Security Labour law
Republic Dominican SECRETARY OF STATUS DE WORK
Address General Industrial Hygiene and Safety
HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS IN THE WORK
Decree No. 522-06, October 17, 2006
CONSIDERING: That the Article 8 of the Constitution of Republic Dominican Republic establishes that: "It is recognized as a purpose principal of the State the effective protection of the person human and the maintenance of the means that allow them to progressively improve within a order de freedom individually and Justice social, compatible with the order public, general well-being and the derechos of all»;
CONSIDERING: That in accordance with the provisions of Article 420 of the Code de Work of the Dominican Republic, the Secretariat of State de Work is the organ representative of the The ability to Executive, in terms of Work; as well as the highest authority administrative in everything related to relations between employers and workers, having as part of its powers the benefit of industrial hygiene and safety services»;
CONSIDERING: That as seen here as indicated by Article 186 of the Act 87-01, which creates the System Dominican of Social security; «the Secretariat of State de Work will take care of define a political national de prevention of Accidents of Work and occupational diseases, taking into consideration the safety of the employee, the economic possibilities of companies and the predominant educational and cultural factors, with companies and employers in the legal obligation to put in Areas the basic measures of prevention established by the Secretariat of State de Work";
CONSIDERING: That the Decree 807, of December 30, 1966, establishes the Regulation on Industrial Hygiene and Safety;
CONSIDERING: That due to the constant cultural, social, economic and technological, the State has interest to adapt the regulations relating to Occupational Health and Safety, with the object to achieve an effective prevention and protection, permanently sustainable, in benefit of the workers, which is why it is necessary
update the provisions contained in the Regulation on Industrial Hygiene and Safety;
VISTA: The Constitution of Republic Dominican, proclaimed on November 6, 1844, modified by thirty-eighth (38th) occasion July 25, 2002;
VISTA: The Act Organic No. 4378, of when and where February 18, 1956, which establishes the Act Organic of Secretariats of State;
VISTA: The Act No. 1312, of when and where June 30, 1930, which creates the Secretariat of State de Work;
VISTA: The Act No. 116, of when and where January 20, 1980, which creates the Institute Technical Training Professional (INFOTEP);
VISTA: The Act No. 16-92, of when and where May 29, 1992, which establishes the Code de Work of Republic Dominican;
VISTA: The Act 87-01, of when and where May 9, 2001, which creates the System Dominican of Social security;
VISA: The German 119 of the Organisation of the Work (ILO) on the Guarding of Machinery, approved by the Congress dome National, through Litigation, Arbitration 565, promulgated on December 31, 1964, Official Gazette Official number 8928, of when and where February 27, 1965;
VISA: The German 167 of the Organisation International of the Work (ILO) on Safety and Health in Construction, approved by the Congress dome National, through Litigation, Arbitration 31-97, promulgated on February 7, 1997, Official Gazette Official number 9947, of when and where February 15, 1997;
VISA: The Decree No. 1489, of when and where February 11, 1956 on the functions to cargo of the Secretariats of State;
VISA: The Decree No. 807, of when and where December 30, 1966, which establishes the Regulation on Industrial Hygiene and Safety;
VISA: The Decree No. 258-93, of when and where October 2, 1993, which establishes the Regulation for the Application of the Code de Work;
VISA: The Decree No. 774-01, of when and where July 20, 2001, which establishes the Organic and Functional Regulations of the Secretariat of State de Work;
VISA: Regulation No. 1894, of when and where August 11, 1980, Application of the Act 116-80;
VISA: The Decree No. 548-03, of when and where June 6, 2003, establishing the Regulation on the Insurance Occupational Risks;
VISA: The Decree No. 989-03, of when and where October 9, 2003, which creates the Council National Occupational Health and Safety (CONSSO);
And in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Article 55 of the Constitution of the Republic, I dictate the following:
HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS IN THE WORK CHAPTER I
Objective:
This Regulation will regulate the conditions under which productive activities must be carried out in the field national, with the purpose of prevent accidents and damage to health resulting from work, save relationship with the activity labor or occur during the work, minimizing the causes of risks inherent to the environment of the work.
Article 1. Scope of Application
1.1. This Regulation applies to all branches of work activities carried out within the scope of National, within the limits provided by the Principle III of the Code de Work of Republic Dominican.
Article 2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following is defined as:
2. 1 Accident de Work: It is an unwanted event, which cause damage to persons, damage to property your property and interruptions in the proceedings.
AGENDA preventive: It's all action necessary to eliminate or avoid work situations that involve a threat to the health of workers or third parties and which aims to promote an environment labor healthy and Safety.
Activity labor: It is one that covers all branches of productive and service activity in which there are workers and employers.
Alteration of health derived from work: They are diseases or injury suffered due to or occasion of the work made by account alien
Consultations: These are the guidelines or advice that are offered for the fulfillment of the rules relating to health and safety in the work; as well as best practices for preserving them.
Condition de work: Any characteristic thereof that may have a significant influence on the generación of risks to the safety and health of employee.
Dangerous Conditions: It is the exposure al risk.
Contamination Air pollution: This is the pollution that includes air contaminated by substances that, whatever their state physical, are harmful to health or involve any type the dangerous.
Employer: It is the person physical or moral to whom is it borrowed el the service, by virtue of a contract de work.
Disease occupational or Experience: It is contracted by a employee. As a result of the work executed by account alien, and which is caused by the factors and conditions prevailing in its craft u occupation.
Risk assessment: It is the qualitative and quantitative study of the risk factors present in the places of work.
Confined Space: Any area not designed for continuous human occupancy, with limited access and ventilation, and susceptible to flood hazards from water, gases, or gases. particular solids or containing a known potentially hazardous atmosphere; a material with potential entrapment hazard for the person that enters; an internal configuration, such that an entrant could become trapped or suffocate due to having internally converging walls or a floor that slopes downwards and ends in a smaller cross section; or that contains any other serious danger.
Instead of Work: It covers all the places where workers must stay or where they have to go for reason of its work and which are under the direct control or indirect of the employer.
Company: It is understood as such the economic unit of production or distribution of goods and services.
Machines: For the application of this Regulation, all machines powered by a motor shall be considered as such. force non-human, whether new or occasion.
Prevention: These are activities aimed at eliminating or controlling risks to avoid accidents and/or occupational or professional illnesses.
Provider Service Health and Safety: It is the person physical or legal, national or foreign, duly certified by the Ministry of State de Work, dedicated to training, carrying out risk assessments and offering advice in the field of health and safety labor.
Register National of Health and Safety Service Providers in the Work: Is the record that level national will be carried out by the Secretariat of State de Work of the Health and Safety Service Providers in the Work, certificates for the benefit of their services in the Republic Dominican.
Risk labor serious and imminent: It is all condition that is rationally predictable, that materializes in the immediate future and may represent a hurt serious for the health of workers.
Risk Labour law: Is a condition with sufficient potential to cause accidents and/or occupational or professional illnesses.
Health: In relationship with the work, not only the absence of conditions or diseases, but also the physical and mental elements that affect health and are directly related to safety and health in the work.
Employee: It's all person physics that lends a the service material or intellectual, by virtue of a contract de work.
Price Threshold Limit Values: (TLV) It is a value limit, recommended for approximately 600 chemical compounds, chemical substances, physical agents and biological indices of exposureThere are three different categories of concentrations in the air, expressed in parts per million or milligrams per million. metro cubic, namely:
a. TLV-CEILING: from the English Time Limited Value-Ceiling, is the concentration that should not be exceeded, not even for an instant.
b. TLV-STEL: from the English Time Limited Value-TLV-Short-Term Exposure Limit, is the concentration maxim, value Most that of TLV-TWA, which must not be exceeded at any time during a period of exposure up to 15 minutes.
c. TLV-TWA: Time Limited Value-Time Weighted Average, is the concentration for a given exposure. journey normal 8 hours to to date or 40 hours a week, in which workers can estar repeatedly exposed without presenting effects adverse.
Venting: It is to dilute or drag a substance (gas, vapor, particle, etc.) from a certain equipment or area, making it pass through the work a flow of steam, air, or water.
Via de Showroom: It is the by of entry of the contaminant to the bodyIt can be inhalatory, oral administration, dermal, parenteral or others.
CHAPTER II
SURVEILLANCE COMPLIANCE
Article 3. The Secretariat of State de Work is institution official empowered to monitor the fulfillment of this Regulation, by virtue of its powers as organ Manager define la political national de prevention of accidents of work and occupational diseases.
Paragraph. Compliant with the provisions of the organic and functional regulations of the Secretariat of State de Work, Address of Industrial Hygiene and Safety is the organ technician of the Secretariat of State de Work which has the purpose prevent and control the risks of accidents work and occupational diseases. Its main functions are:
a. Conduct risk assessments and measurements to find out the toxicity of substances, methods or equipment work used in production processes.
b. Research the causes and determining factors of accidents work, of occupational or professional diseases and the impact of factors risk on the health of workers, proposing appropriate preventive measures.
c. Promote and develop programs of research on methods and techniques of safety and health in the work.
d. Monitor the fulfillment of the health and safety regulations in the work.
e. Develop guides and instructions on occupational risks that serve as a guide. instrument to plan policies for prevention in the places of work.
f. Coordinate with the Address of Coordination of the System Inspection (DCSI), carrying out visits to companies, with the aim of verifying the fulfillment of the health and safety regulations in the work.
g. Advise companies that request it, in relationship to existing legislation relating to hygiene and safety in the workplace. work.
h. Promote and give monitoring companies, for the creation of Health and Safety Committees in the Work or for the appointment of a coordinator in those where the number of workers does not require the creation of a committee.
i. Collaborate with institutions that have an impact on companies or organizations in the definition and the establishment of standards that tend to ensure the safety and health of workers.
j. Promote, educate and train on prevention of occupational risks and their effects In the health.
k. The Address The General Office of Industrial Hygiene and Safety will certify companies that comply with the content of this Regulation, its annexes and complementary resolutions.
CHAPTER III
RIGHTS Y OBLIGATIONS OF WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS IN THE FIELD OF SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE WORK
Article 4. Rights from the workers.
4.1. Workers have right to effective protection in matters of safety and health in the work.
4.2 Workers have right to participate in the design, the adoption and the fulfillment of preventive actions. Said participación includes the consultation on risk assessment and the resulting planning
y Company of action preventive, as well as access to the documentation .
Paragraph I: The organ de participación of the workers, in the action de prevention, is the Health and Safety Committee in the Work of company concerned.
Paragraph II: The Safety and Health Committees in the Work will be governed by the criteria of Company and operating procedures established by resolution by the Secretary of State de Work.
4,3 El employee has right, after exhausting internal channels with the employer, of interrupting its activity labor when it involves a risk serious and imminent for his Life or your health. This situation will be communicated by the employee to the Secretariat of State de Work, with the aim of carrying out the relevant investigations, which will allow us to verify everything related to this interruption. labor of the employee.
Article 5. Obligations from the workers.
Shipping Costs damage by obligations provided in the Code de Work and applicable laws, will be considered as obligations of workers in the field of action preventive, the following:
Workers are required to comply with the guidelines of prevention established by the employer, without damage of the others obligations provided for by the legal provisions governing the matter.
It corresponds to each employee give fulfillment to the measures of prevention that in each /// be adopted, for their safety and health and that of other people who may be affected by their activity Experience, cause of their acts and omissions in accordance with their training and the employer's instructions.
The workers, according to their training and following the employer's instructions, they must particular:
a. Use appropriately, in accordance with their nature and the foreseeable risks, the machines, tools, dangerous substances, transport equipment or other means with which they carry out their activity.
b. Correctly use the means and protective equipment provided by the employer, in accordance with the instructions received from the employer and the use ordinary of the same.
c. Correctly use existing safety devices and keep them in good condition. state of operation.
d. Inform immediately to his/her immediate superior about any situation that he/she has reasonable cause to believe poses an imminent danger to his/her Life or health.
e. Contribute to the fulfillment by obligations established by the authority competent, in order to to guarantee safety and health in the work.
f. Cooperate with the employer so that he can to guarantee some conditions of work safe and do not pose risks to the safety and health of workers.
g. Ensure, within reasonable limits, their own safety and that of other persons whom they may affect. to affect their acts or omissions in the work.
h. Observe health and safety procedures in the work.
Article 6. Obligations of employers.
Obligations general employer
Employers have the legal obligation to protect workers from occupational hazards.
En fulfillment of the must of protection, the employer must to guarantee the safety and health of workers at their disposal the service, in all aspects related to the work, adopting for these purposes all necessary measures.
Shipping Costs damage of the responsibilities provided for in the Code de Work and applicable laws, the employer must comply with the Obligations established in the annexes of this Regulation, the complementary Resolutions and the regulations on prevention occupational hazards.
Employers must register data on accidents work and all cases of damages that occur during the work or in relationship with this.
6. 1 .4 Costs related to the adoption of measures aimed at to guarantee safety and health in the work should not fall on way some about the workers.
Article 7. Obligations of the employer in relation to the action preventive
The employer will apply the following measures: prevention:
7. 1 Prevent risks at their source.
Plan the prevention, in a coherent set that integrates the technique, the Company of the work, the conditions of work, social relations and the influence of environmental factors on the work.
Control risks that cannot be avoided from the point of view view technical.
Adapt the work to person, a particular in regards to the conception of the posts workAs well as the election of the equipment and methods of work and production, with the aim of mitigating the work monotonous and repetitive and reduce the effects negative effects on health.
Take in account technological evolution in relationship to prevention.
Replace the risky with what involves the less risk possible or none risk for employee.
Adopt measures that put collective protection before individually.
Give proper instructions to workers in relationship to prevention.
Provide, at no cost to the employee, protective equipment individually adequate.
Adopt the measures of prevention, appropriate to the characteristics of the different branches of economic activity and the different types of work.
Take the necessary measures, as regards the duration of the work already the periods of rest, so that they do not cause hurt to the safety and health of workers, as well as to take reasonable and feasible measures to eliminate any excessive physical or mental fatigue.
Implement the preventive measures established in this Regulation, when an incident has occurred hurt to the health of workers for which the employer will carry out a research in this regard, in order to detect the causes that originate saying hurt.
Provide for the availability of a the service de medicine at the workWithin the company or through agreements with a body outside.
