Act No. 65 / 1961 Coll.
Law on Safety and Health at Work
Valid
Effective from 01.09.1961
65
THE LAW
of 27 June 1961
on safety and health at work
The victory of socialism in our homeland, achieved by the working people under the leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has created the preconditions that, in the period of the construction of an advanced socialist society in which other forces are gathering and creating new material and cultural resources for the future transition to communism, the conditions for further increasing and deepening human care in the spirit of the Constitution of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic will continue to be strengthened in all respects.
An integral part of this effort is the planned and systematic development of all-round care for safety and health at work and the improvement of working conditions, in particular the working environment, in line with the assumptions created by the current development and prospects for further development of our society.
The effective development of this care requires that the responsibility of all bodies managing work and organising production, as well as the responsibility of national committees for the continuous improvement of safety and health at work, be enhanced by the active participation of workers, the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and other social organisations in addressing health and safety issues at work and the implementation of measures leading to their continued improvement.
To achieve these objectives The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
Basic provisions
(1) The care of health and safety at work and the constant improvement of working conditions in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic is an equal and inseparable part of the planning and performance of manufacturing and other tasks. Therefore, all authorities planning or setting up work, organising, managing and controlling work are required to continuously create conditions for safe and sound work, for preventing accidents at work and occupational diseases, as well as diseases arising from the work environment.
(2) The widest participation and creative initiative of workers, the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and other social organisations are essential for the continuous and effective improvement of safety and health at work and other working conditions, in particular the working environment.
(3) National committees, as State authorities and as the widest organisations of workers, are responsible for the organisation of economic and cultural construction in their territory for the continuous improvement of safety and health at work in all their workplaces.
All institutions which take care of safety and health at work carry out their tasks in the narrowest cooperative cooperation, helping each other and consistently building on active participation and creative initiative of workers.
The evaluation of the results of work and its remuneration shall also take into account how safety and health at work has been ensured.
(1) Health and safety at work under this Act is provided for workers in all sectors of the national economy, members of single agricultural cooperatives, members of production cooperatives, apprentices, pupils, students in teaching, in particular in polytechnical education and manufacturing in school teaching, temporary staff and other workers in other institutions and organisations.
(2) Education and education for safe work and health at work are also provided in schools and educational establishments. Teachers, pupils and listeners of vocational and higher education institutions, in particular in the technical sense, are provided with the teaching of safety and health at work by adjusting their curriculum and curriculum.
(3) Women, adolescents, persons with reduced working capacity and persons working under particularly difficult conditions (under ground, in hot plants, in places where there are excessive harmful effects or where workers are exposed to harmful radiation or to an increased risk of disease, etc.) are also provided for the safety and health of their work by a special adjustment to their working conditions, such as the modification and distribution of working time, specific hygiene and protection measures or the setting of work to which they may not be employed.
Responsibility and tasks in increasing health and safety care at work
(1) All the authorities that plan or set work tasks, organise, manage and control work are responsible for ensuring safety and health at work and for improving working conditions, in particular the working environment. In order to fulfil these obligations, managers at all stages (directors of the association, directors of undertakings and establishments, managers of other organisations, managers of operations, masters, leaders of the group, etc.), as well as all other persons in charge of the organisation, management and control of work are personally responsible for their duties and duties.
(2) In addition, the heads of senior bodies shall be responsible for directing, coordinating, managing and regularly carrying out checks on the compliance of undertakings and establishments subordinate to them with the rules on safety and health at work and measures to improve the working environment and other working conditions. They are also responsible for directing research and development as well as health and safety at work.
(3) In production cooperatives, the Board of Directors is responsible for the safety and health of the work and, in addition, all persons responsible for organising, managing and controlling the work (heads of plants, establishments, masters, etc.) in the sections of its activities.
(4) All workers responsible for safety and health at work are required to rely consistently on the participation and creative initiative of workers, the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and other social organisations in their activities. They shall, in particular, be required to carefully address the initiatives and notifications of workers and to discuss all issues of safety and health at work with all workers concerned and to address them responsibly.
