Decree No. 83 / 1961 Coll.
Decree of the Central Council of Trade Unions on the tasks of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and National Committees in the exercise of supervision and care of health and safety at work
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83
DECLARATION
Central Trade Union Councils
of 14 July 1961
on the tasks of the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and of the National Committees in the exercise of supervision and care for safety and health at work
In agreement with the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and in agreement with the participating central authorities pursuant to Sections 14 and 29 of Act No. 65 / 1961 Coll., on Safety and Health at Work (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"):
Organisation of surveillance of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement for Safety and Health at Work
Body of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement in charge of occupational safety and health
(1) The revolutionary trade union movement is responsible for the supervision of safety and health at work by the following elected bodies:
(a) race and workshop committees of basic organisations, local committees of local organisations and confidants;
(b) district trade union councils and regional trade union committees;
(c) regional trade union councils and regional trade union committees;
(d) central trade union committees;
(e) the Slovak Trade Union Council;
(f) The Central Council of Trade Unions.
(2) The auxiliary and advisory bodies of all the elected bodies referred to in paragraph 1 are, in particular, the labour safety and health committees established under the Directives of the Central Council of Trade Unions.
(3) The elected authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement shall use labour safety inspectors who are elected in the bodies referred to in paragraph 1 (a) and appointed in the bodies referred to in paragraph 1 (b) to (d) in accordance with the principles laid down by the Central Council of Trade Unions.
Joint tasks of the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement in the exercise of the supervision and responsibility of occupational safety and health
(1) The authorities referred to in Section 1 (hereinafter referred to as "ROH") in the exercise of the safety and health oversight of the work referred to in Section 14 of the Act shall continuously monitor compliance with the obligations arising from it and check how the authorities planning or setting out the work tasks organise, manage and control the work, continuously create conditions of safe and healthy work.
(2) The ROH authorities lead the workers to participate actively in the care of their life and health at work and ensure that the incentives of workers to improve such care are used as effectively as possible.
(3) The scope of the ROH bodies applies to all workplaces including the workplaces of production cooperatives, to the workplaces of pupils and students in polytechnical education and production, to workshops and laboratories of research institutes and to general education, professional and university institutions, as well as to sanitary, social and other racing facilities for workers. The scope of the ROH authorities also applies to all units of single agricultural cooperatives within the scope laid down by the Act (Sections 20 and 22 of the Act).
(4) The ROH authorities are entitled to require that the regulations and principles of safety and health at work be complied with, in particular in the preparation of supporting documents and the design of plans for enterprises and plants, in the design of construction and reconstruction of establishments, in the putting into service of new capacities and equipment, in the construction and modification of machinery and machinery, in the characterisation and manufacture of working, operating and protective equipment, in the organisation of work and in the training of workers.
(5) Undertakings, research and design institutes and other organisations are required to submit plans, projects and technical documentation on safety and health at work to the ROH authorities in due time, to provide the necessary explanations and to address their comments responsibly.
(6) ROH authorities are entitled to give management and higher economic authorities, in accordance with the rules on safety and health at work, binding instructions to remedy defects which may cause or cause accidents at work, occupational disease or otherwise endanger workers' health.
Tasks of race, workshop and local committees of basic organisations of ROH
(1) In the exercise of the supervision of safety and health at work, the racing, workshop and local committees in basic trade unions (hereinafter referred to as "racing, workshop and local committees") lead workers to respect the rules and principles of safety and health at work and ensure that these rules and principles are consistently applied by the authorities of the plant responsible for safety and health at work in all parts of their activity.