The employer will guarantee to the workers at their the service, mass surveillance periodic of its; state health, depending on the risks inherent to the work. Such periodicity will never exceed one year and we will announce. Medical examinations and any activity of mass surveillance of health, in the place of work, must be carried out by doctors who have a specialty or master's degree in occupational health or under their supervision.
7.15. The employer has the must ethical and moralas well as a legal obligation legal, to take control measures against any risk which has been identified, regardless of whether or not it is contained in this Regulation.
Article 8. Obligations of the Employer with respect to Safety and Health Programs in the Work.
From the promulgation of this Regulation, all Employers will submit their respective Health and Safety programs in the months of July to September. work, as seen here as established in Chapter IV of this Regulation. These programs must be updated and submitted every three (3) years to the Secretariat of State de Work, which will be subject to the testing and approval of said institution, which is empowered to request any changes it deems appropriate.
Paragraph. The employer shall have a Plazo 3 months from the start of its activities, to send to the Secretariat of State de Work its Safety and Health program in the Work.
Shipping Costs damage of the provisions established in the article Previously, every time new products, machinery or methods of production are introduced, work, the employer must send to the Secretariat of State de Work the changes introduced in the health and safety program in the work and the corresponding request for risk assessment, with respect to the same. Likewise, the employer must report and train workers regarding the consequences of these new products, machinery or methods of work for their health and safety; likewise, preventive actions corresponding to such changes must be taken.
The actions in the matter preventive, which the employer must implement as a result of the evaluation, will have to be integrated into the set of activities of the company and at all hierarchical levels thereof and be modified when their inadequacy for the required protection purposes is deemed.
The employer will include in its safety and health program in the work, the specific risks existing at the site work for workers under 18 years of age edad and will monitor them, ensuring that their health is not affected.
Article 9. Obligations from the employer with relationship to the Formation and Information from the workers.
The employer must formulate by written la political health and safety in the work, which must be disseminated in the company, with the aim of making it known to all workers.
The employer must to guarantee that workers have knowledge of the information provided by manufacturers, importers and suppliers so that the use and handling of machinery, equipment, products, raw materials and tools work occurs without risks to the safety and health of workers.
En fulfillment of the must of protection, the employer must to guarantee that each employee receive insights y training about the risks existing in your position work and on the corrective measures that must be applied to eliminate or control them.
La training the workers should estar in accordance with the position of work and with general preventive measures.
The employer will train in the subject preventive to the members of the Health and Safety Committee in the Work, which operates in its company.
Employers must maintain records of safety and health training in the workplace. work received by each of its workers.
9.7. The employer must take measures to report to workers about the legislation national relating to the protection of machinery and must indicate to them, in an appropriate manner, the dangers involved in the use of machinery and the precautions that must be taken. adopt.
Article 10. Obligations of the employer with regard to the coordination of business activities
When in the same center work develop activities workers of two or more companies, these will be in the legal obligation to apply the regulations on prevention occupational risks. To this end, they will establish the necessary means of coordination, in terms of protection and prevention of occupational risks and the insights about them to their respective workers.
The employer owner o lessee instead of work will take the necessary measures so that other employers or contractors who carry out activities in their place of work work receive the insights and the appropriate instructions in relationship with the risks existing therein and with the protection measures and prevention corresponding; as well as, on the measures of emergency necessary for the transfer of their respective workers.
Article 11. Obligations from the employer in /// de risk serious and imminent
When workers are or can estar exposed to a risk serious and imminent, in occasion of its work, the employer will be obliged a:
Inform as soon as possible to all affected workers about the existence of saying risk and of the measures adopted or that, in their ///, must be adopted in the field of protection.
Adopt the measures and give the necessary instructions so that workers can interrupt their activity and, if necessary,
abandon immediately the place of workIn this case, workers cannot be required to resume their activity while the danger persists, except exception duly justified for safety reasons and restricted to the persons who will control this danger.
Adopt the necessary measures in order to to guarantee that only workers who have received insights, sufficient and adequate training and protection can access the areas of risk serious.
Article 12. Workers or their representatives may not suffer damage some derived from the adoption of the measures referred to in the preceding paragraphs, unless they have acted in accordance with bad faith or task negligence serious.
Article 13. The inspector of work, a /// of imminent danger to the safety and health of workers, may immediately order the relevant executive measures, including the suspension of the activity. The suspension of activities will be communicated on the same day. to dateIn the Address General of Work; which in turn will request the Address General Health and Safety in the Work, a technical evaluation of the health and safety conditions, so that, based on this, appropriate recommendations can be issued.
CHAPTER IV
SUPPLIER CERTIFICATION
Article 14. Certification of Health and Safety Service Providers at the workplace work.
14.1. Safety and Health programs in the work, will be carried out by health and safety service providers in the work, certified by the Secretariat of State de Work, according to proceedings de record y certification that is established by Litigation, Arbitration of the Secretary of State de Work.
CHAPTER V
Article 15. Obligations from manufacturers, importers and suppliers
15.1. Manufacturers, importers and suppliers of machinery, equipment, products and tools work are obliged to to guarantee that these do not constitute a source of danger for the employee, whenever they are
installed and used under the conditions, crafts and for the purposes recommended by them.
In a Plazo No. Most (6) months, from the start-up validity of this Regulation, manufacturers, importers, suppliers of chemical products and substances, for use in the work, are required to package and label them in such a way crafts that its conservation and manipulation is allowed, in safe conditions and its content is clearly identified and the risks to the safety and health of workers, that its storage or use implies, and in a sheet of insights safety material containing:
a) Identification of the product
b) Hazardous ingredients'
c) Physical data
d) Fire and explosion
e) Health hazard / entry routes
f) Reactivity data
g) Procedure en /// de escape or spill
h) Information on special handling
Manufacturers, importers and suppliers, mentioned in the two previous paragraphs, must supply by written la insights that indicates the crafts correct use by workers; as well as the intervention measure, in /// de emergency, the additional preventive measures that must be taken and the occupational risks that they entail, both their use normal, such as improper handling or use.
Manufacturers, importers and suppliers of elements for the protection of employees are obliged to: to guarantee their effectiveness, provided that they are installed and used in the conditions and in the crafts recommended by them. To such effect, must provide the insights certified indicating the type de risk to whom they are addressed, the level of protection against it and the crafts correct of your use and maintenance. The protective equipment supplied must estar certified by international organizations endorsed for such purposes or by a institution authorized by Dominican laws for such purposes.
Manufacturers, importers and suppliers must provide employers, and employers must collect from them, the following information: insights necessary for the use and handling of machinery, equipment, products, raw materials and tools work occur without risks to the safety and health of workers; as well as for employers
can comply with their obligations de insights with the workers. Instructions on the risks of these/these must be estar en Spanish accompanied by the symbols of prevention corresponding.
CHAPTER VI
INFRINGEMENTS AND SANCTIONS
Article 16. Violations and Sanctions
Violations of this Regulation and the Resolutions that complement it will be sanctioned. as seen here as provided for in the Book Eighth of the Code de Work.
CHAPTER VII GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 17. This Regulation repeals the Decree No. 807, of December 30, 1966 and any other provision contrary. The present Decree It will be supplemented by the Resolutions issued by the Secretary of State de Work, in accordance with the provisions of Article 420 of the Code de Work of Republic Dominican.
GIVEN in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, District National, capital of Republic Dominican, on the seventeenth (17) day of the month October 2006 (163); XNUMXrd of the Independence and 144 of the Restoration.
LEONEL FERNÁNDEZ
RESOLUTION No. 04/2007
"YEAR TIME BOOK AND READING”
THE SECRETARY OF STATUS DE WORK
VISTA: The Act number 16-92 of when and where May 29 year and we will announce 1992, which establishes the Code de Work of Republic Dominican;
VISTA: The Act 87-01 of when and where May 9 year and we will announce 2001, which creates the System Dominican of Social security;
VISA: The German 119 of the Organisation of the Work (ILO) on the Guarding of Machinery, approved by the Congress dome National through Litigation, Arbitration 565, promulgated on December 31, 1964, Official Gazette Official number 8928 of when and where February 27 year and we will announce 1965;
VISA: The German 167 of the Organisation of the Work (ILO) on Safety and Health in Construction, approved by the Congress dome National through Litigation, Arbitration 31-97, promulgated on February 7, 1997, Official Gazette Official number 9947 of when and where February 15 year and we will announce 1997;
VISA: The Decree number 1489 of when and where February 11, 1956 on the functions to cargo of the Secretariats of State;
VISA: The Decree number 807 of when and where December 30rd year and we will announce 1966, which establishes the Regulation on Industrial Hygiene and Safety;
VISA: The Decree number 258-93, of when and where October 2nd year and we will announce 1993, which establishes the Regulation for the Application of the Code de Work;
VISA: The Decree number 774-01 of when and where July 20, year and we will announce 2001, which establishes the Organic and Functional Regulations of the Secretariat of State de Work;
VISA: Regulation number 1894 of when and where August 11th year and we will announce 1980 for the application of the Act 116-80;
VISA: The Decree number 548-03 of when and where June 6th year and we will announce 2003, which establishes the Regulation on the Insurance Occupational Risks;
VISA: The Decree number 989-03 of when and where October 9, 2003, which creates the Council National Occupational Health and Safety (CONSSO);
VISA: The Decree number 522-06, of when and where October 17, 2006, which establishes the Health and Safety Regulations in the work;
CONSIDERING: That the article 420 del Code de Work of the Dominican Republic provides that: “The Secretariat of State de Workas the organ representative of the The ability to Executive in terms of work, is the highest authority administrative in everything related to relations between employers and workers, and to maintaining normality in the activities of the production in the Republic. For the best fulfillment of its functions, the Secretariat of State de Work will have a Department de Work and will offer, among others, employment services, statistics on work, mediation y arbitration and industrial hygiene and safety”;
CONSIDERING: That the article 421 del Code de Work of the Dominican Republic provides that "The Secretary of State de Work will use the prerogatives of his authority, issuing the provisions it considers appropriate for the best application of the laws and regulations, and maintaining the mass surveillance necessary for the employees of your dependence fulfill the obligations that correspond to them";
CONSIDERING: That the article 186 of the Act 87-01 which creates the System Dominican of Social security provides that “The Secretariat of State de Work will define a political national de prevention of accidents of work and occupational diseases, taking into consideration the safety of the employee, the economic possibilities of companies and the predominant educational and cultural factors. Companies and employers will be obliged to put into practice Areas the basic measures of prevention established by the Secretariat of State de Work and/or the Safety and Hygiene Committee, with the Superintendence of Health and Risks
Labor empowered to impose the sanctions established in this law and its complementary regulations”;
CONSIDERING: That the article 17 del Decree No. 522-06 which establishes the Safety and Health Regulations in the Work provides that “This Regulation repeals the Decree No. 807 of when and where December 30, 1966 and any other provision contrary. The present Decree It will be supplemented by the Resolutions issued by the Secretary of State de Work in accordance with the provisions of the article 420 del Code de Work of the Dominican Republic”;
RESOLVE
I. GENERAL CONDITIONS RELATING TO SAFETY AND HEALTH AT THE WORKPLACE WORK.
1. Safety and Health Conditions at the Workplace Work
2. Safety Conditions for the Use of Machinery and Tools Work.
3. Physical, Chemical and Biological Risks. In Private: Radioactivity, Vibrations, Boilers and Cylinders at the Site of Work.
4. Safety Signs At The Workplace Work.
5. Personal Protective Equipment At The Workplace Work.
6. Joint Committee on Safety and Health in the Work
7. Workplace Health and Safety Program Requirements Work.
8. Criteria for Location and Performance of Work by Workers.
9. First Aid.
II. PARTICULAR SAFETY AND HEALTH CONDITIONS AT THE WORKPLACE WORK ACCORDING TO THE ACTIVITY.
Mines, Quarries, Undergrounds, Drilling Pits, Ditches, Cellars and Silos
Offices
Construction
III. INFRINGEMENTS AND PENALTIES
I. GENERAL CONDITIONS RELATING TO SAFETY AND HEALTH AT THE WORKPLACE WORK.
1. SAFETY AND HEALTH CONDITIONS AT THE WORKPLACE WORK
The employer must take all relevant actions with the object that the places of work as well as the equipment used by the workers remain hygienic and in good condition. state.
The dimensions of the premises, which house places of work, must allow workers to carry out their work in appropriate ergonomic conditions, without risks to their safety and health.
The employer must ensure that cleaning operations do not in themselves constitute a source of risk for the workers who carry them out or for third parties.
The employer must ensure that the floors of the work places are work, as well as the transit corridors and exits are kept free of obstacles that prevent easy and Safety displacement of workers, both in normal tasks and in situations of emergency. The hallways must estar delimited by yellow lines painted on the floor.
In all places of work used by workers, the employer will ensure that sufficient and adequate ventilation is maintained by natural or artificial means that provide the places with work aire pure or purified and that contributes to providing comfortable environmental conditions, not causing discomfort that harms the health of the employee. Likewise, the employer must take the appropriate measures in order to avoid workplaces work the existence of temperatures and
extreme humidity, sudden changes in temperature, annoying draughts and unpleasant odours.
When artificial ventilation devices are used, the employer must ensure that the cleaning of said devices is carried out following the manufacturer's instructions.
El work ventilation of the places of work It will be designed in crafts that fresh and clean air is guaranteed reason from 30 to 50 cubic meters per hour and by workers, or such a quantity that it carries out a cultural, full of air several times per hour, renewed a minimum of 6 times for sedentary workers and 10 times for active workers.
When there are agents classified as environmental pollutants that could be harmful to the health of workers, such as aerosols, fumes, gases, vapors or other harmful emanations, the pollutants must be captured at their source and their dispersion in the workplace must be prevented. work. Whatever the proceedings of ventilation employee, it must be ensured that the environmental concentration of such contaminants within the place of work do not exceed the internationally established permissible limits.
All places of work used by workers must estar appropriately illuminated, and where possible, that the lighting is natural, supplemented by artificial lighting if the former alone does not guarantee adequate visibility conditions. In such cases, general artificial lighting will preferably be used, supplemented in turn by artificial lighting. natural, in those areas where specific lighting levels are required.
