Act No. 51 / 1954 Coll.
Law on Safety at Work in Single Agricultural Cooperatives and for Individual Farmers
Valid
Effective from 25.11.1954
51.
Law
of 27 October 1954
on occupational safety in single agricultural cooperatives and for individual farm farmers.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
The purpose of the law.
The purpose of this law is to ensure safety at work in single agricultural cooperatives and in individual farm farmers, thereby contributing to the development of creative forces, to increasing labour productivity and to the further rise in the material and cultural level of agricultural workers.
Obligations of race management.
(1) The management board of single agricultural cooperatives and individual farmers are responsible for ensuring safe and healthy work in their plants. The management board of single agricultural cooperatives and individual farm farmers are required in particular:
(a) to establish and maintain in the plants the facilities needed to protect health and safety at work and to take care of a safe and healthy environment also in the facilities of the establishments serving the workers (racing kitchen, hostel etc.),
(b) ensure that the machinery safety equipment is not removed;
(c) to identify and eliminate at the races the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases and to immediately notify serious accidents to security technicians (paragraph 3) who are obliged to keep records of them.
(2) The Board of Single Agricultural Cooperatives shall be responsible for the education of members and other cooperative workers for safe and healthy work; for individual farm farmers, this task is carried out by the executive bodies of the national committees.
(3) In order to ensure the performance of tasks relating to safety at work, the single agricultural cooperative shall be responsible for establishing its management of security technology. Security technicians shall perform their tasks in cooperation with the authorities of the national committees. The management body of the local national committee shall provide the safety engineering tasks to individual farmers.
The duty of the workers.
(1) Workers working in an agricultural plant are obliged to do their work in such a way that they do not endanger the life and health of their co-workers. Members and other staff of the single agricultural cooperative who identify deficiencies in their place of work affecting safety or health must notify the Board of Directors of the cooperative; individual farmers and other workers in their plants shall notify the management authority of the local national committee of these deficiencies if they cannot eliminate them themselves.
(2) The personnel referred to in paragraph 1 shall be obliged to participate in the training carried out in the interests of their safety and health at work, if necessary to undergo medical examinations.
Job inspection.
Supervision of safety at work in single agricultural cooperatives and individual farm farmers shall be carried out by their labour inspection bodies by the agricultural administration of the Regional National Committee; the agricultural unions of the Councils of the District National Committees cooperate in carrying out such supervision. The scope of the labour inspection bodies shall apply to all plant sites and facilities.
(1) The tasks of the labour inspection authorities are in particular:
(a) assist the board of directors of the single agricultural cooperatives and individual farmers in ensuring safe and healthy work;
(b) to continuously examine agricultural establishments and their establishments and to ensure that the board of directors of single agricultural cooperatives, members and other workers in single agricultural cooperatives, individual farmers and other workers in their establishments fulfil their obligations under this law;
(c) ensure that dangerous and hard work is replaced by machine work;
(d) order the removal of detected defects and, if there is a danger of delay, order the disposal of machines or stop work.
(2) On health issues, labour inspection bodies cooperate with national health authorities.
(3) The management board of the single agricultural cooperatives, members and other workers in the single agricultural cooperatives, individual farmers and other workers in their establishments are required to allow the inspection of the work of their tasks, provide them with the necessary explanations and provide the relevant documents.
General and final provisions.
Research in the field of safety at work in agriculture is carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture by its research institutes.
(1) The Minister for Agriculture will issue more detailed provisions for the implementation of this Act in agreement with the ministers involved; in particular, define the tasks of the agricultural administrations (trade unions) of the national committees.
(2) In implementing this law, the Ministry of Agriculture and the executive bodies of the National Committees shall act in close cooperation with the bodies of the Single Trade Union Organisation.
Staff (apprentices) of single agricultural cooperatives and individual farm farmers are not covered by Act No. 67 / 1951 Coll., on Safety at Work.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; it shall be implemented by the Minister for Agriculture in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
Zaporocký v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Broad v. r.
Uher v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 51 / 1954 Coll., on Safety at Work in Uniform Agricultural Cooperatives and for Individual Farmers |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 25.11.1954 |
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| Effective from | 25.11.1954 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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