(1) The authorities responsible for safety and health at work are required to ensure a comprehensive increase in the level of safety and health at work, at the same time as the development of production, and to consistently apply the principles of safety and health at work in all parts of their activity, in particular in the planning and determination of tasks, in the creation of conditions for their implementation and in their performance and control. They are therefore obliged to apply these principles in particular:
(a) preparing supporting documents and drawing up draft plans for the development of the national economy, industry, business and plant plans;
(b) when carrying out revisions of technical equipment as an integral part of preventive maintenance;
(c) in the design, construction and reconstruction of establishments, in the putting into service of new capacities and equipment, as well as in the maintenance and repair of buildings, equipment and workplaces, in order to comply with the rules on safety and health at work and not to be taken over and put into service or left in the use of buildings, premises, machinery and equipment which do not comply with those rules;
(d) in the determination of parameters, design, construction, manufacture and import of machinery, operating equipment, protective equipment, work equipment and tools, and in their repair and maintenance and, where appropriate, reconstruction;
(e) in determining development, research and thematic tasks and in designing and implementing new technological and working procedures;
(f) the organisation and control of the work;
(g) when developing technical economic standards, also taking into account the requirements of labour physiology;
(h) the organisation of wages, the creation of wage regulations, the choice of forms of pay, the fixing of remuneration for solving development, research and thematic tasks;
(i) in the continuous education of workers, in particular youth and apprentices, newly recruited workers and workers moving to new workplaces or new types and ways of work, as well as in the education of workers responsible for occupational safety and health at work;
(j) when deploying workers, taking into account their abilities and health status, and when selecting workers to be entrusted with organising and managing work.
(2) In order to improve safety and health at work, responsible authorities shall also:
(a) to establish and maintain the necessary facilities and to implement the necessary technical and organisational measures according to the latest knowledge of science and technology;
(b) replace physically very strenuous and risky work by new procedures, mechanisation, automation, hermetization, etc.,
(c) report in advance to the competent authorities of the State's professional surveillance the extension and change of production, in particular in the technological process;
(d) to provide workers with the necessary and effective means of protection free of charge, to ensure their use and to maintain them in the applicable state;
(e) to check continuously how safety and health at work is ensured and the level of health is increased and to address rapidly the deficiencies identified;
(f) constantly instruct the staff responsible for organising and managing work, as well as all other staff, in particular workers at risk workplaces, and regularly verify their knowledge of the rules on safety and health at work;
(g) to identify and eliminate without delay the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases.
(3) In the comprehensive analysis of the results of work, the responsible authorities are also required to ascertain whether the principles of safety and health at work have been respected during the work process and to implement effective measures to address identified defects.
(1) Where the Director of an undertaking or establishment establishes, in accordance with the specific production conditions of an expert, to assist him in the performance of tasks related to safety and health at work, it shall be without prejudice to his or her own responsibility or the responsibility of other managers.
(2) The appointment of a professional worker (paragraph 1) does not affect the competence of special bodies, such as crane referees, anti-dusty technicians, revision technicians of electrical equipment, etc.
The public transport authorities are obliged to ensure safety in rail, road, urban and other transport services, to continuously increase its level and to improve safety and hygiene measures.
Mass incentives to increase health and safety care at work
(1) Knowledge of the rules on safety and health at work must be an integral and permanent part of the qualification requirements laid down for the purposes of remuneration.
(2) When granting premiums and other remuneration, account shall be taken of workers' compliance with the rules on safety and health at work.
(1) In determining salaries, as well as in granting premiums and other remuneration to managers and other economic and technical staff, the point of view shall also apply as to how these workers, in the performance of their tasks, create conditions for the continuous improvement of safety and health at work.
(2) Researchers, designers, designers, improvements, inventors, etc.
(1) In assessing the results of socialist competition, in awarding rewards to the winners of this competition, as well as in deciding on the size of the shares in the farm funds of workers and similar funds, the principle of unity between production and safety and health at work at the plant must be based on the principle of unity.
(2) The means intended for extraordinary rewards and rewards for winners in socialist competition should also be used for the physical participation of individuals or collective in improving the health and safety of workers.