In particular:
(a) ensure that the responsible authorities of the establishment fulfil their obligations under the law and other regulations on safety and health at work, technical standards, collective agreements and conventions, plans for health measures and new knowledge of science and technology, as well as the guidelines issued by supervisory authorities to ensure safe and healthy work;
(b) cooperate with the management of the plant to ensure the highest level of safety and health at work, in the preparation of supporting documents and in the drawing up of draft plant plans; to this end they shall co-decide on the use of the means planned for safety and health at work at the plant,
(c) discuss regularly, in their meetings, matters of safety and health at work at the plant and include the most serious of them on the agenda of the meetings of the members of the trade union, in particular analyses of the state and development of accidents at work, the causes of fatal, severe and mass accidents at work; inform workers at these meetings of the measures taken to improve safety and health at work;
(d) organise, in cooperation with the management of the plant, the education of workers for safe and healthy work and lead workers to respect personal and occupational discipline;
(e) ensure that collective agreements and conventions contain specific commitments to the management of the plant to improve the protection of the life and health of workers and the working environment, examine the fulfilment of those obligations;
(f) regularly check workplaces, hygienic, social and other plant facilities for workers, identify sites and sources of danger, keep records of them, draw attention to identified defects in the management and require them to be removed;
(g) cooperate with the management of the plant in determining and announcing thematic tasks aimed at safety and health at work and in deciding to establish and award remuneration for their resolution;
(h) participate in the identification of the sources and causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases and, where appropriate, investigate them themselves, analyse them, discuss them with the responsible authorities of the establishment and give them binding instructions to eliminate them; in assessing and investigating the causes of occupational diseases, cooperate with the relevant departments of hygienic-epidemiological centres and other health facilities;
ch) generalise the experience of the activities of the Brigades of Socialist Work and ensure that, when assessing the results of the Inter-racing Socialist competition, when awarding rewards to the winners of this competition, the results and the level of safety and health at work at the plant are taken into account;
(i) require that, when granting premiums and other remuneration, the management of the plant take into account the compliance of the plant managers and workers with the rules on safety and health at work;
(j) ensure compliance with the resolutions of the higher trade unions on the field of safety and health at work and check how the management of the plant performs the tasks laid down by the higher economic authorities;
k) lead the racing branches of the Czechoslovak Scientific and Technical Society to plan their activities to improve technical measures to improve the working environment as necessary;
(l) in accordance with the relevant regulations, the injured party and the management of the establishment shall be entitled to compensation for accidents at work or occupational disease which the injured party claims against the management of the establishment.
(2) Racing, workshop and local committees organise labour safety patrols, manage and direct their activities, and ensure that their work focuses in particular on compliance with workplace order, on compliance with technological discipline, safety and hygiene rules and principles of safe and healthy work and on the use of protective equipment. With the experience gained from the work of labour security patrols, they identify trade union assets and lead them to organise a wide participation of workers in the management of safety and health problems at work. They shall ensure that job security guards are closely involved in the organisation of labour security patrols.
(3) Racing, workshop and local committees assist the single agricultural cooperatives in ensuring safe and healthy work through their patronage activities, both through the transfer of knowledge and experience from the plants and through their expertise; contribute to addressing safety and technical deficiencies in machinery and machinery and to improving the working environment of cooperative, hygienic, social and other cooperative facilities for workers.
(1) In carrying out tasks arising from the supervision of safety and health at work, the Racing, Workshop and Local Committees control the working environment, technical, protective and hygienic equipment and protective equipment at work, in operational areas, in sanitary, social and other plant facilities for workers and require that the management of the plant consistently fulfils the obligations set out in Section 6 of the Act.
(2) In addition, racing and workshop committees of machinery and tractor stations require station management to carry out a technical advisory service for single agricultural cooperatives and to regularly check the machinery and mechanisation park of single agricultural cooperatives; lead the working machinery and tractor stations to contribute with their experience to increasing the care of safe and healthy work of members of single agricultural cooperatives.
(1) Racing, workshops and local committees in the performance of their tasks:
(a) send their representatives to discuss the management of the plant (workshop), which are the subject of issues relating to safety and health at work and to expert examinations to verify the knowledge of the managers of economic workers and workers on the principles of safe and healthy work and the relevant rules on safety and health at work;
(b) participate with their representatives in the approval and acceptance procedure at the plant and the negotiations on the introduction of new technological working and manufacturing processes as well as performance standards, prototype management, implementation of improvements and technical standards, and apply them in terms of safety and health at work;
(c) require the management of the plant (workshop) to submit to them before the construction, conversion or modification of the plant (s) and to assess the technical project documentation and to request from the staff of the plant (s) and from the workers the explanations and presentation of the documents they need to carry out their duties;
(d) give binding instructions to the management of the plant (workshop) in accordance with the rules on safety and health at work for the removal of defects which may cause or cause accidents at work or occupational diseases and provide for a reasonable period of time to remedy such defects;
(e) propose that the management of the plant exercise material and disciplinary responsibility *) against workers who fail to fulfil their obligations under the rules on safety and health at work or, where appropriate, to propose the application of criminal liability in the event of a gross breach of those obligations, or to submit proposals for consideration to the local People's Court, * *)
(f) are entitled, when giving prior approval for overtime work and at night, to lay down the conditions under which such work may be carried out and prohibit overtime work and at night, provided that the management of the establishment has not complied with the conditions under which overtime work was allowed and at night; for the night work of women, they shall monitor compliance with the conditions under which such work has been authorised by the Central Committee of the Trade Union and, if deficiencies are detected, shall be brought to the attention of that authority.
