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Third meeting: Creating an Applicable Curriculum on Occupational Safety and Health

Gain insights into Slovenian legislation and practice of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). Understand key Acts, Regulations, and employer/employee obligations for a safer work environment.

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Third meeting: Creating an Applicable Curriculum on Occupational Safety and Health

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  1. Third meeting: CreatinganApplicableCurriculum on OccupationalSafetyandHealth Legislation and practice of OHS in Slovenia prof. dr. Karmen Erjavec 13 December 2018

  2. The Health and Safety at Work Act In Slovenia, OHS is covered by “The Health and Safety at Work Act” and the Rules adopted on its basis. • The Act transposes into Slovenian law the framework EuropeanCouncil Directive of 1989 and • Directive from2006 of the European parliament and of the EuropeanCouncil of 2006 on services in the internal market.

  3. The Health and Safety at Work Act • The Act came into force in 2011. • The primary purpose of the new Act is to enact simpler and modern solutions in comparison to the previously valid Act. • The new Act eliminates the inconsistencies that have emerged in years of enforcement of the previous Act.

  4. The Health and Safety at Work Act • Among the most important articles of the act are the areas of health promotion at the workplace, the risk of third-party violence, maltreatment, harassment, psychosocial risk and prior care.

  5. The Health and Safety at Work Act • According to the legislation, each employer must ensure health and safety at work through providing measures that implement the health and safety of workers, including: • prevention, elimination and control of risks at work, • training and information for employees, • appropriate organisation of work processes, • providing needed material resources.

  6. Additional Acts There are severaladditionalactswhichalsocoversoccupationalhealthandsafety: • Employment Relationship Act • Inspection Act

  7. Additional Acts • Fire Protection Act • Protection Against Natural and Other Disasters Act

  8. Additional Acts • Ionising Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act • Explosive Substances and Pyrotechnic Products Act • Restriction on the Use of Tobacco and Related Products Act

  9. Rules • There are manyruleswhichsupport the implementation of legislation. Applications in the field of OSH: • Rules on notifications in the field of safety and health at workand • Mandatory instruction on the implementation of Article 2 of the Rules on notifications in the field of safety and health at work. There are rules in thefiledof OHS at workplaces, vulnerable employee groups, dangerous substances, security signs, machines, work equipment, professional services of the OHS, vocational training and training in the field of OSH, first aid, physical stresses, preventive medical examinations, occupational diseases, OHS on ships, picture screen, electricity, OHS in the forest, elevatorsandmotorvehicles

  10. Regulations There are manyregulations, such as • Regulation on the protection of workers from the risks of exposure to artificial optical radiation, • Regulation on the protection of workers from the risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields, • Non-binding guide to good practices for the implementation of Directive 2013/35/EU, • Decree on the assurance of safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites.

  11. Employer/employee • Among the main tasks of employers, they are obligated to assess the risks, to whom workers are or will be exposed. • After carrying out a risk assessment for safety and health at work they are obliged to draw up and accept a security statement with risk assessment.

  12. Employer/employee • They are obliged to consider also changing circumstances in their working environmentand consequently to implement preventive measures that will improve the situation and raise the level occupationalsafety and health.

  13. Employer/employee It is very important to emphasize that the compliance with measures in the field of safety at work is a reciprocal process. Employers, as well as employees, are obliged to implement them. In one of the cases from the Slovenianjudicial practice, disregard of measures in the field occupationalsafety can also lead to shared responsibility.

  14. Employer/employee • Among the commitments that must be followed by employees in the work process, it is their obligation to safety devices and personal protective equipment in accordance with their own purpose and in accordance with the instructions of the employer. • They need to treat them with caution and care that they are in perfect condition.

  15. CONCLUSIONS • To sum up, in occupationalsafetyandhealth, Slovenianlegislationandinfrastructure are appropriate.   • Slovenianemployersunderstand it differently, considerand be awareoftheirresponsibilities.

  16. CONCLUSIONS • Last year, more than 9000 accidents at workwerereportedbyemployers to the labor inspectorate, ofwhom 458 wereheavierand 17 werethosewhoendedwithdeath. • Afterseveralyearsofdecline in 2017, thenumberofallreportedincidentsincreasedsignificantly. • The causes can be attributed partly to the end of the financial crisis and to increased production, andpartly inconsistent implementation of regulations.

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