) of Act No. 174 / 1968 Coll.
*) This is without prejudice to the obligations of the organisation imposed by the provisions of § 10 of Act No. 33 / 1965 Coll., on Regression Refunds, and § 13 of Decree No. 34 / 1965 Coll., implementing the Act on Regression Refunds.
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| Citation | Decree of the Slovak Labour Safety Authority and Slovak Mining Authority No. 182 / 1969 Coll., on the registration and registration of accidents at work and on the reporting of accidents at work (accidents) and technical equipment failures |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 30.12.1969 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1970 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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