Minimum lighting levels in places of work will be those established in the following table:
Luxury Luxury
Elevators 200 Local the service – laundry 300
Carpentry-saw 300 Materials – load, transport 200
Building Construction – General 100 Assembly – General, Easy View 300
Sheet metal, presses, shears Assembly – medium
500 1.000
Deposits asset
200 General offices-areas* 1.000
Deposit inactive
50 Corridors 200
Electrical equipment, tests 1.000 Painting by immersion, by spraying 500
Granaje – areas of reparación 1.000 Platforms of load 200
Garages – traffic areas 200 Detailed drawing rooms* 2.100
Inspection, very difficult 2.100 Welding-General 500
Inspection, normal 500 Machinery shops-work average 1.000
These minimum levels must be doubled when the following conditions occur: circumstances:
In the areas or premises of use general and on the roads, when due to their characteristics, state u occupation, there are significant risks of falls, collisions or other accidents.
In areas where work is being carried out, when a error of visual appreciation may pose a danger to the employee or to third parties or when the contrast of luminances or color between the object to view and the fondo on which it is located is very weak.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraphs, these limits shall not apply to those activities whose nature prevents them.
The distribution of lighting levels will be as uniform as possible and appropriate to the visual demands of the task, avoiding sudden variations in luminance or glare caused by reflective surfaces located in the area de operación.
No systems or sources of information will be used. light, which harm the perception of the contrasts, depth or distance between objects in the place of work, which produce a visual impression of intermittence or which may give place to effects image distortion.
They should also not be used in places of work lighting with high pressure sodium lamps.
The places of work, part of the same, in which a failure of normal lighting supposes a risk For the safety of workers, they will have lighting emergency, evacuation and security.
The lighting systems used must be approved for electrical risks, fire or explosion.
It should be put to provision workers, in sufficient quantities, drinking water or any other healthy drink. Water fountains shall be marked with an indication of whether or not the water is drinkable, whenever there may be any doubts in this regard.
Everywhere in work, where he type of activity requires the cultural, of clothing, you should estar equipped with a fixed or mobile area intended for dressing room, whose interior space must estar clean and protected from external weather conditions. When men and women work, changing rooms must be independent and separate.
In these areas there must be wardrobe lockers that will be in good condition, will be ventilated and in number equal to the total number of workers employed in the work or task.
In those activities in which workers are exposed to toxic or infectious substances, they must have two (2) individual, separate and independent lockers, one for work clothes and the other for clothing. work and another to the usual clothing. In this /// will responsibility The employer must ensure that the washing or disinfection of clothing is carried out. work y adopt measures to prevent the employee or any other person move such clothing out of the place of work.
The places of work will be available, in the vicinity of the stalls, work and the changing rooms, sinks, toilets and showers. The toilets will have a water discharge and role in Hygienic. Special, closed containers shall be installed in toilets used by women to prevent the spread of blood-borne diseases. Toilet cubicles shall be fitted with a door with an internal lock.
The minimum number of toilets, sinks and showers will be 1 for every 20 workers, when the number of workers in the company exceeds 100, there will be one more toilet and one more shower for every 25 workers, and when the payroll of the company exceeds 250 workers, one for every 30, except for the handwashing stations, which will have one for every 30 workers when the payroll of the company exceeds 100 workers. In men's toilets, 50% of the toilets may be replaced by individual or collective urinals, and in the latter case ///, the equivalence will be 60 centimeters in length per urinal.
Separation by sex of health areas and use: Changing rooms, toilets and lavatories shall be separate for men and women, or separate use of them shall be provided. They shall not be used for purposes other than those for which they are intended.
Sanitary facilities shall be maintained in a clean and satisfactory condition.
Everywhere work must have, at least, a portable first aid kit containing authorized disinfectants and antiseptics, sterile gauze, cotton wool, bandages, adhesive tape, adhesive dressings, scissors, tweezers, disposable gloves and essential medications such as painkillers and antacids.
First aid supplies will be checked periodically and replenished as soon as they expire or are used.
When the number of workers in the company out of a hundred (
100 ) or more for turn, working in the same premises and crafts concomitantly one or more first aid stations will be installed, under the control of a doctor and in those cases where the number of workers per turn is less to one hundred (100) and the companies that are in the classification of risk one (1), the assistance It may be given by a nurse or a technician certificates in first aid for a institution recognized by the Secretary of State of Public Health and Assistance Social.
First aid stations should estar properly marked and in easily accessible places.
First aid facilities must have, as a minimum, a first aid kit, a portable stretcher, a source of drinking water, solutions and oxygen, a wheelchair, immobilizers, harnesses and a neck brace.
The buildings and premises of the places of work, as well as the elements installed in them, must own the structure and solidity appropriate to its type of use.
The floors of premises that house places of work Stairs must be fixed, stable and non-slip, without irregularities or dangerous slopes. Openings or uneven surfaces, including open parts of stairs, which pose a risk to the user, must be risk In the event of people falling, they will be protected by railings or other equivalent safety systems, which may have moving parts when it is necessary to provide access to the opening.
The railings will be made of rigid materials, will have a minimum height of 90 centimeters and will have protection that prevents plunge or sliding underneath them or objects falling on people.
Workers must power to carry out crafts safe operations of opening, closing, adjusting or fixing windows and ventilation devices. When they are open they should not be placed in such a way crafts that may constitute a risk for the workers.
Windows and ceiling lighting fixtures must power clean without risk for workers who perform this task or for those who are in the building and its surroundings.
The circulation routes of the places of work, both those located outside buildings and premises and inside them, including doors, hallways, stairs, ramps and docks. load, will be used as seen here as expected, of crafts easy and completely safe for pedestrians or vehicles that circulate on them and for personnel working in their vicinity.
At the /// of the docks and ramps of load should be especially taken into account account the dimensions of the loads transported. The minimum width of exterior doors and corridors will be 1 metro and 90 cm., respectively.
The width of the roads on which means of transport and pedestrians can circulate must allow their plunge simultaneous and with a separation sufficient security.
Circulation routes intended for vehicles must be at a sufficient distance from doors, gates, pedestrian circulation areas, corridors and stairs.
To to guarantee the safety of workers, the layout of the traffic routes must estar clearly signposted.
Doors and gates will not generate risk for workers:
Transparent or translucent surfaces of doors and gates that are not made of safety material must be protected against breakage when this may pose a danger to workers.
Swinging doors and gates must be transparent at least four feet from the ground or have transparent parts that allow visibility of the area which is accessed.
Sliding doors must estar provided with a work safety equipment to prevent them from going off the rails and falling.
Doors and gates that open upwards will have a work safety device to prevent it from falling.
Mechanical doors and gates must operate without risk for workers. They will have stop devices emergency easy identification and access, and may be opened in crafts manual, unless they open automatically in /// de fault of the work de emergency.
Doors leading to stairs shall not open directly onto the steps, but onto landings at least as wide as the steps.
1.34.7. Gates intended primarily for the circulation of vehicles may be used by pedestrians without risk to their safety.
security, or carefully They must have clearly marked doors in their immediate vicinity for this purpose.
1.34.8 In every place intended for use for more than 10 people, the doors must open outwards.
The pavements of ramps, stairs and platforms work They will be made of non-slip materials or have non-slip elements. In stairs or platforms with perforated floors, the opening maxim of the interstices will be 8 millimeters.
The ramps will have a slope maxim 12% when its length is less than 3 meters, 10% when its length is less that 10 meters or 8% in the rest of the cases.
The stairs will have a minimum width of 1 metro, except those used in crafts occasional, whose minimum width will be 55 centimeters.
The steps of a staircase must have the same dimensions. Spiral staircases are prohibited except if they are of use occasional.
The steps of the stairs that are of use regular, will have a tread of 17 centimeters, and a riser of 29 centimeters. In /// If for reasons of space these dimensions have to be varied, this must be taken into account account that the sum of one footprint plus two counter-footprints must add up to 63 centimeters.
The height maxim between the landings of the stairs will be 3,7 meters. The depth of the intermediate landings, measured in steer axle truck to the stairs, it will not be less that half of the width of this, nor less out of 1 metro. Space spirit vertical from the steps will not be less at 2,2 meters.
Escalators and moving walkways must be in working order and have the necessary devices to to guarantee the safety of workers who use them. Their safety stop devices emergency will be easily identifiable and accessible.
The minimum width of fixed stairs will be 55 centimeters and the distance maxim between 30-centimeter steps.
In fixed stairs, the distance between the front of the steps and the walls closest to the side of the ascent will be at least 75 centimetres. The minimum distance between the front of the steps and the walls closest to the ascent side will be XNUMX centimetres. part back of the steps and the object The nearest fixed point will be 16 centimeters. There will be a space spirit 40 centimetres on both sides of the axis of the ladder if it is not provided with cages or other equivalent devices.
When the plunge from the final section of a fixed staircase to the surface to be accessed involves a risk of falling by lack of supports, the railing or lateral of the staircase will be extended at least 1 metro above the last step or alternative measures will be taken to provide safety equivalent.
Fixed vertical ladders with a height greater than 2.44 metres (8 feet) shall have, at least from that height, surrounding protection. If fixed ladders are used for heights greater than 9 metres, platforms shall be installed. rest every 9 meters or fraction.
Ladders will have the resistance and the support and fastening elements necessary so that its use in the required conditions does not entail a risk from falling, due to breakage or displacement of the same. In particular, stepladders will have safety elements that prevent their opening or close when used.
Ladders will be used as follows: crafts and with the specifications established by the manufacturer. Ladders will not be used and, in particular, stairs of more than 5 meters in length, of which resistance there are no guarantees. Which gives prohibited use of improvised construction ladders.
Before using a ladder you must ensure its stability. The base of the ladder must be solidly supported. In the /// of simple stairs the part The upper part will be fastened, if necessary, to the Wall o wall on which it rests and when this does not allow stable support it will be fastened to it by means of a clamp or other equivalent devices.
Simple ladders should be placed, as far as possible, at an angle of approximately 75 degrees.
with the horizontal. When used to access high places, their length must be extended by at least 1 metro above this.
Ascent, descent and work from stairs will be carried out facing them using three support points. crafts permanent. Work at a height of more than 2.44 meters (8 feet) from the point of operación to the ground, which require movements or efforts that are dangerous for the stability of the employee, will only be carried out if a safety belt is used or other alternative protection measures are adopted. The transport and handling of loads by or from ladders is prohibited when, due to their weight or dimensions may compromise the safety of employee. Ladders may not be used by two or more people simultaneously.
Ladders must be checked periodically. The use of painted wooden ladders is prohibited due to the difficulty involved in detecting possible defects.
Evacuation routes and exits must remain free of obstacles and lead as directly as possible to the outside or to a area security. In /// of danger, workers must power evacuate all places of work quickly and in conditions of maxim security.
The number, distribution and dimensions of evacuation routes and exits will depend on the use, of the equipment and the dimensions of the places of work, as well as the maximum number of people who can estar present in them.
The doors of emergency They must open in the direction of evacuation and must not have devices that prevent their opening. opening. Doors are prohibited. emergency type sliding or rotating.
8 The specific evacuation routes and exits and the doors located along the routes of said routes must estar adequately and durably signposted.
En /// de fault of the lighting, evacuation routes and exits that require lighting, must estar equipped with safety lighting of sufficient intensity.
The places of work they should estar equipped with fire fighting devices suitable for the type de risk existing in the area and if necessary, fire detectors and systems alarm.
Non-automatic devices fight Fire fighting equipment must be easily accessible and easy to handle and estar marked.
The electrical installation must not entail any risk of fire or explosion. Workers must estar properly protected against the risks of accident caused by direct or indirect contacts. The electrical installation and protection devices must take into account account the amount of current (amperage), the external conditioning factors and the competition of persons who have access to parts of the facility.
The places of work and in particular doors, circulation routes, stairs, toilets and stands work, used or occupied by disabled workers, must estar conditioned so that these workers can use them.
2. SAFETY CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF MACHINERY AND TOOLS WORK.
All machinery must be suitable for prevent el risk explosion, both of the equipment work as well as the substances produced, used or stored by it.
In cases where there is risk of explosion or breakage of elements of the machinery that may to affect the safety or health of workers, appropriate protective measures must be taken.
If necessary, the machinery operator will have the legal obligation to make sure from the command post principal of absence of persons in the dangerous areas. If this is not possible, the start-up must always be automatically preceded by a work de alarm, just like a signal acoustic or visual warning. The employee exposed must have the tiempo and sufficient means to quickly escape the risks caused by the start-up or operation detention of the machinery.
The machinery involved risk from falling objects or projections should estar provided with protective devices appropriate to such risks.
The machinery involved risk by the emission of gases, vapors, liquids or by issue of dust or pollution, you should estar provided with suitable devices for catchment or extraction of said elements, located in the corresponding emission sources.
If necessary for the safety or health of workers, machinery and its components must be stabilized by fixing or other means. Machinery whose use requires workers to stand on it must have adequate means to to guarantee that access and permanence in said machinery does not constitute a risk for the safety and health of workers. In particular, when it exists risk from a fall of more than two (2) meters, they must have rigid railings with a minimum height of ninety (90) centimeters, or any other work that provides protection equivalent.
When moving parts of machinery may pose a risk of accidents due to mechanical contact, they must be equipped with guards or devices that prevent access to dangerous areas or that stop dangerous manoeuvres before access to said areas.
8 Guards and protective devices:
They will be of solid and resistant construction.
will cause additional risks.
They will include mechanisms that prevent their annulment or put out of the service easily.
Shall estar located at a sufficient distance from dangerous areas.
They should not limit the observation of the cycle more than is essential or necessary. work.
They must allow the interventions essential for the placement or the replacement of tools, and for maintenance work, limiting access only to the sector in which
must be carried out work without disassembling, if possible, the guard or the protection device. If the protection device is removed for maintenance reasons, guard must be required placement again before setting the machinery in motion.
All machinery that involves risks due to noise, vibrations or radiation must have appropriate protections or devices to control the generación and spread of these physical agents.
The machinery used for storage, transfer or treatment corrosive or high-temperature liquids, must have adequate protection to prevent accidental contact of workers with them.
The parts of a team work that reach high or very low temperatures, they must estar protected, where appropriate, against risks of contact or proximity to workers.
Teams work that are used in aggressive climatic or industrial environmental conditions that involve a risk For the safety and health of workers, they must estar conditioned for the work in such environments and have, in their ///, of appropriate protection systems, such as cabins or others.
