Decree No. 9 / 1960 Coll.
Ordinance on the tasks of cooperative bodies in the performance of occupational safety oversight
Valid
Effective from 09.02.1960
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DECLARATION
Central Association of Production Cooperatives
of 23 December 1959
on the tasks of cooperative bodies in the performance of occupational safety oversight
In order to define the tasks of the labour inspection bodies of the cooperative production industry in the exercise of occupational safety oversight, the Central Association of Production Cooperatives, in agreement with the Central Council of Trade Unions pursuant to Article 1 of Act No. 72 / 1959 Coll., on the supervision of safety at work in production cooperatives, provides:
Labour inspection bodies in production cooperatives
(1) The following cooperative bodies shall carry out inspections of labour at work in production cooperatives ("cooperative"):
(a) member meetings of cooperatives;
(b) regional associations of production cooperatives,
(c) Slovak Association of Production Cooperatives,
(d) Central Association of Production Cooperatives.
(2) The executive bodies of the cooperative bodies of the labour inspection referred to in paragraph 1 shall be the workshop inspectors, cooperative labour inspectors, regional labour inspectors and central labour inspectors.
(3) The function of workshop and cooperative labour inspectors is fair. Regional and central labour inspectors shall be employees of the relevant cooperative associations.
Tasks of labour inspection bodies
(1) In carrying out safety oversight at work, labour inspection authorities shall assist workers and the management of the cooperative in ensuring safe and healthy work and shall continuously monitor how the management of the cooperative creates conditions for safe and healthy work.
(2) Labour inspection authorities ensure that the management of the cooperative
(a) provide workers with the best possible protection against accidents and occupational diseases in accordance with the rules on safety and health at work and with new knowledge of science and technology;
(b) gradually replace the heavy, particularly dangerous or harmful work of machinery or other safer and healthier ways of working;
(c) nurture workers to comply with the rules on safety and health at work, in particular for the use of prescribed protective equipment and equipment, promote methods for the prevention of accidents and health at work in the cooperative and issue rules on safe and healthy work for individual workplaces;
(d) continue to improve the working environment.
(3) Labour inspection bodies lead workers to active participation 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.
(4) The inspection of work in the performance of occupational safety oversight shall examine the workplace, sanitary, social and secondary facilities of the cooperative and shall be entitled to give the management of the cooperative, in accordance with the rules on safety and health at work, binding instructions on the removal of defects which may cause or cause accidents at work or occupational disease.
Tasks of member meetings of cooperatives
(1) Supervision of occupational safety in cooperatives is primarily exercised by workers themselves. The membership meeting as the highest body of the cooperative in the period between general meetings and, where appropriate, the membership meeting of the establishment shall take decisions within the limits of the applicable rules and on matters of protection and safety at work.
(2) The members of the cooperative shall ensure that the management of the cooperative (elected bodies and managers) fulfils its obligations for the cooperative under the rules on safety and health at work, technical standards and new knowledge of science and technology, as well as the resolutions of the members of the meetings and the instructions of the supervisory authorities issued to ensure safe and healthy work.
(3) The Cooperative Membership regularly assesses the situation at all premises in the field of protection and safety of work and, to this end, shall discuss the reports of the Cooperative Labour Inspector, as well as the reports and instructions of the Senior Labour Inspection Authorities, and shall decide on measures to remedy the deficiencies identified and shall give binding guidance to the management of the Cooperative to remedy the deficiencies.
Tasks of cooperative associations in the exercise of occupational safety oversight
(1) Regional associations of production cooperatives in the exercise of occupational safety oversight shall in particular:
(a) discuss issues of safety and health at work in their institutions, in particular analyses of the state and development of accidents at work and the causes of severe, mass or fatal accidents at work, and establish measures to remedy them;
(b) check how cooperatives perform their tasks in the field of safety and health at work and their obligations under the rules on compensation for accidents at work and occupational diseases, manage and assist them in carrying out their tasks;
(c) assist cooperatives in drawing up annual resolutions of the member meetings, ensuring that they include specific commitments to improve safety and health at work and control the implementation of the commitments contained in those resolutions;
(d) provide for the organisation of training of officials and other cooperative staff in the field of safety and health at work;
(e) discuss and propose to the Central Association of Production Cooperatives to prescribe an insurance premium for sickness insurance in cooperatives whose establishment does not comply with the occupational safety rules;
(f) allow exemptions from the working time provisions and the way in which women and adolescents are employed by individual cooperatives, in terms of safe and healthy work, within the limits of legal regulations and in accordance with the conditions of employment;
(g) approve the establishment and withdrawal of security technicians in cooperatives within their jurisdiction;
(h) manage the activities of cooperative labour inspectors in their constituency and remove them from office in cases where they do not perform their duties properly.