(2) Racing (workshop) committees in project, research and development and construction organisations lead the members of the trade union to consistently apply the aspects and requirements of safety and health at work when carrying out their tasks in the design, research, development and construction.
(3) Racing, workshop and local committees are authorised to prohibit, where necessary, the use of malfunctioning machinery and operating equipment or working practices, or to prohibit further work at a hazardous workplace until the fault has been remedied. Such a measure must be immediately notified to the workshop management and the racing committee. If these measures are taken by a race (local) committee, the management of the race shall inform the district trade union council and the district trade union committee or the regional trade union committee in serious cases. The work may only be resumed with the agreement of the Committee on the race (workshop, local).
Auxiliary, advisory and executive bodies of the racing, workshop and local committee
(1) In the exercise of safety and health oversight at work, the Racing, Workshop and Local Committees organise the participation of workers in the creation of conditions of safe and healthy work and check how the management of the plant solves the ideas of workers to improve the working environment.
(2) In organising the participation of workers in the provision of safety and health issues at work, the racing, workshop and local committees shall rely on trade union assets, in particular the Commission on Safety and Health at Work, section confidants, job security confidants and labour security guards.
(3) The Racing, Workshop and Local Committees elect from among their members a competitive, workshop or local labour safety inspector, who is usually Chairman of the Commission on Safety and Health at Work. The function of racing, workshop and local labour safety inspectors is honorable.
(4) Racial, workshop and local labour safety inspectors are the executive bodies of the racing, workshop and local committees in charge of safety and health at work; they shall follow the instructions of the racing, workshop and local committee and shall be responsible for their activities.
(5) Racial, workshop and local labour safety inspectors, in cooperation with the trade union asset, help all workers to become familiar with the rules on safety and health at work and with the principles of safe and healthy work and to lead them to be observed. They shall check how the measures taken by the racing, workshop and local committee are being taken at the workplace and whether the management of the establishment complies with the mandatory guidelines imposed on it to address the safety and health deficiencies at work.
(6) Racial, workshop and local labour safety inspectors propose to the racing, workshop and local committees, where necessary, to prohibit the use of defective machinery and operating equipment or working practices, or to prohibit further work at the hazardous workplace until the fault has been remedied. In the event of an imminent threat to the health of workers or a serious breach of the safety rules, they may prohibit further work at a hazardous workplace. Such a measure must be immediately notified to the management of the plant (workshop) and to the racing committee (workshop, local). The work may only be resumed with the agreement of the Committee on the race (workshop, local).
Work security trustees
(1) The trade unions shall elect, at their membership meetings, as appropriate, labour security confidants who are the ancillary services of a section confidant.
(2) Confidentiality of labour security in particular:
(a) lead the members of the trade union to participate in the management of occupational safety and health issues, to compliance with the labour safety and health rules and the principles of safe and healthy work, and to the use of prescribed protective equipment and protective equipment;
(b) monitor the compliance of workplace facilities, sanitary, social and other plant facilities for workers and labour organisations with the rules on occupational safety and health, technical standards, fire regulations and new knowledge of science and technology;
(c) monitor whether the management of the plant trains and educates workers, in particular newly recruited and reassigned, on the safe and healthy performance of the work and allocate the required protective equipment to workers;
(d) participate in the investigation of the sources and causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases and discuss at the trade union meeting the causes of accidents at work, occupational diseases and safety and health deficiencies at work, hygiene, social and other plant facilities for workers and check how the measures imposed are implemented;
(e) concentrate the proposals and requirements of both trade union members and labour safety patrols to improve safety and health at work and submit them to, or through, the section confidant for consideration to the workshop and, where appropriate, to the racing committee.