Machinery whose movement may cause risks to workers must meet the following conditions:
Have the means to prevent unauthorized start-up.
Have a braking and stopping device, as well as stops emergency, easily accessible.
Have appropriate auxiliary devices that improve visibility when the driver's direct field of vision is insufficient to to guarantee safety, as well as with lighting devices.
Have appropriate devices to combat fire, a /// that by themselves, or due to their trailers or loads, they entail risks of fire that may endanger the safety and health of workers.
Be equipped with devices that allow, if controlled remotely, to stop automatically when leaving the control field, to avoid idea any product type of impact or trapping of workers.
Be equipped with acoustic warning signals, when, due to their mobility or that of the loads they move, they may pose a risk risk for the safety of workers located nearby.
Machinery used to lift workers must estar conditioned and equipped to avoid the risk of overturning, by measures such as the following:
installation of a driver's cab.
a structure that prevents the machinery from tipping over.
A structure that ensures that, in /// tipping, there is enough space for the employee or workers, between the ground and certain parts of said machinery, to prevent them from becoming trapped by it.
A structure that prevents the risk of the fall of transported workers.
Machinery used for lifting loads must estar firmly installed.
Devices alarm of the machinery must be easily perceptible and understandable.
The machinery must carry the necessary warnings and signs for to guarantee the health and safety of workers.
Machinery that, due to its use, represents risk direct contact or indirect with electricity, they must have safety devices that protect exposed workers against saying risk.
Forklifts or load lifting machinery, a visible indication of the load limit must appear. weight de load.
In the cranes installed in crafts permanent, preventive measures must be taken to avoid the risk That the load plummet, become loose, or unintentionally deviate in a dangerous manner, or otherwise strike workers.
The machinery can only be started by means of a action voluntary on an actuating device provided for such purpose effect. Saying device must estar clearly identified.
The actuating devices shall estar located outside hazardous areas and must not pose any risks resulting from accidental handling.
The machinery must estar provided with an operating device that allows it to stop completely under safe conditions.
The machinery will be installed and used in a way that the risks for workers are reduced, taking into account account la necesidad Of space spirit enough.
Workers must power access and remain in safe conditions, in all necessary places, to use, adjust or maintain in good condition state de use, the machinery of work.
The machinery must not be used in crafts or under conditions contraindicated by the manufacturer. Nor may it be used without the protective elements provided for carrying out the operation. operación concerned.
No employee shall not operate the machinery without the appropriate protective devices in place. No person may be required to employee who uses machinery without the safety devices with which it is provided being in place.
No employee You must disable the protective devices provided on the machinery you use.
The employer will ensure that they are not used in the workplace. work Machinery that has any part dangerous, including organs work (point of operación) lacking adequate protection mechanisms.
The use of machinery without adequate protective devices is prohibited.
Before using machinery, its protection devices and operating conditions must be checked. use, are adequate and that their connection or start-up does not represent a danger to workers. The machinery work will cease to be used if deterioration, breakdowns or other problems occur circumstances that compromise the safety of its operation.
When using machinery with accessible hazardous elements that cannot be fully protected, appropriate precautions and personal protection must be taken to control the risks. If, while using machinery, it is necessary to clean or remove debris near a hazardous element, the operación must be carried out with appropriate auxiliary means that guarantee an adequate safety distance.
Workers whose labor It is performed near moving machinery and transmission organs, the use loose clothing, long, loose hair, and jewelry that could be caught in moving parts.
Machinery must not be subjected to overloads, overpressures, excessive speeds or tensions that may endanger the safety and health of the operator. employee that uses it or that of other workers.
When the use of machinery can give give rise to dangerous projections or radiation, protective measures must be taken to to guarantee the safety and health of workers who use them or are in their vicinity.
In special environments, such as wet or highly conductive premises, premises with high risk de fire, explosive atmospheres or corrosive environments, machinery that in saying environment that poses a danger to the safety and health of workers.
Machinery that may be struck by lightning during use must be estar protected by appropriate devices or measures against them.
The assembly and disassembly of the machinery must be carried out safely, especially by means of the fulfillment from the manufacturer's instructions.
9 Maintenance, adjustment, unlocking, review o reparación of the machinery that may pose a danger to the safety and health of workers, will be carried out after haber stopped or disconnected the machinery, haber verified the existence of residual energies and haber taken the necessary measures to prevent its accidental start-up or connection while the operation is being carried out. operación. When the detention or disconnection is not possible, the necessary measures will be taken to ensure that these operations are carried out in a safe manner. crafts safe or out of dangerous areas.
The tools manuals they should estar They must be made of resistant materials and the joints between their elements must be firm, so as to avoid breakages or projections. Their handles or grips must be of adequate dimensions, without sharp edges or slippery surfaces, and insulated where necessary.
The tools manuals They must have the characteristics and sizes appropriate to the operación to be carried out. Your placement and transportation must not entail risks to the safety and health of workers.
Driving machinery work motor vehicles, will be reserved for workers who have received specific training for the safe driving of such machinery. work.
When a employee is operating machinery in a area determined, appropriate traffic regulations must be established and respected and the routes used for such machinery must be respected and signposted.
The machinery of work mobile phones equipped with a combustion engine must not be used in areas of work, unless they guarantee a sufficient quantity of air that does not pose risks to the safety and health of workers. In no case /// will be allowed use of internal combustion machinery in closed spaces.
The lifting of workers on mobile machinery will only be permitted using machinery of work and accessories provided for such effect.
The presence of workers under suspended loads will not be permitted.
It will not be allowed plunge of loads above places of work unprotected, usually occupied by workers. In /// If this is not possible, because the work cannot be carried out in any other way, procedures must be defined and applied to prevent the load collapse on the workers.
Lifting accessories should be selected based on the loads being handled, the pressure points, the hitch device and the atmospheric conditions, and taking into account account the mode and configuration of the mooring. Lifting accessory assemblies shall estar clearly marked to allow the employee know their characteristics, if they are not disassembled after being used.
If two or more machines work For lifting non-guided loads, they are installed or mounted in a place of work so that their fields of action overlap, appropriate measures must be taken to prevent collisions between loads or elements of the machinery itself.
During the use of machinery work mobile for lifting non-guided loads, measures must be taken to prevent their swinging, overturning and, in their ///, displacement and sliding.
If the operator of a machinery work For lifting unguided loads, you cannot observe the entire path of the load, a signalman must be appointed to guide him and measures must be taken Company to avoid collisions of the load that may endanger workers. Workers who operate or serve as guides during the operación of these machines, they must estar trained in signal systems.
If any machinery work for lifting non-guided loads, it cannot hold the loads, in /// de fault partial or total power supply interruption, appropriate measures must be taken to prevent the exposure of workers to risks that affect their safety and health.
Suspended loads must not be left unsecured. mass surveillance, except in the following cases:
Es imposible access to the area of danger
La load It has been hung safely and remains in place. crafts completely safe.
3. PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RISKS. IN PARTICULAR: RADIOACTIVITY, VIBRATIONS, BOILERS AND CYLINDERS AT THE PLACE OF WORK.
1 Physical Risks
The employer must measure and evaluate the exposure of workers to noise with the object to determine whether the limits or levels set out in this regulation are exceeded and to apply, if necessary, the appropriate preventive measures.
The evaluation of the exposure of workers to noise will be based on noise measurements. Noise measurements must be representative of the conditions of exposure to the same and must allow the determination of the level diario equivalent and the level peak.
Those cases in which it is directly observed that in a position of work el level diario equivalent or level peak are clearly lower than 80 dB and 140 dB
In the stalls of work in which the level diario equivalent or level If peak noise levels exceed 80 dB or 140 dB, respectively, the reasons for exceeding these limits will be analysed and a programme of technical measures will be developed to reduce the generación or the spread of noise, or organizational measures aimed at reducing the exposure of workers to noise. All of this will be reported to the affected workers and to the Safety and Health Committees at the workplace. work.
In the places of work where it is not technically and reasonably possible to reduce the level diario equivalent or level peak below the limits mentioned in the previous section and, in all ///, while the program is in the development phase
measures conceived To this end, the following preventive measures should be adopted:
Periodic (annual) medical checks of workers' hearing function.
When the noise is greater than 80 dB (A) the company will put to provision of all workers hearing protectors and their use will required.
As long as the risk justified and technically possible, the places of work exposure noise will be delimited and object of a restriction of access.
2 Chemical risks:
When in the company chemical agents capable of causing are used effects adverse effects on workers, the employer must evaluate the level de exposure in order of find out if the permitted limits are exceeded. The permissible limits for chemical substances are reference indices of the risk occupational.
At the /// where a representative measurement of concentrations of chemicals existing at the site work demonstrate that the limits have been exceeded values which are established as permissible limits, the employer must immediately initiate the necessary actions to control the risk at its source. Pending the adoption of such measures, the employer shall provide and ensure the use by part of personal protection workers. In any case ///, the employer will be responsible for preventing workers from carrying out their work in conditions of risk for your health.
Environmental concentrations of chemical contaminants should not exceed values limits set out in this Regulation.
Indicative and non-exhaustive table of Values Limit Updated Annually According To The Publication From the American Governmental Conference on Industrial Hygiene.
TLV-TWA substances
N-butyl acetate 150 ppm
Ethyl acetate 400 ppm
Methyl acetate 200 ppm
Iso-propyl acetate 100 ppm
Vinyl acetate 10 ppm
Acetone 500 ppm
Acetonitrile 20 ppm
Fomic acid 5 ppm
Phosphoric acid 1mg/m3
Nitric acid 2ppm
Oxalic acid 1mg/m3
Picric acid 0.1 mg/m3
Propionic acid 10 ppm
Sulfuric acid 0.2 mg/m3
Ethyl acrylate 5 ppm
Methyl acrylate 2 ppm
Acrylonitrile 2 ppm
Aryl alcohol 0.5 ppm
Iso-amyl alcohol 100 ppm
Ethyl alcohol 1000 ppm
Furfuryl alcohol 10 ppm
n-propyl alcohol 200 ppm
Aluminum (dust) 10 mg/m3
Acetic anhydride 5 ppm
Maleic anhydride 0.1 ppm
Aniline 2 ppm
Antimony 0.5 mg/m3
Arsine 0.05 ppm
Benzene 0.5 ppm
Beryllium 0.002 mg/m3
Bromine 0.1 ppm
Ethyl bromide 5 ppm
Methyl bromide 1 ppm
1,3-butadiene 2 ppm
Cadmium 0.001 mg/m3
Quicklime 5 mg/m3
Calcium carbide 0.5 mg/m3
Cyanogen 10 ppm
Cyanides 2.0 mg/m3
Cyclohexane 300 ppm
Cyclohexanol 50 ppm
Cyclohexanone 20 ppm
Zirconium 5 mg/m3
Chlorine 0.5 ppm
Chlorobenzene 10 ppm
Chloroform 10 ppm
Allyl chloride 1 ppm
Benzyl chloride 1 ppm
Ethyl chloride 100 ppm
Methylene chloride 50 ppm
Vinylidene chloride monomer 5 ppm
Vinyl chloride 1 ppm
DDT 1 mg/m3
Decaborane 0.5 ppm
Diacetone alcohol 50 ppm
O-dichlorobenzene 25 ppm
p-dichlorobenzene 10 ppm
1,2-dichloroethane 100 ppm
1,2-dinitrobenzene 0.15 ppm
Dinitrotoluene 0.2 mg/m3
Dioxane (diethylene dioxide) 20 ppm
Sulfur dioxide 2 ppm
Carbon dioxide 5,000 ppm
Chlorine dioxide 0.1 ppm
Nitrogen dioxide 3.0 ppm
Stoddard solvent 100 ppm
Ethanolamine 3 ppm
Ethyl ether 400 ppm
Ethylamine 5 ppm
Ethylbenzene 100 ppm
Ethyl butyl ketone 5 ppm
Ethylenediamine 10 ppm
Ethyleneimine 0.5 ppm
2-ethylhexanol 5 mg/m3
Ethyl mercaptan 0.5 ppm
Epichlorohydrin 0.5 ppm
Styrene monomer 20 ppm
Phenylhydrazine 0.1 ppm
Phenol 5 ppm
Fluoride 0.5 mg/m3
Fluorides 2.5 mg/m3
Phosgene 0.1 ppm
Furfural 2 ppm
Gasoline 300 ppm
Glycerin 10 mg/m3
n-heptane 400 ppm
n-hexane 50 ppm
Hydrazine 0.01 ppm
Potassium hydroxide
Lithium hydride 0.025 mg/m3
Kerosene 200 mg/m3
Magnesium 10 mg/m3
Manganese 0.2 mg/m3
Mercury 0.02
Methylal 1000 ppm
Methylamine 5 ppm
Methylaniline 0.5 ppm
Methyl butyl ketone 5 ppm
Methyl ethyl ketone 200 ppm
Methylcyclohexane 400 ppm
o-methylcyclohexanol 50 ppm
Methylcyclohexanone 50 ppm
Methylchloroform 350 ppm
Methylstyrene 50 ppm
Methylhydrazine 0.01 ppm
Methyl isobutyl ketone 50 ppm
Methyl mercaptan 0.5 ppm
Methylpropyl ketone 200 ppm
Molybdenum 0.5 mg/m3
Morpholine 20 ppm
Carbon monoxide 25 ppm
Naphthalene 10 ppm
Nicotine 0.5 mg/m3
Nickel carbonyl 0.05 ppm
p-nitroaniline 3 mg/m3
Nitrobenzene 1 ppm
o-nitrochlorobenzene 0.1 ppm
Nitroethane 100 ppm
Nitromethane 20 ppm
1-nitropropane 25 ppm
2-nitropropane 10 ppm
Nitrotoluene 2 ppm
Octane 300 ppm
Calcium oxide 2 mg/m3
Ethylene oxide 1 ppm
Nitric oxide 25 ppm
Propylene oxide 2 ppm
Parathion 0.5 mg/m3
Pentaborane 0.005 ppm
Pentachlorophenol 0.5 mg/m3
n-pentane 600 ppm
Phosphorus pentasulfide 1 mg/m3
Benzoyl peroxide 5 mg/m3
Hydrogen peroxide (52%) 1 ppm
Pyridine 1 ppm
Lead 0.5 mg/m3
Propionaldehyde 20 ppm
Selenium 0.2 mg/m3
Silica or silicates 0.05 mg/m3
Amorphous 10 mg/m3
Dimethyl sulfate 0.1 ppm
Hydrogen sulfide 10 ppm
1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane 1 ppm
Tetrachloroethylene 25 ppm
Carbon tetrachloride 5 ppm
Tetrahydrofuran 200 ppm
Toluene 50 ppm
Toluidine 2 ppm
Turpentine 20 ppm
Trichloroethylene 50 ppm
Los values established in the table above are measured or calculated in relationship to a period reference of the journey de work eight hours.