(2) The central association of production cooperatives on the occupational safety oversight section shall, in particular, carry out the following tasks:
(a) assist regional associations of production cooperatives in the performance of their tasks, manage and control their activities in the field of safety and health at work;
(b) discuss in its meetings fundamental issues of safety and health at work, in particular analyses of the state and development of accidents at work and the causes of fatal accidents and measures to improve safety and health at work;
(c) ensure that safety oversight at work is carried out in accordance with the relevant regulations and uniform principles; to that end, it shall provide an interpretation of those provisions, implementing directives and guidelines,
(d) decide, in accordance with the rules on staff sickness insurance, to pay a premium on insurance sickness insurance if the cooperative's establishment does not comply with the occupational safety rules or health regulations.
(3) The tasks referred to in paragraph 2 are carried out in Slovakia by the Slovak Association of Production Cooperatives, as far as matters of national competence are concerned.
Labour and cooperative labour inspectors
(1) All cooperatives are elected at member meetings (general meetings)
(a) for the perimeter of the relevant establishment (workshop) one member of the workshop inspector;
(b) for the whole cooperative district, one member of the cooperative labour inspector.
(2) Workers who are responsible for safety and health at work or who have been designated by the management of the cooperative to carry out measures on the labour safety and safety sector (security technicians) cannot be elected as labour inspectors.
(3) The labour and cooperative labour inspectors are responsible for their duties for the members' meeting (general meeting) of the cooperative; the members' meeting (General Meeting of Members) shall be withdrawn from the post of Labour Inspectors who do not perform their duties properly.
(4) The Board of Cooperatives shall discuss with the relevant cooperative association the transfer of the labour inspector or the withdrawal of his membership of the cooperative.
(1) The task of workshop and cooperative labour inspectors is to help increase the active participation of workers in the care of their life and health and to ensure that the management of the cooperative creates conditions of safe and healthy work, in particular that:
(a) care for the safety and health of workers in the personal and factual aspects, in particular permanent supervision at work and regular inspections of workplaces;
(b) planning, financial security, technical documentation, establishment, provision, maintenance and improvement of technical, hygienic, fire-fighting and social facilities, use and use of funds intended for occupational safety and health,
(c) comply with the resolutions of the member meetings at the labour protection and safety sector;
(d) assign workers, in particular newly recruited to work corresponding to their qualifications, physical and sensory abilities and medical condition, and only after their previous instruction or training and training, carry out the typing of workplaces according to their complexity and include persons with altered working capacity or persons with reduced sensory capacity in such places where they can work without harm to their safety and health;
(e) provide medical and other health investigations of workers and their regular repetition, particularly entry checks of newly recruited workers, periodic examinations of young workers, at risk workplaces, working women and kitchen and food workers;
(f) take measures to protect against accidents and occupational diseases in accordance with practical experience and current scientific and technical knowledge, in particular in the introduction of new technological and working practices as well as performance standards, replacing, where appropriate, obsolete technological practices by new ones;
(g) educate and train workers in their work education on the principles of safe and healthy work, in particular youth workers, not yet worked or transferred to other work, and managers responsible for occupational safety and health, promote methods of prevention of accidents and health at work, and keep records of training carried out, including the names of training participants and lists of regulations with which they have been informed;
(h) assign protective clothing, protective clothing, protective footwear and other protective equipment to workers under the applicable Directives, keep them in the usable condition for their load (cleaning and repair), ensure that the protective equipment is used for the intended purposes and provides the workers with the required washing and cleaning products;
(i) comply with the provisions on working time, work breaks and the way in which women, young people and persons with altered working capacity are employed;
(j) carry out on a timely basis, or ensure that the prescribed inspections and tests are carried out on technical equipment (steam boilers, pressure vessels, acetylene developers, lifts, binders, centrifuges, electrical equipment, gas installations, etc.), tests on the working environment and raw materials, analysis of the working air and control static calculations of construction structures, equipment and machinery are carried out,
(k) do not permit the implementation of work which is contrary to the principles of safe and healthy work and ensures that the necessary emergency work, which is accompanied by the risk of accidents (e.g. difficult repair and maintenance work), is carried out under constant professional supervision and always using the necessary safety equipment and equipment;
(l) do not allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages at workplaces;
(m) investigate impartially accidents at work, keep an accident record and registration in accordance with the relevant rules, report in due time, carry out regular accident tests, discuss accidents at work and their causes and take corrective action;
(n) draw up, in due time, comprehensive long-term and short-term plans to heal the working environment and ensure other health measures within the cooperative and in sanitary, social and secondary facilities for workers.
