Labor safety at the enterprise: who and what should

Labor protection at the enterprise is a set of measures designed to ensure the safety of the health and life of workers involved in

labor process. And also all those who may be somehow connected with the production process and its results. This list includes sanitary and hygienic measures, organizational, technical, socio-economic, medical and rehabilitation, and others. Labor protection at the enterprise is the responsibility of the head, as well as specially authorized persons responsible for certain aspects of this process: fire safety inspectors, state supervision, labor protection service structure, trade unions and others.

Duties of the labor protection service

• Organization of providing employees with labor code requirements
  
  regarding health and life.
• Carrying out preventive work to prevent injuries at work, occupational diseases.
• Work aimed at optimizing working conditions.
• Advising employees on safety. Conducting regular briefings.
• Conducting inspections and surveys regarding labor safety at the enterprise.
• Development and implementation of programs to improve working conditions and its safety.
• Participation in the development and signing of collective agreements relating to the improvement of working conditions and its safety.
• Consideration of complaints and letters of employees related to safety and working conditions.
• Providing control over the provision of necessary assistance and conducting an internal investigation if an industrial injury does occur.

The legislative framework

Persons whose competence includes labor protection at the enterprise are obliged to be guided by the legislative base and regulatory acts of the Russian Federation related to the facility. As well as local legal regulations like collective bargaining agreements. The main regulatory source, according to which labor protection at an enterprise of any nature should be organized, is the law of the Russian Federation No. 181-FZ of July 17, 1999.

Features of legislative requirements for various enterprises

An important point in this area of industrial relations are

specific differences in legislation for institutions of a different nature. So, labor protection at a public catering enterprise implies special requirements for compliance with state sanitary rules regarding the arrangement and maintenance of premises, their construction features, microclimate, air temperature, production process, room cleaning, disinfection and many other subtleties. The head, whose responsibility includes occupational safety at a communications enterprise, is required to ensure a safe level of noise from machines in the room, vibrations, lighting, and necessary openings at the facility (mail, telegraph) for both employees and customers. Regulations also regulate the intricacies of the safe extraction of correspondence from mailboxes to the moral and psychological state of postal employees.