Mg/m3 = milligrams per metro cubic meter of air at 20º C and a aggression of 101,3 KPa (760 mm of mercury).
Ppm = Part of it per million air volume (mI/m3)
Values applicable limit for asbestos:
The average permissible concentration (CPP) of asbestos fibers in each location work, except for the crocidolite variety or blue asbestos whose use is prohibited, is established in the following values:
3. 2.8.2 For chrysotile: 0,60 fibers per cubic centimeter.
For the remaining varieties of asbestos, pure or in mixture, including mixtures containing chrysotile: 0,30 fibres per cubic centimetre.
Which gives The use of any variety of asbestos by means of projection, especially by atomization, as well as any activity that involves the incorporation of low-density insulation or soundproofing materials is prohibited (less a 1 g/cm³) containing asbestos.
Values Limits applicable to inorganic lead and its derivatives:
El value environmental limit for the exposure daily is 0,15 mg/metro cubic. The value The biological limit for lead in blood is 40 g/100 ml of blood.
Price Limit for benzene: 3,25 milligrams per metro cubic and 1 ppm
biological risks
If they are identified at the place of work risks related to the exposure to biological agents during the work, for those that could not be avoided, they will be evaluated by determining the nature, degree and duration of exposure of the workers and control measures will be taken based on the results.
A new evaluation will be carried out. risk when it has been detected in any employee an infection or disease which is suspected to be the result of a exposure to biological agents at the site of work.
Risk of Ionizing Radiation
Workers exposed to ionizing radiation are considered to be:
Those people who, due to the conditions in which the work is carried out work, may to receive an effective dose greater than
6 Mvs. per year and we will announce or a dose equivalent greater than 3/10 of the dose limits equivalent for the lens, skin and limbs. For them it is required el use of individual dosimeters that measure the external dose representative of the entire body and in /// de risk de contamination partial or non-homogeneous, dosimeters appropriate to the potentially affected parts, or carefully, a /// de risk de exposure.
Those people who, due to the conditions in which they carry out the work It is very unlikely that they will receive doses higher than those indicated in the previous paragraph, if area dosimetry is available, they will be exempt from the use of personal dosimeters In all /// The doses received must be less than the established limits.
The established signage symbols must be used to indicate the existence of risk radiation and workers must be provided with all the insights necessary in this regard.
Women in period lactation o pregnancy They cannot perform work that involves a risk de contamination.
All person that is going to be destined for a place of work risk de exposure must undergo a health examination prior to the start of the work.
Dose limits for exposed workers:
100 Mvs. during a period for 5 consecutive official years, sujeto at an effective dose maxim of 50 Mvs. in any year and we will announce.
Dose limit equivalent for the crystalline: 150 Mvs. per year and we will announce.
Dose limit equivalent for skin: 500 Mvs. per year and we will announce. Saying limit will apply to the dose averaged over any 1 square centimeter surface, with independence of area exposed.
Dose limit equivalent for hands, forearms, feet and ankles: 500 Mvs. per year and we will announce.
Vibes
All company If you are going to install machinery that, due to the nature of the manufacturing processes, produces large vibrations, you will notify the company Address General of Industrial Hygiene and Safety of the Secretariat of State de Work, in order to comply with the recommendations of use of the cushioning material at the base of the machinery.
Existing companies in the country, which by their nature use machinery that causes large vibrations, will protect their personnel against injury and will take advantage of the opportunities reparación with the dismantling of these machines, floors, walls, and other economically feasible conditions, to introduce the relevant modifications that cushion the vibrations.
3.5.2.1 The employer shall notify the Address General Industrial Hygiene and Safety, any reparación or modification of this type that can make the reduction of vibrations plausible by modern methods.
Boilers
Steam boilers and their accessories must have resistance sufficient to the internal pressures to which they are subjected.
The following shall be marked on every boiler: year and we will announce manufacturing and pressure maxim permitted, which will be established by the manufacturer. The employer will keep a record of the inspections and repairs carried out. The boilers will be checked at least once a year. year and we will announce and when the circumstances demand it.
Boilers located in industrial establishments will be installed in fire-resistant premises and separated at least three meters from the place of work closest and when in the company flammable materials are manufactured, used or released, the places of work They shall be completely separated from the rooms where the boilers are located. Gas boilers shall have sufficient ventilation to prevent gas build-up.
The boilers will be provided with safety valves, shut-off valves, taps to determine the level water, pressure gauges and other accessories necessary for the safety of operación of the same. They must also have adequate drainage equipment and must not be installed in closed spaces.
Cylinders
Cylinders for compressed, liquefied or dissolved gases and their accessories shall have the following resistance enough to withstand the pressures to which they are subjected and which, in all ///, will not be higher than those established by the manufacturer.
Every cylinder shall have visible markings indicating the type of gas it contains, weight maximum, pressure maxim permissible. The when and where of manufacturing must estar recorded and hydrostatic tests must be carried out every 5 years and the dates of these tests engraved on the surface of the cylinder.
The premises where cylinders are stored shall be fire-resistant and shall not contain flammable materials or heat sources. Cylinders shall be stored in a vertical position and secured so that they cannot fall. crafts fortuitous. Its handling will be carried out avoiding that they suffer falls and crafts that the safety valve and its corresponding protective caps are in place before handling. The cylinders will be stored separately using the use of fire resistant structures according to the type of gas they contain. Likewise, empty cylinders will be stored separately from full cylinders.
4. SAFETY SIGNAGE AT THE PLACE OF WORK
The employer must adopt the precise measures so that in the places of work there is adequate health and safety signage.
Health and safety signage in the work should always be used when the analysis of existing risks, situations of emergency foreseeable and the preventive measures adopted, put in place manifest la necesidad of :
Draw the attention of workers to the existence of certain risks, prohibitions or obligations.
Alert workers when a certain situation occurs. emergency requiring urgent protection or evacuation measures.
Make it easier for workers to locate and identification of certain means or installations for protection, evacuation, emergency or first aid.
To guide or direct workers who perform certain dangerous maneuvers.
Signage should not be considered a substitute for technical and organisational collective protection measures and should be used when the latter have not been able to eliminate or control the risks.
4 Types of Signals
Warning signs:
Shape triangular, black pictogram on fondo yellow (50% of the surface must be covered by yellow), black edges.
Just like exception’s most emblematic landmarks, the fondo of signal on harmful or irritating materials will be orange instead of yellow to avoid confusion with other similar signs used to regulate road traffic.
Signals of prohibition:
Shape round, black pictogram on fondo white, edges and band (transverse descending from left to right crossing the pictogram at 45º with respect to the horizontal) red (the red must cover at least 35% of the surface of the signal)
Shape round white pictogram on fondo blue (in blue it must cover at least 50% of the surface of the signal)
Signs relating to equipment fight fire fighting:
Shape rectangular or square, white pictogram on fondo red (red must cover at least 50% of the surface of the signal)
Signal rescue or relief:
Shape rectangular or square. White pictogram on fondo green (green must cover at least 50% of the surface of the signal)
Light signals:
La light issued by the signal should cause a contrast appropriate luminous relative to its surroundings, depending on the conditions of use provided. Its intensity must secure your perception, without reaching produce glare.
The luminous surface that emits a signal It may be of a uniform color or carry a pictogram on a fondo determined.
If a device can emit a signal both continuous and intermittent, will be used to indicate, with respect to the signal continues, a Most degree of danger or a Most urgency of the action required
They will not be used at the same time tiempo two light signals that can give place to Confusion, not even one signal bright near another issue luminous hardly different. When using a signal flashing light, the duration and frequency of flashes must allow the
vision identification of the message, preventing it from being perceived as continuous or confused with other light signals.
Devices issue of light signals for use en /// of serious danger must be object special inspections or be provided with an auxiliary light bulb.
Acoustic signals:
Acoustic signals must have a level sound level higher than ambient noise, crafts that is clearly audible, without being excessively annoying. A sound should not be used signal acoustics when the ambient noise is too intense.
The tone of the signal acoustic or in the case of flashing signals, the duration interval and grouping of the impulses, must allow their correct identification and clear distinction from other acoustic signals or ambient noise. Two acoustic signals must not be used simultaneously.
If a device can emit acoustic signals with a variable or intermittent tone or intensity or with a continuous tone or intensity, the former shall be used to indicate why contrast with the second ones, a Most degree of danger or a Most urgency of the action required. The sound of a signal evacuation must be continuous.
4.7. Common provisions for light and sound signals:
4.7.1 One signal light or acoustic will indicate, when started, the necesidad to carry out a certain action and will continue as long as such persists. necesidad. At the end of the issue of a signal light or acoustic, measures will be immediately adopted to allow them to be used again in /// de necesidad.
4.8 The effectiveness and proper functioning of the light and acoustic signals will be checked before they enter the the service and subsequently through the necessary periodic tests.
Basic rules for signage.
The employer must choose the type de signal (bright, acoustic, in crafts panel, gestural or verbal) and its quantity taking into account account: the characteristics of the signal; the risks that you want to indicate; the extent of the area de work that it must cover and the number of workers to whom it is directed.
The employer is in the legal obligation to take into account that signage should not be considered a substitute measure for training and insights of workers in matters of safety and health in the work, nor of the technical and organizational measures of collective protection.
The employer and the employee They must respect all safety signs used in the workplace. work.
The employer must use the colors that form part of safety signs, which are: red (signal de prohibition, danger-alarm, material and equipment of fight fire fighting); yellow or orange-yellow (signal warning); blue (signal, legal obligation) and green (signal of rescue or of help, security situation). The color of contrast that frames or alternates with the security one will be the white, exception of yellow that will join with black.
The employer must ensure that the signs are installed in an appropriate position in relationship with the visual angle. The place of placement must be accessible and estar carefully illuminated.
The employer must to guarantee that the slopes or other obstacles that cause risks of people falling, colliding or hitting panels are marked insights or by alternating yellow and black stripes.
The employer must take appropriate measures with the object that the vehicle circulation routes are clearly delimited by continuous stripes of one colour carefully visible, preferably white or yellow, taking into account account the color of the ground.
5. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AT THE WORKPLACE WORK.
The employer will be in the legal obligation of :
Evaluate the places of work in order to determine those in which personal protection must be used and to specify, for each of these places, the risk or risks against which protection must be offered, the parties of the body to protect and the type of personal protective equipment or equipment to be used.
Provide workers with protective equipment free of charge individually that they must use, replacing them when necessary.
Ensure that the use, storage, maintenance, cleaning, disinfection when appropriate, and reparación of personal protective equipment is carried out in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
Personal protective equipment will provide effective protection against the risks that motivate its use. use, without themselves posing or causing additional risks or unnecessary inconvenience. To this end, they must:
Respond to existing conditions at the site work.
Have on account the anatomical and physiological conditions and the state of health of the employee.
Adapt to the carrier, after the necessary adjustments.
En /// In multi-risk situations that require the simultaneous use of several personal protective equipment, these must be compatible with each other and maintain their effectiveness in relationship with the risk or corresponding risks.
The conditions under which protective equipment must be used, as regards the tiempo during which it is to be carried out, will be determined based on:
gravity of risk.
El tiempo or frequency of exposure al risk.
site conditions work.
equipment features.
Additional risks arising from the use of the equipment that could not be avoided.
Personal protective equipment will be intended, in principle, a use individually. If the circumstances require the use of a device by several people, the necessary measures will be taken to ensure that this does not cause any health or hygiene problems for the different users.
Personal protective equipment should be the last resource to use in the hierarchy risk control.
List indicative and not limiting of personal protective equipment
5.7.1. Protectors of the cabeza:
5.7.1.1 Safety helmets (construction, mines and various industries).
5. 7.1.1.1 The types of helmets are: 5.7.1.1.1.1 use general 5.7.1.1.1.2 electricity
5.7.1.1.1.3 for mine-without electrical protection 5.7.1.1.1.4 for firefighter
5.7.1.1.1.5 protective clothing for the cabeza (hats, caps, hats, etc., made of coated fabric, etc.).
Ear protectors:
It should be selected according to the level of noise to be protected and the type de work.
Eye and face protectors:
They must estar approved for the type de work in question.
Respiratory protection:
Equipment with particle filters (annoying, harmful, toxic or radioactive).
equipment with filters for gases and vapours.
mixed risk filter equipment.
air supplied equipment auto content.
insulating equipment with air supply.
Respiratory equipment with welding helmet or shield.
Hand and arm protectors:
Gloves against mechanical risks (perforations, courteous, vibrations).
Gloves against chemical risks.
Gloves against electrical hazards.
Gloves against thermal risks.
noplas.
sleeves and cuffs.
Foot and leg protectors:
Security shoes
Class 75 – for strong impact
Class 50 – for medium impact
Class 25 – for minor impacts
Protective footwear and shoe covers.
Footwear versus electricity.
anti-fall slippery footwear
5.7.7 Skin protectors:
5.7.7.1 Protective creams and ointments.
Protectors of the trunk and the abdomen:
Vests, jackets and aprons for protection against mechanical risks (perforations, courteous, projections of molten metals).
Vests, jackets and aprons for protection against chemical risks.
Thermal vests.
life jackets.
X-ray protection aprons.
Burn protection suits.
Total protection of the body:
Protective equipment against falls from height: harnesses and belts.
Protective clothing: (Fireproof cotton) against fire
Protective clothing against mechanical risks (perforations, courteous).
Protective clothing against chemical risks.
Protective clothing against contamination radioactive.
irritating dust protection clothing.
Clothing and accessories (bracelets, gloves) for signaling (retroreflective, fluorescent).
6. JOINT SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE IN THE WORK
With the object to promote and monitor your on-site health and safety program work, but company with 15 or more workers will form a Joint Health and Safety Committee in the Work and those that have a number less They will have a health and safety coordinator in the work, with functions similar to those of the Committee. The following should be clearly defined:
The number of people who make up the committee.