(2) Workshop and cooperative inspectors have the right to:
(a) to supervise the working environment and the state of the technical and protective equipment as well as the working and protective equipment from the point of view of safety, fire and health;
(b) to check the state of health of social facilities and their use for the intended purpose, the state of the sanitary rooms for women, as well as the state of health of all operating rooms;
(c) identify and propose appropriate workplaces for the employment of persons with altered working capacity and supervise their proper occupation;
(d) ensure that the cleaning of all workplaces is carried out in a timely manner and require that accumulated finished products and waste from production be removed from the operating rooms;
(e) to check compliance with regulations and measures in the safety and hygiene of work and in fire protection.
(3) The deficiencies identified are highlighted by the labour and cooperative labour inspectors of the management of the cooperative (establishment) and, where appropriate, by the membership meeting (general meeting) and the review committee of the cooperative and, in serious cases, by the regional labour inspector.
If the safety and health of cooperative workers are so immediately threatened that it is not possible to wait for them to take the necessary measures to lead the cooperative (establishment) according to the report of the workshop or cooperative labour inspector, the workshop or cooperative labour inspector is entitled to take these measures himself (disabling the machine, stopping work in rooms that threaten the safety of work, etc.). The workshop inspector shall report immediately to the head of the workplace and to the cooperative inspector, to the head of production, to the security technician and to the board of the cooperative. The work may be resumed only with the agreement of the cooperative labour inspector or the body which has decided on the appeal under the provisions of Paragraph 15.
In carrying out his duties, the cooperative inspector shall in particular:
(a) manage and guide the work of workshop labour inspectors in a technical and methodological way;
(b) ensure that the cooperative keeps an accident record in accordance with the relevant rules, reports in due time and that all accidents and their causes are discussed by the competent authorities of the cooperative;
(c) it shall discuss matters of a fundamental nature in the Board of Cooperatives, examine the measures of the labour inspectors of the workshop (Section 15) and participate in the meetings of the head of the cooperative on the planning of technical, sanitary and social facilities.
Regional Labour Inspectors
The Regional Labour Inspectors set up, withdrawn and their scope is determined by the Central (Slovak) Association of Production Cooperatives.
The task of regional labour inspectors in the designated area of responsibility shall be in particular:
(a) manage and guide, on a technical and methodological basis, the activities of cooperative labour inspectors and assist them in the performance of their tasks;
(b) to assist cooperatives
(aa) planning and building of technical, fire-fighting, sanitary and social facilities in cooperatives;
(bb) in the gradual replacement of heavy, particularly dangerous or harmful physical work by machines or other, safer and healthier ways of working;
(cc) in the education and training of workers for a safe and healthy way of working and helping to improve their performance;
(c) monitor the production and operation of new machinery and machinery at work and the use of working procedures, detect their defects and report on the knowledge obtained to the relevant cooperative association;
(d) to examine continuously all workplaces and secondary facilities (establishments, workshops, warehouses, habitats, transport facilities and means, sanitary and social facilities, ancillary facilities, etc.); ensuring that the operation of the cooperative is not hindered,
(e) to cooperate with the management of cooperatives in the preparation of projects and in the construction of new and rebuilding existing establishments and facilities and with the authorities of national committees in the authorisation and approval of operations therein;
(f) participate in and discuss measures to prevent the investigation of fatal, severe, mass or repeated accidents and other serious accidents.
(1) Regional labour inspectors shall have the right to:
(a) to enter into public health, social and secondary facilities for cooperative workers and to request from cooperative managers and from workers the explanations and documents they need to carry out their duties;
(b) require the management of the cooperative to remedy the deficiencies detected within a reasonable time; where there is a risk of delay, they may prohibit the use of defective machinery and operating equipment or operating procedures, or, where appropriate, prohibit further work at the hazardous workplace until the fault has been remedied; they shall immediately inform the Board of Directors of such measures and the authority with which they are established;
(c) impose fines on persons who have infringed labour safety regulations in block proceedings in accordance with the applicable rules of administrative criminal law up to 100 Ccs, unless the cooperative is subject to the highest supervision of the State Mining Administration.