Racing confidants
In the races in which, according to the statutes of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, a racing confidant is chosen instead of a racing committee, the supervision of safety and health at work shall be carried out to the extent set out in Sections 3 to 5 of the race confidante. Binding instructions for race management may be issued by a race confidant if the proposal for such a measure has been approved in advance by a member meeting of the basic organisation. Where necessary, the racing confidant may itself prohibit the use of defective machinery and operating equipment or operating procedures, or prohibit further work at the threatening workplace until the fault has been remedied. Such a measure must be immediately notified to the management of the plant (workshop) and members of the trade union organisation in the establishment and, in serious cases, to the higher union body. Work may be resumed only with the agreement of the member meeting of the basic organisation.
Tasks of regional trade unions
(1) Regional trade unions shall manage, organise and conduct occupational safety and health surveillance in the district.
(2) In the exercise of its powers, the Regional Trade Unions shall in particular:
(a) manage the activities of the regional trade union committees and supervise how they develop the activities of ROH racing bodies in the exercise of safety and health oversight at work;
(b) organise comprehensive checks on the health and safety at work, in particular in high occupational injury plants, with the participation of a wide-ranging asset of officials, and take measures to remedy the deficiencies identified;
(c) to improve the effectiveness of supervision carried out by ROH authorities, they plan to organise the training of trade union assets;
(d) generalise, popularize and promote good results from trade union activity, basic trade unions and labour security patrols;
(e) lead the racing committees to draw firm conclusions from accidents caused by failure to comply with the rules on safety and health at work by the management of the plants and not to permit material damage to the workers affected;
(f) discuss the state and development of accidents at work in the district and lay down the necessary measures to address the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases for trade unions and economic authorities and to discuss measures of a regional nature with the Regional National Committee;
(g) investigate the sources and causes of fatal, severe and mass accidents at work and occupational diseases, discuss them with representatives of the relevant trade union committees and with the participation of responsible economic workers and officials of the trade union organisation of the plant in which the accidents or diseases occurred. It shall inform the relevant Regional Committee of the measures provided for,
(h) organise inspections of establishments and workplaces in their district, monitor how the management of the establishment fulfils its obligations under the legal provisions, draw attention to the defects found, give binding instructions to the management of the establishment to remove them and check that the measures ordered have been implemented;
(ch) may, where necessary, prohibit the use of defective machinery and operating equipment or operating procedures, or, where appropriate, prohibit further work at a hazardous workplace until the fault has been remedied; such measures shall be immediately notified to the management of the plant and to the race or local committee;
(i) decide that the establishment does not comply with the occupational safety and health regulations required under the Staff sickness insurance rules for the payment of the premium for insurance *) and monitor whether the deficiencies for which the premium has been increased are addressed;
(j) co-operate in the identification of the assumptions for the application of State entitlements to the reimbursement of sickness insurance and pension benefits granted on account of accidents at work or occupational disease and the reimbursement of medical costs incurred on that basis;
(k) provide opinions and suggestions on safety and health at work - except as regards equipment subject to state professional supervision - in the planning, design and authorisation of buildings, equipment and machinery, in their implementation and authorisation to be put into test or continuous operation and use;
(l) submit proposals to the management of an establishment or an undertaking to apply substantive and disciplinary measures against responsible workers who fail to fulfil their obligations under the rules on safety and health at work, propose the application of criminal liability in the event of a gross breach of those obligations or submit proposals for court hearing;
(m) participate in the regional national committees to discuss the annual plans of the sectors managed by the national committees and require that they include tasks for the planned improvement of the working environment;
(n) require district national committees to discuss regularly the state and development of occupational accidents and diseases in establishments and enterprises managed by them, in single agricultural cooperatives, and to include assistance to these establishments in carrying out their tasks in the field of safety and health at work,
(o) notify the District National Committees of the results of the verifications carried out in establishments and undertakings managed by the National Committees and in single agricultural cooperatives and submit proposals for appropriate measures to address the deficiencies identified;
(p) in the interests of a comprehensive solution to all issues of safe and healthy work, they shall develop mutual cooperative relations with the authorities of state professional supervision, public security authorities, prosecutors, courts and district bodies of social organisations.