Members of the Committee
the procedures for action and recommendations
The functions and duties of the committee.
The meetings and the proceedings.
2 Number of people who make up the Committee.
The number of people on the committee will depend on the size of the venue. work and the different places where work tasks are carried out. At least two people must be chosen to represent the workers and the employer on the committee and the company You must have the services of a technician in prevention occupational risks or health and safety in the work , the adviser thereof.
El record constitutive to be used for the formation and record of the Health and Safety Committees in the Work will record official established by the Secretariat of State de Work and in /// of changes in committee members or restructuring thereof must be filled out again. record constitutive.
Committee Integration.
El requirement A fundamental requirement to be a member of the Committee is to be a member of the staff that works in the company y haber been appointed by the syndicate of workers, or in their default, chosen by the workers of the company. Employer representatives will be appointed by the administration of company.
Procedure of action and recommendations.
The Committee shall estar empowered to adopt decisions within its scope of competition and put them in Areas.
The committee shall hold regular meetings at least once a year. month and send copy by proceedings to Address General of Industrial Hygiene and Safety of the Secretariat of State de WorkAny member of the Committee may call emergency meetings when necessary.
All persons who form the Committee must to receive advance notice of any meetings to be held, with the corresponding agenda.
The Committee shall give Answer by written to workers who have raised health and safety concerns in the workplace. work.
The committee may carry out inspections at the site work without prior notice.
Committee members must be immediately notified of any accident, situation or disease related to the work, so that a can be carried out research as soon as possible.
The Committee must have access to the insights on safety and health that the employee.
6. 5 Functions and duties of the Joint Health and Safety Committee in the work.
6.5.1 Promote safety and health in the workplace work.
Participate in monitoring workplace conditions work, in official plant inspections, in accident investigations and in worker health care programs
Promote and provide training in health and safety in the workplace work
Facilitate agreements that allow and guarantee the establishment and promotion of the political health and safety in the workplace work;
Inform the employer of all the dangerous situations existing in the workplace. work that can to affect the Safety and Health of workers.
Respond and solve promptly respond to workers' complaints regarding safety and health in the workplace. work.
It will promote and supervise the fulfillment in the company of the provisions relating to health and safety in the work.
Will participate in the planning of all proposals related to working conditions that influence the safety and health of workers.
Inform about the measures planned or implemented Areas in place of work aimed at preserving and promoting health and safety in the work.
Motivate workers with relationship the importance of effective safety and health in the work
Collaborate in the Company and implementation of training programs on safety and health in the work.
7. WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS WORK.
Basic elements that a safety and health program should have work.
Number and Title of Element Years
1 2 3 4 5
1. Analysis of
Accidents/Incidents x
2. Personal communications xxx
3. Hiring and placement xxx
4. Health check xxxxx
5. Purchase controls x
6. Engineering Controls x
7. Job Training xxxxx
8. Training of the Administration xxxxx
9. Personal Protective Equipment xxxxx
10. Planned Inspections xxxxx
11. Research of accidents/incidents xxxxx
12. Leaderships and Administration xxxxx
13. Task Observations x
14. Emergency Preparedness xx
15. Procedures and Task Analysis xx
16. General Promotion x
17. Rules of the Company xxxxx
18. Meetings of group xx
19. Safety Outside the Work x
20. System Program Evaluation x
8. Criteria for location and performance of workers' work.
For the selection of workers and their placement The following general principles shall apply:
Before assigning inexperienced or illiterate workers to a work determined, they must be explained the dangers that this may entail. work and they should be taught to use without risk machines, equipment and tools, as well as to carry out that work in general with absolute certainty;
Preferably, workers should be assigned to jobs for which they are best qualified by their training, attitudes, experience and capacity physics.
It should not be used for any employee to tasks for which they do not have the qualifications capacity appropriate physical or mental.
Physically or mentally disabled workers or workers who suffer temporary fainting should not be employed in work that involves a risk particular for them or where they may constitute a serious danger to others.
9. First Aid.
It should haber one or more first aid kits in suitable places near the places of work.
First aid kits must contain appropriate materials to administer first aid to workers.
The contents of first aid kits must comply with relevant national regulations or standards.
First aid kits should be carry clearly written with the words “First Aid” or an appropriate symbol.
The contents of first aid kits must be replenished each time they have been used.
First aid kits should be estar under the responsibility of a person worthy of confidence. and qualified to administer first aid.
When the number of workers employed is one hundred or more, one or more first aid stations must be installed, carefully equipped and located in an easily accessible location, for the treatment of minor injuries and such DINING de rest for the seriously ill or injured.
First aid stations must estar under the responsibility of a person worthy of confidence. qualified to administer first aid, who must estar always ready to act quickly during business hours work.
First aid stations must estar under the control of a doctor.
It is the responsibility of the Secretary of State de Work control and mass surveillance of the provisions contained in this regulation, without damage of the powers that correspond to other health-related organizations.
II. PARTICULAR SAFETY AND HEALTH CONDITIONS IN THE WORK ACCORDING TO THE ACTIVITY.
MINES, QUARRIES, UNDERGROUND, DRILLING, PITS, BASEMENTS AND SILOS.
2.1.1 The employer will evaluate and adopt the measures prevention necessary to protect the safety and health of workers before starting work in mines, quarries, underground or confined spaces such as silos or wells.
When from these spaces there is risk In the event of a fall from a height greater than 2 metres, the entire perimeter will be protected with 90 cm high railings with skirting boards and intermediate protection.
Before workers enter a slurry pit, silage pit, wine fermentation vat, or any other confined space where manure may exist, risk of poisoning or fainting due to suffocation, should be adopt by the employer the following measures:
The place must be ventilated at any time. proceedings effective.
It should be find out the existence of a minimum of 16% oxygen.
The absence of substances in the environment that may cause harm will be verified. to affect the health of employee.
El employee that penetrates into saying space must carry wearing a seat belt crafts that can be hoisted to a place Safety en /// necessary.
En /// If necessary, personal protective equipment must be provided to protect the respiratory system.
Given the risk Smoking is prohibited in the event of an explosion in liquid manure pits, as is the control of the atmosphere by means of an open flame or flames in or near an open pit.
Fermentation rooms and cellars containing vats must have sufficient ventilation to allow continuous evacuation of carbon dioxide.
Procedure To enter confined places:
The objective of this proceedings is that the work to be carried out in confined places or areas is carried out with the less risk possible for the safety and health of employees or contractor in place of work.
This proceedings applies to all workers and contractors who have to perform any type de work, in a place of work confined.
The following personal protective equipment must be used: Goggles, boots, safety equipment, store of air or auto content, safety harnesses, helmet, or any other equipment recommended by the safety supervisor.
Offices
This subtitle establishes the minimum health and safety requirements for the use by workers of equipment that includes display screens or monitors.
A effects of this subtitle means:
Display Screen: An alphanumeric or graphical display, regardless of the methodology and de representation visual used.
Post work: consisting of equipment with a display screen provided, in its ///, from a keyboard or
device acquisition of data, of a program for the interconnection person/machine, office accessories and a english seat and table or surface of work, as well as the environment labor righ now.
Obligations general employers:
The employer shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the use by workers of equipment with display screens does not pose risks to their safety or health or, if this is not possible, to ensure that such risks are reduced to a minimum.
The employer must assess the risks to the safety and health of workers, taking into account: account en particular the possible risks for the view and physical and health problems load mental, as well as the possible effect added or combined thereof.
The evaluation will be carried out taking into consideration the characteristics of the position. work and the demands of the task, including, in particular, the following:
El tiempo average daily equipment utilization.
El tiempo maximum continuous attention to the screen required by the usual task.
The degree of attention required for the task.
If the assessment shows manifest that the use by workers of equipment with display screens involves or may involve a risk for their safety or health, the employer will adopt the necessary technical or organizational measures to eliminate or reduce the risk to the minimum possible. In particular, should reduce the duration maxim of the work continued on screen, organizing the daily activity of crafts that this task is alternated with others or establishing the necessary breaks when alternating tasks is not possible or is not enough to reduce the risk enough.
In collective agreements, the periodicity may be agreed, duration and conditions of Company of the changes in activity and breaks indicated herein Litigation, Arbitration.
The employer will guarantee the right of workers to a mass surveillance adequate health, taking into account account en particular the risks for the view and physical and health problems load mental, the possible effect added or combined thereof, and any accompanying pathology. Such mass surveillance must be offered to workers on the following occasions:
Before you start working with a display screen.
Subsequently, with a periodicity adjusted to the level de risk in the opinion of the doctor responsible.
When disorders appear that could be due to this type de work.
When the results of the mass surveillance of the health referred to in this document Litigation, Arbitration makes it necessary, the workers will have right to a recognition ophthalmological.
The employer shall provide workers free of charge with special corrective devices for the protection of the view suitable for work with the team in question, if the results of the mass surveillance of the health referred to in this subtitle demonstrate their necesidad and normal corrective devices cannot be used.
The employer must to guarantee that workers receive training and insights appropriate information on the risks arising from the use of equipment that includes display screens, as well as on safety measures prevention and protection to be adopted in application of this Litigation, Arbitration.
The employer must report to workers on all aspects related to safety and health in their workplace. work and on the measures taken pursuant to this subtitle.
The employer must to guarantee that each employee receive adequate training on the modalities of use of the equipment with display screens, before starting this type de work and every time that the Company from the position of work is significantly modified.
Technical Specifications:
2.2.12 .1 The use of the equipment itself must not be a source of risk for the workers.
2.2.12 .2 The characters on the screen shall estar carefully defined and configured of crafts clear, and of sufficient size, with adequate space between characters and lines.
2.2.12 .3 The screen image must be stable, without flashing, flickering or other forms of instability.
2.2.12 .4 The employee to do use of terminals with a screen must power Easily adjust the brightness and contrast between the characters and the fondo from the screen, and easily adapt them to the environmental conditions.
2.2.12 .5 The screen must be adjustable and tiltable. will, easily adaptable to the needs of the employee.
2.2.12 .6 A free-standing pedestal or adjustable table may be used for the screen.
2.2.12 .7 The screen must not have reflections or reverberations that may disturb the user. employee.
2.2.12 .8 The keyboard must be tiltable and independent of the screen to allow the user to employee adopt one stance comfortable that does not cause fatigue in the arms or hands.
2.2.12 .9 You will have to haber enough space in front of the keyboard so that the employee can support the arms and hands.
2.2.12 .10 The keyboard surface must be matte to avoid reflections.
.11 The provision The keyboard and key characteristics should tend to facilitate its use.
The symbols on the keys must be sufficiently prominent and legible from the normal typing position. work.
table or surface work They must be low-reflective, have sufficient dimensions and allow for placement Flexible screen, keyboard, documents and material accessory.
The document support must be stable and adjustable and must be placed in such a way way that uncomfortable movements of the cabeza and the eyes.
The space must be sufficient to allow workers a comfortable position.
2.2.12 .16 The english seat de work must be stable, providing the employee freedom of movement and providing it with a stance comfortable.
2.2.12 .17 Its height must be adjustable.
2.2.12 .18 The backrest must be reclining and its height adjustable.
.19 A footrest will be placed at provision of those who wish to do so.
Environment:
The position of work must be of sufficient size and estar conditioned in such a way that there is sufficient space to allow changes of stance and movements of work.
lighting:
General lighting and special lighting (lamps) work), when necessary, should to guarantee adequate lighting levels and adequate luminance ratios between the screen and its surroundings, taking into account account of the character of work, of the visual needs of the employee and the type screen used.
The conditioning of the place of work and the position of work, as well as the situation and technical characteristics of the sources of light artificial, must be coordinated in such a way as to avoid
glare and annoying reflections on the screen or other parts of the equipment.
Reflections and glare:
The posts of work must be installed in such a way crafts that the sources of light, such as windows and other openings, transparent or translucent partitions and light-colored equipment or partitions, do not cause direct glare or produce annoying reflections on the screen.
Windows must be equipped with a suitable and adjustable covering device to attenuate the light of the to date that illuminates the position of work.
Noise:
The noise produced by the equipment installed in the workstation work should be taken into account account when designing it, especially so that attention and speech are not disturbed.
Hot:
The equipment installed at the post work shall not produce additional heat that may cause discomfort to workers.
Emissions:
All radiation, exception made of the part visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, must be reduced to insignificant levels from the point of view of sight the protection of the safety and health of workers.
Humidity:
Acceptable humidity must be created and maintained.
Computer/Interconnectionperson
For the preparation, the election, the purchase and modification of programs, as well as for the definition of the tasks
that require display screens, the employer will take into account account the following factors:
The program will have to estar adapted to the task to be performed.
The program must be easy to use and must, in its ///, power adapt to level of knowledge and experience of employee; no quantitative or qualitative control device shall be used without workers being informed.
Systems must provide workers with guidance on their development.
Systems must display the insights in a format and at a pace adapted to workers.
Term adaptation of equipment that includes display screens:
Equipment that includes display screens placed at provision of workers in the company prior to the when and where of entry into force of this Litigation, Arbitration must comply with the requirements set out in this subtitle in a Plazo twelve (12) months from the entry into force of this Litigation, Arbitration.
BUILDINGS
The present chapter It shall apply to all construction activities, i.e. building works, public works and assembly and disassembly works, including any proceedings, operación or transport on construction sites, from the preparation of the works to the conclusion of the project.
Definitions:
The term construction encompasses:
Building, including excavations and construction, structural alterations, renovation, reparación, maintenance (including cleaning and painting work) and demolition of all type of buildings and structures;
Public works, including excavation and construction work, structural transformation, reparación, maintenance and demolition of, for example, airports, docks, ports, canals, reservoirs, works for protection against river and sea water and avalanches, roads and motorways, railways, bridges, tunnels, viaducts and works related to the benefit services, such as communications, drainage, sewage, and water and energy supplies;
The assembly and disassembly of buildings and structures based on prefabricated elements, as well as the manufacture of said elements on construction sites or in their immediate vicinity;
The expression works means any place where any of the works or operations described in section a) above are carried out;
The expression place of work designates all sites where workers must estar or those who have to go to cause of its work, and which are under the control of an employer within the meaning of section 2.3.2.5;
Expression employee designates any person used in construction;
The term employer means:
Any type of person physical or legal entity that employs one or more workers in a work, and
According to ///’s most emblematic landmarks, the contractor principal’s most emblematic landmarks, the contractor or the subcontractor;
Expression person competent authority designates the person en possession of appropriate qualifications, such as appropriate training and sufficient knowledge, experience and skills, to perform specific functions under safe conditions. authorities competent may define the appropriate criteria for the designation of such persons and to establish the obligations that should be assigned to them;
The term scaffolding means any temporary structure, whether fixed, suspended or mobile, and the components on which it rests, which serves as support for workers and materials or allows access to said structure, excluding lifting equipment as defined in section 2.3.2.8.