Workers' participation in occupational safety and health protection
(1) Workers are actively involved in addressing all issues related to the implementation and control of occupational safety and health care. In particular:
(a) discuss and propose, in the context of participation in the preparation and drawing up of all plans and their breakdown and monitoring of the implementation of measures aimed at improving safety and health at work;
(b) participate in the drawing up of forward-looking plans to develop safety and health at work and improve the working environment;
(c) require, when drawing up and concluding collective agreements and workshops, commitments to improve safety and health at work,
(d) discuss, with the participation of representatives of the plants and, where appropriate, other economic authorities, at production meetings, meetings and meetings of workers in the establishments and at the workplace, the state of safety and health at work, the initiatives and initiatives to improve them and check what measures the management of the plant has taken on the basis of the proposals submitted and the resolutions adopted at those meetings and production meetings;
(e) participate in the identification and management of thematic tasks aimed at safety and health at work;
(f) make use of the improving and innovative movement and other forms of participation of workers in production management in order to contribute also to the continuous improvement of safety and health conditions at work in the workplace;
(g) discuss regularly safety and health issues at work at technical and economic conferences;
(h) contribute to innovative proposals and initiatives to ensure that the activities of social organisations at the plant are also aimed at continuously improving occupational safety and health conditions in the development of new techniques;
(i) propose that important issues of safety and health at work be discussed in the Technical and Economic Councils and check whether the measures taken are implemented by the plant management;
(j) participate in, actively co-operate with, and check that the conclusions of, the internal safety and health checks are being carried out;
(k) participate in the various workplace activities of occupational safety and health patrols;
(l) contact the persons responsible for the management, organisation and control of the work in the plant, directly or directly to the safety and health authorities at work with proposals for the disposal of a machine or device or to stop work if their life or health is at risk;
(m) require rapid and impartial identification of the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases.
(2) Workers shall be obliged to:
(a) comply with the regulations, orders, prohibitions and other guidelines for the protection of health and safety at work with which they have been duly informed, as well as with the established working procedures;
(b) use protective equipment and protective equipment at work;
(c) notify the management of the establishment or the supervisory authorities of deficiencies and defects which could endanger safety or health at work;
(d) participate in training and training carried out by the plant in order to improve safety and health at work;
(e) undergo specified tests and medical examinations.
(1) The effective application of active participation of workers in all issues related to the implementation and control of health and safety care at work is ensured by the organizational and educational activities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement. The authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, as workers' representatives, are consistently concerned with the state of health and safety care at work and cooperate with all the authorities involved in ensuring it and in educating workers for safe and healthy work.
(2) Relations between the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and the enterprises and establishments and other economic and state bodies are also developing by the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement:
(a) co-operate with regard to safety and health at work in drawing up draft plans and co-decide on the use of the means planned for safety and health at work;
(b) co-operate in terms of safety and health at work in the organisation of checks on the design, manufacture, removal and verification of prototypes of machinery, machinery and tools;
(c) assess, in terms of safety and health at work, investment units, machinery and equipment when they are put into service and new technologies when they are put into operation;
(d) organise, together with the management of the undertaking and the establishment, education of workers for safe and healthy work and for labour discipline, in particular ensuring that technical and economic propaganda is used consistently to improve safety and health at work;
(e) co-operate in determining and announcing thematic tasks aimed at occupational safety and health and co-decide on the setting and award of remuneration for their resolution;
(f) ensure that the draft collective agreements and conventions contain commitments to improve safety and health at work;
(g) organise occupational safety and health patrols.
(3) The Central Board of Trade Unions
(a) express its views on the plans for the research and development tasks drawn up by the central authorities and make binding proposals for them to deal with safety and health at work;
(b) establish research institutes for the safety of work as required, establish their organisation and work capacity;
(c) express its views on the prototypes and the quality of the protective equipment produced,
(d) outsource the production of films and other promotional means of greater importance from the field of safety and health at work.
Supervision of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement
(1) Supervision of safety and health at work is exercised by the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement in enterprises and establishments, in particular by their elected bodies. The supervisory organisation shall be the responsibility of the Central Board of Trade Unions.
(2) In the performance of safety and health oversight at work, the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement in particular:
(a) regularly check the plant and plant for workers and ensure that the management of the plant and business as well as the workers properly fulfil their obligations under the principles of safety and health at work;
(b) give binding instructions to establishments and higher economic authorities to remedy defects and, where necessary, to order the immediate disposal of the defective machine or equipment, or to stop work;
(c) the initiatives recommend addressing specific R & D tasks in the field of safety and health at work, overseeing the focus of such research and development, assessing their results and overseeing the use and certification of these results in practice;
(d) agree to overtime and night work according to the relevant regulations;
(e) participate in the investigation of the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases and, where appropriate, investigate them themselves, analyse them, discuss them with economic authorities and give them binding instructions for their removal;
(f) make proposals to apply substantive, disciplinary and, where appropriate, criminal liability to workers who fail to fulfil their obligations under the rules on safety and health at work.