(2) Regional labour inspectors may, in urgent cases, entrust the expert of the cooperative production organisation with representation when authorising and approving new establishments and machinery.
Central Labour Inspectors
The Central Labour Inspector establishes and discloses the Central Association of Production Cooperatives, in Slovakia Slovak Association of Production Cooperatives.
The tasks of the Central Labour Inspector shall be in particular:
(a) to guide and assist the work of the Regional Labour Inspectors;
(b) cooperate with the competent authorities in planning and building cooperative safety technical, fire-fighting, sanitary and social facilities in terms of safety of work, in dealing with typing, standardisation, etc.,
(c) ensure safety and health at work already in preparation for the production of new operational and work equipment;
(d) to make written decisions for the purposes of prescribing the premium on insurance under the rules on the organisation and conduct of occupational sickness insurance that cooperative establishments do not comply with the rules on safety and health at work and to submit proposals to the Central Association of Production Cooperatives for the prescription of the premium on insurance sickness insurance in cooperatives where significant deficiencies in the care of safety and health at work have been identified.
The central labour inspector shall have the same rights in the performance of his duties as those applicable to regional labour inspectors.
Review of measures taken by labour inspection authorities
(1) The management of the cooperative and the persons concerned by the measures taken by the labour inspection authorities may request a review within 15 days of its issue.
(2) Measures
(a) the labour inspector shall be examined by the cooperative labour inspector,
(b) the cooperative labour inspector reviews the regional cooperative association;
(c) the Regional Association of Production Cooperatives reviews the Central (Slovak) Association of Production Cooperatives,
(d) the regional and central labour inspector shall be examined by the cooperative association which established it.
(3) Where there is a review of the measures taken by the labour inspection authorities concerning equipment subject to technical supervision, they shall be reviewed by the competent authority in agreement with the competent authority of technical supervision.
(4) An application for review shall have suspensory effect at the time of submission unless it has been ruled out by the inspection body of the work which has taken the measures for important reasons, in particular the risk of delay. The suspensive effect must be excluded in the cases referred to in Section 7, Section 11 (1) (b). The authority responsible for the review must discuss the matter urgently and may confirm, amend or repeal the contested measure. Its decision shall be final except for the measure referred to in paragraph 2 (a).
(5) General rules on the imposition of fines apply. The provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this paragraph shall not apply here.
Cooperation of labour inspection bodies with public administrations, economic and social organisations
(1) In carrying out their tasks, the labour inspection authorities shall, in particular, cooperate closely with the national committees and their executive bodies, with the national health authorities, with the social security authorities, with the State Mining Authorities, with the professional technical supervision authorities, with the fire protection authorities, with the public security authorities, with the prosecutors and courts and authorities of the State Insurance Corporation.
(2) Where the labour inspection authorities detect defects in the performance of their duties at such workplaces, facilities or activities which fall within the competence of the authorities referred to in the preceding paragraphs, they shall be brought to the attention of the competent authority and, in urgent cases, the management of the cooperative. The modalities and details of cooperation shall be laid down in specific provisions.
General provisions
(1) Labour inspectors are required to follow the rules on maintaining national, economic and professional secrecy on matters which they have learned in the performance of their duties and remain silent about, even after their duties have ceased.
(2) Regional and central labour inspectors are to be shown in their activities by a special licence issued by the Central (Slovak) Association of Production Cooperatives.
(3) A cooperative (workshop) labour inspector who has lost earnings for the necessary performance of his duties at work is entitled to compensation under the applicable rules on the performance of duties and to compensation for the performance of duties in production cooperatives.
(4) The labour inspection authorities shall supervise safety at work in production cooperatives and against employees - non-members of the cooperative.
(5) Where certain regulations on occupational safety determine the scope of the labour inspection bodies of ROH, the labour inspection authorities shall exercise that competence in production cooperatives under this decree.
Final provision
This decree shall take effect from the date of its publication.
First Vice-President of the Board:
Caprine v. r.
Chairman of the Board of Directors:
Spruce v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Central Association of Production Cooperatives No. 9 / 1960 Coll., on the tasks of the Cooperative Authorities in the performance of occupational safety oversight |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 09.02.1960 |
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| Effective from | 09.02.1960 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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