The term lifting apparatus refers to all devices, fixed or mobile, used to raise or lower people or loads;
Expression accessory Lifting refers to any mechanism or tackle by means of which a load can be secured. load to a lifting device, but not part member of the apparatus or of the load.
Before the start of construction the contractor principal all work will have the legal obligation of obtaining SET approval regarding the safety and health program for workers. The costs related to the development and execution of the health and safety program must be included in the construction budget.
Subcontracting companies must prepare a health and safety programme adapted to the risks to which their workers are exposed according to the contracted work.
The health and safety program must indicate the following:
Safety regulations applicable to construction;
The descriptive memory of the procedures;
Technical equipment and auxiliary means;
Corrective measures to avoid and/or reduce risks;
Sanitary services and common services;
Coordination measures with subcontracting companies or self-employed workers;
The plans, measurements and budget to implement the planned health and safety measures;
The approximate number of workers who will work on the construction;
La identification of company, from the establishment and the company insurance;
La when and where of program development;
The description of the construction and its construction stages with probable dates of execution (schedule);
General and specific risks, planned in stages;
The stages of construction as well as the health and safety measures to control the anticipated risks;
The signatures of the person responsible for construction and the person responsible for construction health and safety;
El contractor principal will submit to the SET for approval a safety and health program for each construction, for which it will complete the SS-01 form that appears in Annex I of this document. Litigation, Arbitration. The Secretariat of State de Work will have a Plazo which will not exceed 20 working days, counting from the when and where of reception by the SET, for give response on whether or not the construction health and safety program was approved.
The program will be at provision permanent Inspection of Work and the Health and Safety Technicians for the purposes of mass surveillance y fulfillment.
The Secretariat of State de Work will establish a visitation plan to verify the fulfillment of the safety and health programs in each work.
When verification visits are carried out, the Secretariat of State de Work will record the activity carried out, the observations and recommendations noted, as well as with respect to the fulfillment of those observations or recommendations.
When two or more employers carry out activities simultaneously in the same work:
The coordination of the prescribed health and safety measures as well as the responsibility to watch over the fulfillment The effectiveness of such measures will be the responsibility of the contractor principal or another person u body that exercises effective control or has the responsibility principal of the set of activities in the work;
When the contractor principal, or the person u body that exercises effective control or has the responsibility principal of work, is not present at the place of work must be attributed to a person or body competent present in the work la authority and the means necessary to ensure their name the coordination and implementation of the measures provided for in the literal 2.3.10.1;
Each employer will be responsible for applying the prescribed measures to the workers under his/her supervision. authority.
When employers or workers for account own carry out activities simultaneously in the same work they will have the legal obligation to cooperate in the application of the prescribed health and safety measures.
All work With more than 15 workers, a health and safety committee will be formed, and with less than 15 workers, a health and safety delegate will be appointed.
The workers have right de estar informed about any dangerous situation that may arise and the relevant measures to follow.
All employee must be trained in the task to be performed and informed of the risks involved.
The Contractors and Subcontractors respectively, will provide their workers with all those personal protection elements that are appropriate according to the work to be performed, taking care of their conservation and replacement de crafts that their effectiveness is ensured at all times.
Contractors and Subcontractors, respectively, shall adopt all appropriate precautions to protect persons in a work or in its immediate vicinity from all risks that may arise therefrom.
All employee autonomous or by account own is in the legal obligation de comply with the standards and safety programs proposed by the subcontractor, the contractor or principal representative of company, and comply with the use of the protective equipment collective and/or staff in /// that requires it.
The workers, before starting their labor They will have to examine the places of work and the equipment they are going to use, informing their employers or the authorities competent in any situation that involves a danger to safety and health.
Workers must have knowledge of all safety and health instructions regarding your work and observe them. They must participate and/or collaborate with the joint health and safety committee that is organized in the company or with the security delegate, in /// that there was one.
Technical specifications applicable to construction
stability and solidity
It should be ensured, way appropriate and Safety, stability of materials and equipment and, in general, of any element that in /// of displacement could to affect to the safety and health of workers.
Access to any surface that does not offer a resistance sufficient will only be authorized in /// that appropriate equipment or means are provided for the work is done safely.
Traffic routes and exits emergency
2. 3.20.2.1 In /// of danger, all places of work they should power evacuate quickly and in conditions of maxim safety for workers.
The number, distribution and dimensions of the roads and exits of emergency will depend on the use, of the equipment and the dimensions of the work, as well as the maximum number of people who can estar present in it.
The areas of work and transit must be kept free of all risks (nails, rivets and other sharp and cutting objects, in order to avoid accidents such as stepping on, rubbing or courteous with them, and those instruments that are indispensable estar in the open air they must estar protected by guards. Where necessary, covered passages shall be provided or access to dangerous areas shall be prevented.
The routes and exits of emergency, as well as the circulation routes and the doors that give access to them, must remain free of obstacles. way that can be used at any time, and must flow directly into area that does not represent a danger.
The employer must indicate, where necessary, safe means of access and exit in the work.
Ventilation
All construction must have appropriate ventilation, so that workers can carry out their work without risks to their health.
In painting and varnish application work, additives must be comply the ventilation regulations contained in the health and safety regulations in the work, a must be installed work complementary ventilation or provide appropriate personal protective equipment
Noxious dust, gases or fumes
Any activity that generates dust, gases or harmful emissions of any kind must have devices designed to prevent said emissions from contaminating the air or constituting a danger to the health of workers.
In all construction an adequate temperature must be maintained, crafts such that it does not affect the normal development of work and the health of workers.
For the lighting of the works, preference will be given to the light Diffused solar light, which penetrates through skylights and windows that lead to sufficiently illuminated areas.
Places such as hallways, stairs, outbuildings, interior spaces of buildings and any other place in the building through which a person may have to pass employee works must be illuminated with light artificial during the hours of work when the light natural is not enough.
Doors, Gates, Fences and Protective Walls.
Doors and gates that open upwards must be provided with a work safety measures that prevent them from getting off again.
The doors and gates located along the routes of the railways emergency they should estar appropriately signposted.
In the immediate vicinity of gates intended, above all, for the circulation of vehicles, there must be doors for the circulation of pedestrians, except in /// that him plunge is Safety for these. These doors must estar clearly and visibly marked, without obstacles that impede traffic.
Mechanical doors and gates must operate without risk de accident for the workers.
The fences and walls of protection of the area construction will have a minimum height of two meters in relationship al level of the land and will be of use required in all works, to avoid accident in the (as) workers (as) or passers-by.
The protection platform for falling materials must be at least 2,20 meters high. map and a supplement of 0,80 meters of extension with an inclination of approximately 45º, from its edges. In addition, it must estar located protecting areas of transit of people by the building in construction.
Docks and ramps load
Docks and ramps must estar built and maintained in perfect condition for use Safety.
Every ramp must estar fixed to the floors less and above without exceeding an inclination of 30 degrees. In /// If it is necessary to increase the degree of inclination of the ramps, appropriate safety measures must be adopted.
Ramps used for truck traffic must have a minimum width of 4 meters and estar fixed to the floor.
Safety signage
All construction must be signposted in order to:
Identify risk areas in construction.
Warn of the dangers of activation by accidental contact with moving parts of machinery and equipment.
Warn about the risk of falls.
Alert about the obligation of use of the specific protective equipment for each activity carried out,
Provide alerts on areas where materials are transported and circulated by cranes.
Identify access routes for equipment and vehicles to the construction site.
Identify places with toxic, corrosive, explosive, or generally dangerous substances.
First Aid
The employer will be responsible for to guarantee adequate means and appropriately trained personnel to provide first aid must be available at all times. Necessary arrangements must be made to to guarantee the evacuation of injured workers in /// of accidents or suddenly ill to power to dispense them the assistance necessary medical.
In every construction there must be first aid kits, carefully equipped and located in easily accessible places, for the treatment of minor injuries.
Information And training
Workers must be provided with sufficient and appropriate information:
insights about the risks to their safety and health that they may face estar exposed in the place of work;
instruction and training on the means available for prevent and to control and protect against such risks.
Health and accommodation facilities
In all work or a sufficient supply of drinking water must be available within a reasonable distance from it.
In all work or at a reasonable distance from it, and depending on the number of workers and the duration of the work, the following services must be provided and maintained:
sanitary and toilet facilities, equipped with running water in sufficient quantity, in proportion to the number of workers. The employer shall provide provision workers the necessary means to clean themselves, in cases where due to the nature of the work performed, such cleaning is necessary.
facilities for changing, storing and drying clothes.
facilities for workers to rest in their tiempo spirit.
places to eat and to take shelter during breaks in the work caused by weathering.
Separate sanitary and toilet facilities must be provided for male and female workers.
Fire protection
The employer must adopt all appropriate measures
to:
quickly and effectively extinguish any outbreak of fire;
ensure the rapid and safe evacuation of workers.
Sufficient and appropriate means shall be provided for storing flammable liquids, solids and gases.
About demolitions
2.3.30.1 When the demolition of a building or structure may pose risks to workers or to the public:
2.3.30.1.1 Appropriate precautions and methods and procedures shall be adopted, including those necessary for the evacuation of waste or residues, which may include, but are not limited to:
enunciative and of no way limiting the following measures to to guarantee:
2.3.30.1.1.1 to stability y resistance of the different parts of the structure during the proceedings demolition.
2.3.30.1.1.2. the isolation of the construction areas where they can be produce risks of falling or falling materials.
2.3.30.1.1.3 the disconnection and/or the withdrawal of the supply lines for electricity, water and gas, among others.
2.3.30.1.1.4. the adoption of the measures of prevention according to the stability of the buildings adjacent to the building being demolished, both before and during the operación indicated.
la removal of glass, galvanized iron sheets and sharp-cutting objects that constitute a risk for the safety and health of workers.
la placement devices to prevent falls into openings or gaps.
the isolation of demolition work and, if this is not possible, the protection of transit areas with resistant covers against falling objects.
2.3.30.2 demolition works shall be planned and carried out only under the supervision of a person competent.
During demolition work, it will be necessary to guarantee the safety of workers with respect to risk of falls both individually as a collective and with respect to the risk of projection of objects and materials.
When the demolition is manual and the distance between the boundary of the land and the building is less 3 metres, pedestrians will be protected by a protective fence of at least 2 metres in height. All materials to be removed will be moistened.
When demolition is carried out by traction, two cables will be used simultaneously in perfect state and capacity appropriate, delimiting the area security to avoid risk of accidents due to the effect “whiplash” in the event of a cable break.
When using a wrecking ball, a area safety around the point of impact of a minimum radius of one and a half times the height of the point of impact.
When using shovels or cranes, a sign must be posted. area safety regarding the limit of the route established for each team specifying the radius of action.
When demolition is done with explosives, all workers must be notified before starting the explosions and have control strict of the eviction prior to construction.
In all demolition it must be taken into account account the characteristics of the building and its surroundings.
Machines, ladders, scaffolding and platforms used during demolition will be guaranteed to be safe at all times. stability.
The location of the debris chutes will take into account: account the safety of people and in the /// If they are poured directly onto the ground, the movement of workers will be prevented. saying place for which perimeter protection will be used.
Openings or gaps for placing downpipes made in walls or floors will be protected against the risk of height drop and facing the risk from accidental falling objects.
When demolition work is interrupted, it is necessary to adopt measures to ensure the safety of workers against the risk of collapse or detachment.
Excavations, wells, embankments, underground works and tunnels.
Before starting a work of excavation or fundación, steer axle truck technique of the work will have in account in the area in which it is
The works will be carried out, the existence of galleries, pipelines, and the identification of dangerous pipes, which must be cut, moved or disconnected and if this is not possible, they must be protected in a way that offers safety. The risks of the soil will also be reviewed according to the existing regulations on the subject.
In all excavations, the safety of workers against the risk of burial, sliding, collapse or detachment, by means of shoring or bracing systems, as well as the stability of the slopes, building these with an inclination in accordance with the nature and conditions of the terrain, as well as with the crafts of carrying out the work.
The slopes of excavations close to public roads, pipelines, or in general to all structures that may be affected by the excavation, must be appropriately shored up.
Appropriate precautions should also be taken to prevent the dangers of falling people, earth, materials or objects, as well as the accidental intrusion of water into the excavation, work underground or tunnel.
In every excavation, well, gallery or tunnel, sufficient ventilation must be guaranteed in order to maintain an atmosphere suitable for breathing and to keep fumes, gases, vapours, dust or other impurities at levels that are not dangerous or harmful to health and are in accordance with the limits set by the legislation national.
Safe routes must be provided for entering and exiting any excavation, shaft, gallery or tunnel.
The necessary elements will be available to allow workers to reach safety in /// de fire, water intrusion, or falling materials.
Accumulations of earth, debris or materials and moving vehicles shall be kept away from excavations or suitable measures shall be taken, where appropriate. ///,
by building barriers to prevent them from falling into them or the land collapsing.
To prevent workers from risks arising from possible underground hazards, particularly the circulation of fluids or the existence of gas pockets, appropriate investigations are carried out in order to locate them.
2.3.43 Work at heights, including roofs.
Is considered work at heights, anything that is done at more than 2 meters above a height level lower and in places where there are no permanent platforms protected on all sides with railings and restraints to prevent falls.
Platforms, scaffolding and walkways, as well as uneven ground, gaps and openings on the floors of construction sites, which pose a risk to workers. risk from a fall of a height greater than 2 meters, they will be protected by railings or other work collective security protection equivalent. The railings will have a minimum height of 110 centimetres and will have a protective edge, a handrail and an intermediate protection that prevents the plunge or slippage of workers.
