Act No. 67 / 1951 Coll.
Law on Safety at Work
Valid
Effective from 30.07.1951
67.
Law
of 12 July 1951
on safety at work.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
The purpose of the law.
(1) The purpose of this Act is to ensure the safety of workers and apprentices ("workers") at work, thereby contributing to the development of their creative forces, to increasing labour productivity and to further increasing the material and cultural level of the working people.
(2) Therefore, the supervision of occupational safety is entrusted primarily to workers and broadens and deepens the care of safety and health measures at work in accordance with the latest knowledge of science and technology.
Obligations of management.
(1) Business management is responsible for ensuring safe and healthy work. In particular, in order to ensure that workers in a safe and healthy environment achieve the least effort to achieve the best work results, management is obliged to:
(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 secondary plant facilities for workers (in racers' homes, hostels, kitchens, canteens, manger etc.);
(b) take care of the education of workers for safe and healthy work while paying special attention to newly recruited workers;
(c) identify and eliminate the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases in the establishment, keep records of them and immediately notify serious accidents to supervisors and supervisory authorities;
(d) ensure that production equipment and work equipment manufactured in factories comply with the rules on safety and health at work.
(2) In order to carry out the tasks relating to safety at work, the management of the undertaking shall establish, in agreement with the safety authorities at work at the premises and facilities designated by the relevant ministries, security techniques. Security technicians shall perform their tasks in cooperation with the authorities of the Single Trade Union Organisation.
Workers' duties.
(1) Workers are obliged to do their work in such a way that they do not endanger the life and health of their co-workers. In order to identify deficiencies in the plant that may endanger the safety or health of workers, they must be notified to the management of the undertaking and to the authorities of the single trade union.
(2) Workers shall be required to participate in training, conducted by the management of the undertaking in the interests of their safety at work, and to undergo the prescribed examinations and medical examinations.
Tasks of national committees.
National committees monitor working conditions in their constituency and assist in creating assumptions for safe and healthy work.
Job inspection.
(1) Labour safety oversight is carried out by a single trade union organisation by its labour inspection bodies.
(2) The scope of the labour inspection bodies applies to all workplaces and secondary facilities, including workshops and laboratories of professional and university schools and institutes (hereinafter referred to as "establishments").
(3) The Unified Trade Union Organisation also conducts expert research in the field of safety at work.
(4) The personal and material costs of carrying out an inspection of work and professional research are borne by the State.
(1) In particular, labour safety inspection bodies assist the workers' and management board. They shall in particular:
(a) to continuously inspect the establishments and secondary facilities and to ensure that the management and the workers fulfil their obligations under this law and to ensure that dangerous and hard work is replaced by machine work;
(b) order the removal of detected defects and, if there is a danger of delay, order the disposal of machines or stop work;
(c) issue more detailed directives and guidelines on safety at work for each plant, excluding transport undertakings;
(d) to allow exemptions from the provisions on working time and the way in which women and adolescents are employed for individual establishments and businesses, within the limits of statutory rules;
(e) to cooperate with national committees and undertakings in the design, construction and authorisation of plants and start-up operations.
(2) On health issues, labour inspection bodies cooperate with national health authorities.
(3) Labour inspection authorities may impose fines in block proceedings on persons who have infringed labour safety rules in accordance with the relevant rules of administrative criminal law.
(4) The management of the undertaking and the workers shall be obliged to allow the authorities to inspect the work of their tasks, provide them with the necessary explanations and provide documents.
(1) The Unified Trade Union Organisation shall, on request and within 15 days of the measures taken by the labour inspection authorities (Paragraph 6 (1)), examine and amend or revoke them.
(2) The Single Trade Union Organisation shall define the tasks of its labour inspection bodies by means of directives approved by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in agreement with the central authorities involved.
Technical supervision.
The technical safety oversight of mining and aviation and of certain technical installations designated by specific regulations shall be carried out by the competent Ministry in cooperation with the Single Trade Union Organisation.
Medical inspection.
The tasks of health inspection and occupational medicine fall within the competence of the Ministry of Health. Supervision of health at work (health inspections) is carried out by national health authorities in cooperation with stakeholders, in particular labour inspection authorities.
Common and final provisions.
(1) Competent ministries in their field of competence
(a) issue in agreement with the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and a unified trade union organisation detailed regulations on occupational safety for the relevant fields of work;
(b) designate technical supervision bodies (Section 8).
(2) The regulations required for the implementation of this Act, which apply to work fields falling within the competence of several ministries, are issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare in agreement with the participating ministries and a unified trade union organisation.
(3) The role of the mining authorities in issuing safety regulations at work remains unaffected.
(1) The Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare shall establish a Coordination Body on Safety and Health at Work.
(2) The Coordination Board is responsible for ensuring the uniform implementation of the tasks under this law and is discussing fundamental issues relating to several fields of work.
(3) The Coordination Board is composed of representatives of the participating ministries and a single trade union organisation. The details of the composition, competence and conduct of this College shall be laid down by the Government.
(1) The provisions relating to the matters governed by this Law shall be repealed, in particular:
1. Paragraph 1157 of the General Civil Code as amended by Regulation No 69 / 1916;
2. Paragraph 170 to 172 of the General Mining Act No 146 / 1854, as far as they concern workers;
3. § 74 to 74d) of the Trade Code No 227 / 1859 * * as amended by Law No 74 / 1913 * *;
4. Law No 117 / 1883, on the establishment of business overseers;
5. the Act XXVIII / 1893 on the Protection of Industrial and Industrial Workers against Accidents and Industrial Supervisors as amended by Act No. 47 / 1921 Coll.;
6. Paragraph 5 and 6 of Law No 156 / 1902, which govern the working conditions of workers employed in overheads of railways and in their auxiliary institutions;
7. provision § 30 to 32 of Act No. 29 / 1920 Coll., on the modification of the working and wage conditions of domestic labour;
8. Paragraph 11 of Act No. 244 / 1922 Coll., which generally regulates the legal situation between employers and employees in Slovakia;
9. Paragraph 102 of the Trade Act for the territory of Slovakia No. 259 / 1924 Coll.;
10. Government Decree No. 60 / 1929 Coll., establishing a Commission on Technical and Health Protection for Workers and Other Workers;
11. Paragraph 28 of the Act on Private Employees No 154 / 1934 Coll.;
12. provision § § 96 to 99 of the National Insurance Act No. 99 / 1948 Coll.,
and that, in general, in the manner that follows from the regulations is changing and complementary.
(2) The provisions of the law shall be applied in accordance with the existing provisions, unless they are contrary to the law.
This Law shall take effect on the date of its publication, with the exception of the provisions of Sections 5 (1) and 7 (1), which shall take effect on 1 January 1952; It shall be carried out by the Minister for Labour and Social Welfare and by participating members of the Government.
Gottwald v. r.
Dr John v. r.
Zaporocký v. r.
Erban v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 67 / 1951 Coll., on Safety at Work |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 30.07.1951 |
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| Effective from | 30.07.1951 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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