(3) The district labour safety inspectors are the executive bodies of the county trade unions in the supervision of safety and health at work. Regional Labour Safety Inspectors are workers of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement; The Regional Trade Union Council shall determine them and shall decide on their assignment to the Regional Trade Union Councils according to the resolution of the Central Council of Trade Unions.
(4) The Regional Labour Safety Inspectors shall follow the instructions of the Regional Trade Union Council in their activities and shall be responsible for their activities; are in particular obliged to:
(a) to assist the regional committees of trade unions, racing and local committees in the implementation of the resolutions of the Regional Trade Council and the higher trade unions, aimed at safety and health at work;
(b) carry out inspections of establishments and equipment of production cooperatives, in accordance with a plan drawn up by the district trade union board in cooperation with the authorities of production cooperatives, and cooperate closely with the safety and health-care committees elected by the working cooperatives;
(c) cooperate with the various departments of the district national committees, in particular with the expert on safety and health at work in agriculture, the district health and epidemiological centre and other authorities and organisations in the district.
(5) County labour security inspectors are entitled to carry out their tasks:
(a) to examine the workplace, sanitary, social and other plant facilities for workers and to require the management of the plant to eliminate the defects detected within a reasonable period of time; where necessary, they may prohibit the use of defective machinery and operating equipment or operating procedures, or, where appropriate, prohibit further work at a hazardous workplace until the fault has been remedied; such measures must be notified without delay to the racing or local committee (in the production cooperatives to the Commission for Safety and Health at Work), the plant management and the district trade union board,
(b) to investigate with the participation of a racing or local committee (in the production cooperatives of the Commission for Safety and Health at Work) or to investigate the causes of fatal, severe and mass accidents at work, or to assist in investigating the causes of other accidents at work; After consulting the management of the plant and the competitive (workshop, local) committee (in production cooperatives with the Commission for Safety and Health at Work), establish measures to eliminate them and also check compliance with the rules on registration and registration of accidents at work.
Tasks of regional trade unions
(1) In the exercise of its competence in the supervision of safety and health at work, the Regional Trade Union Council shall in particular:
(a) manage and organise the activities of trade unions in the region in the surveillance of safety and health at work;
(b) manage the activities of regional trade union committees and check how the resolutions of the Central Trade Union Committees and the Central Council of trade unions issued for safety and health at work are provided;
(c) generalise the experience gained from the work of trade unions in the region, in particular the results of the organisational activity of the trade union, the brigades of socialist work and labour security patrols;
d) lead the councils of the Czechoslovak Scientific and Technical Society in the region to plan their activities to improve technical measures to improve the working environment;
(e) monitor and control how the management of businesses and establishments and the higher economic authorities in the region fulfil their obligations in safety and health at work;
(f) discuss the state and development of accidents at work in the region and lay down measures to improve the safety and health situation at work towards trade union and economic authorities;
(g) report regularly on their activities in the supervision of safety and health at work with analysis of accidents at work and occupational diseases to the Central Council of Trade Unions and also to the Slovak Trade Union Council in Slovakia;
(h) carry out, at the request of the courts, prosecutors and other law enforcement authorities, arbitration bodies and other public authorities, expert work in the field of occupational safety;
(ch) decide that the establishment does not comply with the occupational safety and health rules required under the employee sickness insurance rules for the payment of the premium and monitor whether the deficiencies for which the premium has been increased are eliminated;
(i) organise training of trade union assets, labour security inspectors and assist in the education of economic managers;
j) check how the district trade unions assist the regional national committees in the supervision of the state of safety and health at work of single agricultural cooperatives;
(k) monitor the performance by the Regional National Committees of their tasks under the regulations applicable to economic authorities to ensure safety and health at work in subordinate enterprises, establishments and establishments and discuss with the Regional National Committees the state of safety and health at work in undertakings managed by national committees; propose the necessary measures to improve working conditions and the environment and to reduce accidents at work and occupational diseases;
(l) cooperate in matters of safety and health at work with the Regional National Committees, regional economic authorities and regional authorities of social organisations, state-of-the-art supervisory authorities, public security authorities, prosecutors, courts and fire protection authorities, the Czechoslovak Red Cross and State Insurance, and lead to such cooperation by the Regional Trade Union Committees;
(m) express their views on projects and investment tasks approved by the Regional National Committees and participate in the granting of authorisations to put them into test or permanent operation and use and send their representatives to the prototype procedure.