(3) They shall immediately inform the competent national committee of the measures taken by the authorities of the surveillance of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement directly in the races managed by the national committees.
(4) The costs of monitoring safety and health at work as well as the costs of research carried out in this section by the research institutes of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement are borne by the State.
The revolutionary trade union movement also oversees safety and health at work in production cooperatives. In carrying out this supervision, the supervisory authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement rely on the labour safety and health committees chosen by the workers of these cooperatives.
Tasks of national committees
(1) The national committees shall ensure that health and safety are continuously improved at work in all the establishments of their district; in particular:
(a) check regularly the state of safety and health at work and discuss issues of safety and health at work as an integral part of the analysis of the implementation of the economic development plan in their respective districts;
(b) establish the conditions for a permanent increase in road and urban transport safety;
(c) lead the health authorities to increase preventive health care at work, to effectively prevent occupational diseases and to actively exploit the knowledge and warnings of those authorities;
(d) when recommending workers to vacancies, take account of aspects of occupational safety and health.
(2) The national committees also carry out their activities in the field of safety and health at work through their commissions, Members and citizens' assets, or set up advisory bodies from these assets, and organise awareness-raising and promotion activities to improve the health and safety of workers in their district.
(3) The national committees shall be entitled to request from the competent economic authorities reports and explanations and from the authorities supervising safety and health at work an opinion on the state of safety and health at work in individual undertakings and establishments and to require the economic authorities to implement appropriate measures to improve and, where appropriate, to request that workers who have infringed their obligations in order to ensure safety and health at work be brought about by disciplinary action and, where appropriate, to seek compensation under the applicable rules.
(4) The national committees shall be entitled to require the authorities of the state of professional supervision to carry out an inspection in the undertaking or establishment and to report its outcome.
(1) In the sector of the economy directly managed by the national committees, the national committees shall also be responsible for carrying out the tasks which the authorities of undertakings and establishments have in all sectors of the national economy. In particular, national committees
(a) regulate, coordinate, manage and control the safety and health at work and improve working conditions in undertakings and establishments subordinate to them;
(b) monitor the amount of funds spent on such undertakings and on plant health and safety at work and check that they are effectively spent;
(c) ensure that health and safety aspects are enshrined in the statutes and rules of organisation of these undertakings.
(2) National Committees may, as appropriate, establish expert referendums for the sectors they manage on occupational safety and health issues.
Health and safety at work in single agricultural cooperatives
(1) In single agricultural cooperatives, the Board of Directors is responsible for the safety and health at work and, in addition, for the sections of its activities, for all persons responsible for organising, managing and controlling work (agronomists, working groups, etc.).
(2) In order to ensure safety and health at work in the single agricultural cooperatives, the individual members of the cooperative shall contribute to the task of the Board of Directors, in particular as its bodies, to carry out inspections of the workplaces, to report identified defects, to propose measures to improve safety and health at work and to participate in the detection of the causes of accidents at work and of education working for safe and healthy work.
(3) Each single agricultural cooperative of its members elects a Commission on Safety and Health at Work to capture and exploit the creative initiative of the whole member group. Its task is to continuously address issues of safety and health at work and to effectively assist the board and individual cooperative leaders in their resolution.
(1) National Committees shall ensure that health and safety at work are continuously improved in single agricultural cooperatives and shall also benefit from all the authorisations which they are entitled to exercise national supervision over the activities of single agricultural cooperatives. When approving the statutes of these cooperatives, the national committees are required to ensure that they also include aspects of safety and health at work.
(2) The Regional National Committees provide for expert referendums on safety and health issues at work in agriculture.
(3) The issues of safety and health at work in single agricultural cooperatives are addressed as an integral part of the performance of production tasks in agriculture in particular by the agricultural committee of the national committees. To discuss issues of safety and health at work in single agricultural cooperatives, the agricultural committees of the national committees invite experts from the regional national committees on safety and health at work in agriculture, the supervisory authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and the officials of uniform agricultural cooperatives. The agricultural committee of local national committees plays a particularly important role in addressing these issues.
The regional national committees, assisted by the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, are responsible for overseeing the state of health and safety at the work of working uniform agricultural cooperatives.