(2) The supervision of safety and health at work carried out by regional trade unions also applies to production cooperatives to the extent set out in Section 11. Regional trade unions discuss regularly with the regional association of production cooperatives the state and development of labour accidents in production cooperatives and, on the basis of their knowledge and knowledge obtained by the regional trade unions, recommend appropriate measures to address deficiencies. Regional trade unions also assist in the exercise of supervision in single agricultural cooperatives.
(3) The regional labour safety inspectors are the executive bodies of the regional trade unions in charge of occupational safety and health. Regional Labour Safety Inspectors are workers of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement; they shall follow the instructions of the Regional Trade Council in their activities and shall be responsible for their activities. They are established by the Regional Trade Union Council in accordance with the resolution of the Central Council of Trade Unions.
(4) Regional Labour Safety Inspectors are responsible in particular for:
(a) carry out, according to the decisions of the Regional Trade Union Councils, comprehensive checks on how the safety and health tasks at work at the plant are carried out and on the basis of the results of those checks, to submit proposals to the Regional Trade Union Council to improve the current situation;
(b) in accordance with the guidelines and resolutions of the Regional Trade Union Council, assist the Regional Trade Unions and the Regional Labour Safety Inspectors in generalising good experience, in particular from working with the trade union asset and assist in their application in practice;
(c) provide technical assistance to and assist the regional trade union committees in managing trade union assets;
(d) cooperate with public security authorities in the examination of deficiencies in work accidents in transport and in the activity of civil transport inspectors.
Supervision of safety and health at work in production cooperatives
(1) The supervision of safety and health at work at the premises of production cooperatives is carried out by the district trade union councils which, in their activities, rely on the labour safety and health committees and cooperative labour safety inspectors elected from among the members of cooperatives.
(2) The regional trade unions are responsible for the following supervision:
(a) discuss identified deficiencies in safety and health at work with the board of production cooperatives and propose appropriate measures to improve the working environment and reduce accidents at work;
(b) to check whether the Board of Directors, in line with the performance of production tasks, creates conditions for continuous improvement of the working environment, whether it carries out analyses of the causes of accidents at work, takes action to eliminate them, and whether it is discussing in a timely manner the proposals and initiatives to improve working conditions submitted by the workers and the Commission for Safety and Health at Work;
(c) to provide universal assistance to the Commission for the care of safety and health at work in production cooperatives in the provision of their tasks;
(d) propose, when identifying deficiencies which could lead to damage to the health of the employees of the cooperative and, where appropriate, to the regional association of production cooperatives, measures to remedy defects in the establishments where they have been identified;
(e) issue binding instructions to the Board of Cooperatives if the measures proposed to remedy the deficiencies have not been implemented within the prescribed time limit or where necessary, if the health of the workers is at risk and at the same time inform the competent cooperative authority thereof;
(f) carry out, in cooperation with the regional association of production cooperatives, the exchange of experience of the safety and health-care committees of production cooperatives in order to increase the level of safety and health at work.
(3) In the exercise of that supervision, the Regional Trade Unions shall have the powers referred to in Article 9 (2) (g), (h), (ch), (j) and (k) and (5).
(4) In agreement with the Central Board of Trade Unions, the Central Association of Production Cooperatives will issue detailed directives on the choice and competence of the bodies elected in production cooperatives to ensure safety and health at work.
Assistance in the exercise of safety and health oversight at work in single agricultural cooperatives
(1) The Regional Trade Union Councils shall draw up a plan with the District National Committees to assist the ROH authorities in the performance of safety and health surveillance at work in uniform agricultural cooperatives. In providing assistance to district national committees, in particular:
(a) manage the activities of regional trade unions and competition committees to assist in the provision of safety and health tasks at work in single agricultural cooperatives;
(b) ensure that, as part of their patronage activities, the racing committees effectively assist the single agricultural cooperatives in the provision of tasks in the safety and health at work and in their expertise and experience, contribute to the elimination of safety-related technical deficiencies in machinery and production facilities, to improving the working environment and to increasing the culture of work in cooperatives;
(c) lead the racing committees of machinery and tractor stations to organised assistance to the single agricultural cooperatives in the implementation of the technical advisory service and regular inspection of the machinery and mechanical park.
(2) They help the national committees to examine the health and safety situation at work, to educate workers and to train responsible staff responsible for organising and managing work and to cooperate in drawing up plans to promote health and safety at work in single agricultural cooperatives.
(3) Where the ROH body responsible for the district trade union has carried out an inspection at the establishment of the single agricultural cooperative, it shall discuss the results of the inspection with the board of directors or with the chairman of the single agricultural cooperative or, where appropriate, with another cooperative body responsible for safety and health at work. If there is no agreement in this negotiation to remedy the deficiencies identified or the period within which they are to be committed, the ROH authority shall order the immediate action to be taken.
(4) The ROH authority which has ordered the implementation of the urgent measures referred to in paragraph 3 or has agreed with the cooperative body the measures needed to remedy the deficiencies identified shall notify the ordered or agreed measures to the local national committee without delay for inspection. The notification shall include other proposals for measures falling within the competence of the local national committee to improve the status of workers' care. They shall also inform the Regional National Committee of such measures.
(5) In order to assist the Regional National Committee in the exercise of the supervision of safety and health at work in single agricultural cooperatives, the Regional Trade Council may entrust members of its body who, on completion of the task identified, will consult the Safety and Health Affairs Committee on the work of single agricultural cooperatives, and, where appropriate, the Board of Directors of single agricultural cooperatives and, if material defects arise, draw up a proposal for the adoption of binding guidelines for single agricultural cooperatives and submit it through the Regional Trade Council to the Regional Committee.
Volume organs ROH
Tasks of the Regional Trade Union Committees
The Regional Trade Union Committees shall follow the guidelines of the Regional Trade Unions when carrying out safety and health surveillance at work. In particular, they shall:
(a) discuss, in their meetings, issues of safety and health at work, in particular analyses of the state and development of accidents at work and the causes of accidents at work and occupational diseases, and, according to the results, establish measures to eliminate them;
(b) to check how the management of the establishments and bodies of the basic organisations of ROH perform their tasks in safety and health at work and to report their findings and proposals to the relevant regional trade union committees and regional trade unions;
(c) assist the bodies of the basic organisations of the ROH in carrying out tasks of safety and health surveillance at work, in particular in the preparation and drawing up of draft plant plans and in the drawing up of collective agreements and conventions;
(d) propose to the county trade union councils the prescription of a premium for insurance premiums in establishments whose equipment does not comply with the rules on safety and health at work;
(e) to take care of the organisation of trade union training in establishments and to exchange experience on safety and health matters at work;
(f) participate in the basic organisations of the ROH and in the regional trade unions to discuss the causes of fatal, severe and mass accidents;
(g) to lead the racing committees to assist the single agricultural cooperatives with which they conclude patronage contracts in addressing issues of safe and healthy work;
(h) cooperate with the relevant departments of the national committees and ensure that, at the same time as carrying out manufacturing tasks, they monitor the level of care for safety and health at work in establishments managed by national committees.
Tasks of regional trade union committees
The Regional Trade Union Committees (hereinafter referred to as the "Regional Committees') shall follow the guidelines and resolutions of the Regional Trade Union Councils and the higher trade union bodies in the exercise of their supervision of safety and health at work; In particular, they shall:
(a) discuss, in their meetings, issues of safety and health at work, the state of the work environment, the activities of economic and trade union bodies in this field of workers care, in particular analyses of the state and development of accidents at work in the region, and, according to the results, establish measures to remedy the situation;
(b) organise a safety and health check at work at the premises and, according to the results of those checks, take measures to improve the current situation;
(c) to assist the trade union councils and the basic organisations of ROH in the performance of their tasks in the supervision of safety and health at work, to generalise experience, in particular from working with the trade union asset, and to assist in their application in practice;
(d) participate in meetings with their representatives in production units, implement their comments and proposals on the plan of measures to improve safety and health at work;
(e) cooperate with the relevant departments of the Regional National Committees and ensure that, at the same time as the provision of manufacturing tasks, they monitor the level of care for safety and health at work in establishments managed by national committees.