The supervisory authority which has carried out the inspection in the single agricultural cooperative shall always discuss the results of the inspection with the cooperative body responsible for safety and health at work (the board of directors and, where appropriate, the chairman of the single agricultural cooperative, etc.). If there is no agreement in this negotiation to remedy the deficiencies identified and the period within which the State is to take place, the on-the-spot surveillance authority shall only order the immediate implementation of the measures. The other defects shall be notified, with their proposals, to the local national committee, which shall then itself order that the necessary measures be implemented within the prescribed time limit. The supervisory authority shall inform the local national committee immediately of the urgent measures taken, as well as of the serious deficiencies identified, the removal of which has been agreed, so that the local national committee can monitor and control the correction.
The revolutionary trade union movement, in particular its basic organisations, shall contribute to the provision of safety and health at work and other forms of its activities, in particular the exercise of patronage activities, to the single agricultural cooperatives.
In order to improve safety and health at work in single agricultural cooperatives, machinery and tractor stations are required to carry out a technical advisory service for single agricultural cooperatives and regularly check the machinery and mechanisation park of single agricultural cooperatives. Unified agricultural cooperatives are obliged to allow machinery and tractor stations to control machinery.
Unless otherwise provided for in this Section, the provisions of Sections 1 and 2, Section 4 (12) and Sections 6, 8 and 9 shall apply to the single agricultural cooperatives and to the provisions of Sections 3 and 6.
State expert supervision on individual sections
(1) State professional occupational safety and health surveillance shall be carried out by the State Technical Supervision Authorities, the State Mining Administration and, within their professional competence, the Sanitary and Anti-Epidemic Services, the State Fire Protection Authorities and the Ministry of Transport and Communications authorities.
(2) All these bodies shall exercise their supervision in a planned and continuous manner, taking into account the safety and health requirements at work. They contribute to the upbringing of workplaces subject to their supervision and to the upbringing of workers involved in building design and construction, production and assembly of production and operation facilities.
(3) The authorities of the State shall be entitled to participate in the design, construction, manufacture and entry into service of machines and equipment subject to their supervision, to check their status by continuous and planned inspections, to take measures to remedy the deficiencies identified and to communicate their experience to the competent authorities so that they can be used for planning and technical development.
(1) National technical surveillance authorities shall give binding instructions to undertakings and establishments to remedy the deficiencies identified in the supervision and shall be entitled to order the disposal of machines and equipment subject to their supervision if the life or health of workers is at risk.
(2) Serial production of machinery and equipment subject to state technical supervision under specific regulations may be undertaken only with the consent of its authorities.
(3) The national technical surveillance authorities shall cooperate with other supervisory authorities on inspections and inspections in undertakings and establishments.
General and final provisions
(1) The provisions of a security technical nature shall be issued by ministries and other central authorities in agreement with the central committees of the relevant trade unions; where the rules applicable to work fields falling within the competence of several ministries or other central bodies or general rules are issued in agreement with the Central Council of Trade Unions.
(2) The Central Council of trade unions is entitled to propose to ministries and other central authorities to issue regulations of a security technical nature. The ministries and other central authorities shall comply with these proposals. Where rules of a security technical nature are to apply to work fields falling within the competence of several ministries or other central authorities, the Central Council of Trade Unions shall be entitled to propose to the Government which the Ministry or other Central Office is to issue those rules.
(3) Czechoslovak state standards (CSN) must also include detailed provisions of a security technical nature for the construction and use of machinery and equipment or for the implementation and use of working and technological procedures adapted by the standard.
(1) The legislation will regulate the working conditions of women, adolescents, persons with altered working capacity and persons working under particularly difficult conditions (Section 4 (3)).
(2) Specific provisions also provide for measures to improve safety and health at work on the labour pay section (Sections 9 to 11).
The Central Council of Trade Unions shall lay down rules for the implementation of this Act.
(1) They are repealed.
(a) Act No. 67 / 1951 Coll., on Safety at Work,
(b) Act No. 51 / 1954 Coll., on Safety at Work in Uniform Agricultural Cooperatives and for Individual Farmers;
(c) Act No. 72 / 1959 Coll., on the supervision of safety at work in production cooperatives,
(d) Government Decree No. 11 / 1954 Coll., on Changes in the scope of the Act on Safety at Work,
(e) Decree No 206 / 1952 of the Ú. l., on the operational security services of undertakings.
(2) Without prejudice to the competence of the national professional supervision bodies provided for in specific provisions.
This Act shall take effect on 1 September 1961.
Novotný v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Broad v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 65 / 1961 Coll., on Safety and Health at Work |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 07.07.1961 |
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| Effective from | 01.09.1961 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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