Tasks of the Central Trade Union Committees
(1) The central trade union committees in the relevant field of the national economy ensure improvement of working conditions, carry out thorough analysis of accidents at work, collect knowledge and use it to solve the most important problems of the sector and call on the relevant economic authorities to remedy deficiencies; the knowledge obtained and the measures provided for shall generalise and ensure that they are implemented; carry out in particular the following tasks:
(a) on the basis of their own knowledge and reports submitted by ministries and regional committees, regularly discuss the situation in the field of safety and health at work as an integral part of the analysis of the implementation of the plan, carry out an analysis of the causes of accidents, including fatal and mass accidents, as well as of the causes of injuries to minors, apprentices and women; on the basis of these analyses, they impose on the Regional Committees the most serious problems of the sector and assist them in carrying out these tasks,
(b) develop and ensure compliance with the resolutions of the Central Council of Trade Unions and report to the Central Council of Trade Unions on their implementation, on the state and development of accidents at work;
(c) regularly discuss the situation in the field of safety and health at work, and with the relevant ministries and other central authorities, and the authorities participate in the planning of equipment intended for safety and hygiene facilities, participate in the approval of projects of new plants and integrated parts, and in their pilot or permanent operation in centralised investment construction;
(d) participate in meetings with their representatives in ministries and other central offices and bodies on safety and health at work and make comments and suggestions on measures to increase such care, in particular in the development plans of the sector concerned;
(e) ensure that ministerial research institutes and development centres include and deal with tasks in the field of safety and health at work in their thematic plans;
(f) ensure that specific measures to improve occupational safety and health care are included in the conventions negotiated with the relevant ministries and other central authorities;
(g) monitor the effectiveness of means of promotion in the field of safety and health at work and monitor whether the economic authorities equip the plants with appropriate promotional material and encourage the economic authorities to issue them;
(h) recommend to the competent ministries and other central authorities and authorities the issue and modification of regulations and standards, where necessary for safety and health at work, and approve their issue in agreement with the competent ministerial or other central authority, as appropriate;
(ch) check and ensure that the ministries and other managing economic authorities carry out their tasks in a responsible manner in the field of occupational safety and propose, in serious cases, that physical, disciplinary or disciplinary measures be applied against their workers who grossly neglect their responsibilities in safety and health at work,
(i) express their views on the directives and lists for the provision of personal protective equipment for workers, concentrate knowledge of their suitability and effectiveness and discuss shortcomings in their production processes;
(j) require that the competent ministries and other central authorities and authorities, when importing machinery and equipment from abroad, ensure that these machines and equipment comply with the applicable Czechoslovak standards on safety and health at work;
(k) agree to the night work of women under the applicable rules and check compliance with the conditions under which the night work of women has been authorised; If the management of the plant has not fulfilled these conditions, they may prohibit the night work of women.
(2) The central labour security inspectors are the executive bodies of the Central Trade Union Committees in the supervision of safety and health at work. Central Union Labour Safety Inspectors are workers of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement. In their activities they shall follow the instructions of the Central Committee of the Trade Union with which they are designated, report regularly to and are responsible for their activities. Central Union labour security inspectors shall be appointed by the Central Trade Union Committees in accordance with the resolutions of the Central Council of Trade Unions.
(3) The scope of the Central Union Labour Safety Inspectors shall apply in the relevant sector throughout the country. They shall be obliged to carry out the tasks set out in paragraph 1 and to assist the lower trade unions, in particular in the education and instruction of officials and activists on the field of safety and health at work.
(4) The Central Labour Inspectors are responsible in particular for:
(a) cooperate with the ministries and other central authorities and bodies in matters of safety and health at work, in particular when issuing new regulations on safety and health at work and state technical standards, when discussing the issues of typing and standardisation of safety equipment, and when discussing the sources and causes of fatal, severe and mass accidents at work;
(b) take part, as instructed by the Central Trade Union Committees, in the negotiation of procurement projects and the approval of new operational and work equipment and in the introduction of new working and technological procedures of national importance;
(c) to concentrate and submit to the Central Committee of the Trade Union the requirements, proposals and suggestions for the preparation of regulations on safety and health at work.
Management of supervision by ROH authorities
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Central Council of Trade Unions No. 83 / 1961 Coll., on the tasks of the authorities of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and National Committees in the exercise of supervision and care of safety and health at work |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 15.08.1961 |
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| Effective from | 01.09.1961 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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