Work at height may only be carried out with the helps of protective equipment individually and using collective protection devices, such as railings, platforms or safety nets.
When working at heights, including on roofs, the necessary protective measures must be taken taking into account the height, inclination or possible character or state slippery surfaces, to prevent workers, tools, materials or objects from falling. Also, when it is necessary to work on or near fragile surfaces, preventive measures must be taken to prevent workers from inadvertently stepping on them or falling through them.
The use of elastic nets for protection of the risk Falling from a height must be carried out ensuring the following:
the absence of openings in the protective surface.
The minimum distance between the net and the possible point of fall will never be greater than 6 meters.
the good state of net conservation, replacing those that have tears in their mesh.
that there are no objects under the net against which the employee picked up during the downward vertical movement.
If by the nature of the work the use of protective equipment was not possible collective, safe means of access must be provided and seat belts with anchors or other means of protection must be used equivalent.
La stability and solidity of the supporting elements and the good state The means of protection must be verified prior to their use. use, after that crafts periodically and whenever its safety conditions may be affected by a modification, period of non-use or any other circumstance.
Stairs and scaffolding
A lack other secure means of access to positions work At high points, suitable, good quality ladders must be provided. These must be adequately secured to prevent any unintentional movement.
2.3.47.2. The stairs of the service Connections between two levels will be installed for angles greater than 20º and less than 60º. For connections less than 20º, ramps will be used and for those greater than 60º, stairs.
The temporary stairs will have the following characteristics:
Minimum width of the staircase and steps is 55 centimetres.
Both the width of the steps and the height of the riser will be constant throughout the entire length of the staircase.
All stairs from which there is risk from falling will be protected with railings on the sides.
Ladders will have the resistance and the support and fastening elements necessary so that its use in the required conditions does not entail a risk from falling, due to breakage or displacement of the same. In particular, stepladders will have safety elements that prevent their opening when used.
Wooden ladders will have single-rail stringers. piece and the steps will be carefully assembled and nailed. Ladders will not be used and, in particular, stairs of more than 5 meters in length, of which resistance there are no guarantees. Which gives prohibited use of improvised construction ladders.
Before using a ladder you must ensure its stability. The base of the ladder must be solidly supported. In the /// of simple stairs the part The upper part will be secured, if necessary, between floors on which they rest and when these do not allow stable support, it will be secured to the same by means of a clamp or other equivalent devices.
Simple ladders should be placed, as far as possible, at an angle of approximately 75 degrees to the horizontal. When used to access high places, their side rails should be extended at least 1 meter. metro above this.
Ascent, descent and work from stairs will be carried out facing the stairs. Work at a height of more than 3,5 metres, from the point of operación to the ground, which require movements or efforts that are dangerous for the stability of the employee, will only be carried out if a safety belt is used or other alternative protection measures are adopted. The transport and handling of loads by or from ladders weighing more than 25 kilos or when their dimensions may cause them to be damaged is prohibited. compromise the safety of employee.
Ladders may only be used by one person. person at once.
Ladders must be checked periodically. The use of painted wooden ladders is prohibited due to the difficulty involved in detecting possible defects.
When the work cannot be executed with complete safety from the ground or from the ground or from a part a building or other permanent structure, must be erected and maintained in good condition. state a scaffolding Safety and appropriate or resort to any other equally appropriate means Safety and adequate.
Scaffolding shall be properly designed, constructed and maintained so as to prevent accidental collapse or displacement.
When the scaffolding is made of wood, it must be of good structural quality and must be maintained in good condition. state and not present any dangerous defects. Likewise, the wood of the scaffolding must have an adequate thickness to avoid bending or buckling.
When the scaffolding is made of metal, it must have a resistance sufficient for the stress to which they will be subjected, with a minimum thickness of 5 cm.
The platforms of work, scaffold walkways and ladders shall be constructed, protected and used in accordance with crafts to prevent people from falling or being exposed to falling objects.
Any scaffolding platform with a fall risk greater than two (2) meters shall have fall protection. area of risks with railings with a minimum height of 90 cm, with an intermediate bar and also a skirting board of 10 cm minimum height around the entire periphery. The minimum width of the platform of these scaffolds with risks of falls greater than two (2) meters must be 60 cm.
Scaffolding located more than one metro and a half (1.50) in height must estar equipped with stairs. When there is a risk of materials falling outside, a net must be placed covering the railing. crafts that the scaffolding is closed around the perimeter.
Scaffolding structures must estar supported on footings or shims capable of resisting the stresses of the transmitted loads and being compatible with the resistance ground.
Scaffolding must be designed in accordance with the factor security equal to double the load maxim expected.
At the /// For suspended mechanical scaffolding, the braces must be made of steel cable or other material of equal resistance and durability. The ropes used for suspension must endure a load de break up No. less 5 times the load maxim de work to which they are subjected. The counterweight of the suspended scaffolding will be sufficient to weight which must be supported and may not consist of material from the work.
People working on scaffolds suspended at a height of more than two metres must have their safety belts attached to a safety rope whose upper end will be fixed to the construction, independently of the scaffold, provided that the workers are not protected against the risk from falling by any other means of collective protection.
Suspended scaffolding must be secured against unintentional movement.
Scaffolding lifting mechanisms must be operated by levers or cranks for raising and lowering them and safety devices or locks that prevent unwanted descent.
When scaffolding is constructed from metal tubes, it must withstand the loads provided for factor minimum safety of 2, all horizontal and vertical elements must estar properly joined together and the metal material must estar in good state.
Metal tube scaffolding must estar properly braced diagonally and at suitable intervals, in steer axle truck diagonal and transversal.
Scaffolding must estar located at a minimum distance of 5 meters from overhead power lines unless these lines are insulated.
Scaffolding must be inspected by a person competent:
before its implementation the service.
regular intervals thereafter.
after any modification, period of non-use, exposure in the open air, seismic shocks, or any other circumstance that could have to affect his resistance or its stability.
2.3.73 Metal or concrete structures, reinforcement, formwork and finishes.
The assembly of reinforcements and their elements, formwork, shoring and bracing must only be carried out under the supervision of a person competent.
Steel or concrete structures and their elements, formwork, heavy prefabricated parts or temporary supports and shoring may only be assembled or dismantled by competent persons.
Adequate precautions shall be taken to protect workers from the hazards arising from temporary fragility or instability of a structure.
Formwork, shoring and bracing must be estar designed, constructed and maintained in such a way as to sustain crafts secure all loads that can estar subjected.
From the movement of loads, lifting equipment and accessories
hoisted
All lifting equipment and everything accessory lifting equipment, including its constituent elements, fixings, anchors and supports, shall:
be of good design and construction, estar made with good quality materials and have the resistance appropriate for the use what they are used for;
installed and used correctly;
keep in good standing state of operation;
be examined and subjected to experiment by a person competent. The results of examinations and tests must be recorded;
be handled by workers who have received appropriate training.
No persons shall be raised, lowered or transported by any lifting apparatus unless it has been constructed and installed for this purpose, except in /// of an emergency situation in which a disaster must be avoided risk of serious injury or accident fatal, when the lifting device can be used with absolute safety.
The indication of the load must be visibly displayed on the lifts and lifting accessories. value of its load maxim.
Elevators and their accessories may not be used for purposes other than those for which they are intended.
Lifting and lowering loads should be done slowly, avoiding sudden starts and stops, and should be done vertically whenever possible.
Loads should never be carried above workers or allowed to remain in the lifting vertical of the machine. load.
Lifting equipment must not be left with loads suspended.
The cranes will have the following safety measures:
Cranes mounted outside must be installed taking into account account wind pressure factors.
Mobile cranes shall be equipped with sufficient stabilization systems.
Crane cabins located outdoors will be closed and provided with windows on all sides and their accesses will always be protected against the elements. risk of fall.
Cranes will be equipped with lighting and audible warning devices.
It is prohibited to load these devices with weights greater than the load maxim Useful, except in the tests of resistance which will always be done with total security guarantees and under the steer axle truck of a technician.
The elements that make up the lifting equipment will have a factor minimum security of 3 with respect to the load maxim nominal, which must be indicated.
El factor Cable safety will not be less a 6. The number of broken wires will be periodically inspected, discarding those cables in which their number exceeds 10% of the total, counted along two sections of the wiring, separated from each other by a distance less eight times its diameter.
Chains used for moving materials must have a factor minimum security 5 referring to the load nominal maxim and will be reviewed before being put into effect. the service.
Ropes for lifting or transporting loads will have a factor minimum security of 10.
Hooks used in lifting or transporting loads must estar equipped with latches or other safety devices to prevent loads from escaping.
Material storage
The stockpiling materials, equipment and tools work must be placed or stored in crafts to prevent its collapse, fall or overturning in accordance with the health and safety regulations in the work.
The materials used in construction must be arranged in such a way way that do not harm: the spirit transit of people, circulation of materials, entry of fire-fighting equipment, exits, or cause pushes on walls that are not designed for that purpose.
Toxic, corrosive, flammable or explosive materials must be stored in separate, appropriate, signposted premises with adequate ventilation and temperature. All work must pre-establish a area specific for storage of materials, saying place must be viable for their internal transport.
Transport vehicles and earthmoving and material handling machinery.
All vehicles and all earthmoving and material handling machinery must:
be of good design and construction taking into account account, as far as possible, the principles of ergonomics;
keep in good shape state; and with devices of alarm audible when starting and reversing.
be used correctly;
be handled by workers who have received adequate training.
In all works where earthmoving or material handling vehicles and machinery are used:
Safe and appropriate access routes must be provided for them;
traffic must be organized and controlled way ensuring that they are used safely.
Facilities, machines, equipment and tools manuals
Installations, machines and equipment, including tools manuals, whether or not motor-driven, shall:
be of good design and construction, given account, as far as possible, the principles of ergonomics;
keep in good standing state;
be used only for the work for which they were designed, unless a use for purposes other than those initially intended has been object of a complete evaluation by a person competent authority which has concluded that such use does not present any risks;
be handled by workers who have received appropriate training.
In appropriate cases, the manufacturer or employer shall provide adequate instructions for safe use in a crafts intelligible to users.
Pressure installations and equipment must be examined and subjected to experiment by a person competent, in the cases and times prescribed by the legislation national.
Facilities, machinery, equipment, tools manuals
The facilities, machines and equipment must meet the conditions indicated in the following points of this section.
Installations, machines and equipment, including tools manuals Electrical and/or mechanical equipment with or without motor, must:
Be carefully designed and built, taking into account account the principles of ergonomics.
Stay in good shape state operating and moving parts are guarded.
Use only for the jobs for which they were designed.
Be operated by workers who have received adequate training.
Installations and pressure equipment must comply with the provisions of their specific regulations.
Electricity
All electrical equipment and installations must be built, installed and maintained by a person competent, and used to crafts that all danger be prevented.
2.3.93.2. Before starting construction works and during their execution Appropriate measures shall be taken to ensure that there are no live electrical cables or appliances on or above the works and prevent All risk that its existence could entail for workers.
The laying and maintenance of cables and electrical appliances on construction sites must estar respond to criteria that prevent the idea from all danger
In installations that are normally energized, the following measures will be adopted:
2.3.93.4.1 Keep the active parts of the installation at a sufficient distance from people to avoid accidental contact.
Secure a separation according level voltage in relationship with the following table:
Voltage range (phase to phase) Minimum approach distance
Up to 300 V Avoid contact
About 300 to 750 V 1 foot (30,5 cm)
Over 750 to 2 KV 1 ft 6 in. (46 cm)
Over 2 KV to 15 KV 2 feet (61 cm)
Over 15 KV to 37 KV 3 feet (91 cm)
Over 37 KV to 87.5 KV 3 ft 6 in. (107 cm)
Over 87.5 KV to 121 KV 4 feet (122 cm)
Over 121 KV to 140 KV 4 ft 6 in. (137 cm)
Cover the active parts with appropriate insulation.
Place obstacles to prevent any accidental contact with the active parts of the installation.
Confine live parts in protective cabinets.
Use low voltages whenever the work allow it:
2000 volts High Voltage
Protect the installation using differential switches.
Protection against the risks of contact with equipment and installations that may accidentally become live shall be carried out using the following measures:
Separation of the circuits for using energy sources by means of transformers or converter groups,
keeping all the conductors of the use circuit isolated from ground, including the neutral.
Use of small voltages.
Simultaneous inaccessibility of conductive elements and masses.
Equipotential connections.
Double insulation of electrical equipment and machines.
Grounding of equipment associated with grounding devices court by intensity or tension of default.
Neutralization of masses associated with devices of court by intensity of default.
Avoid contact with water, flammable vapors, fuels and explosives.
Use appropriate personal protective equipment. level voltage or tension to be handled.
They will be used for power outlets, bases and plugs that, due to their design, make contact with live elements impossible.
The facilities existing before the start of the work they should estar located and clearly marked, indicating the level of existing voltage or tension.
When there are overhead power lines that may to affect to safety in the work It will be necessary to divert them outside the premises of the work or leave them without tension. If this is not possible, barriers or signs will be placed so that vehicles and workers stay away from them. /// of which vehicles of the work warning signs and height delimitation protection will be used if they have to travel under the power lines.
Explosives
Explosives should only be stored, transported, handled or used by a person competent authority, who must take the necessary measures to avoid any risk de lesión to workers and others.
In the storage, conservation, transportation, handling and use of explosives used in construction works, the following measures will be adopted: prevention necessary to avoid the risk explosion, for which the provisions of this regulation and the complementary provisions that govern the matter will be complied with.
Explosives storage premises will have indicative signs, as well as an indication of prohibition of smoking.
The premises must estar Built with non-combustible, waterproof, thermally and electrically insulating materials. experiment explosion. The premises must be provided with light natural enough.
The premises for the storage of explosives must not exceed the following maximum temperatures, unless the manufacturer stipulates, for safety reasons, a temperature less:
27ºC for nitrocellulose, nitromide and double-base chemical powder.
30ºC for picric acid and base chemical powder simple . 35ºC for mechanical powder.
40ºC for trotyl, ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel, ammonium picrate or other unspecified explosives.
The premises must have sufficient ventilation, they must estar equipped with a thermometer to control the internal temperature and lightning rods.
The different elements must be identified and stored in premises isolated from each other and from other buildings.
The areas around these premises must be kept spirit of obstacles and vegetation.
The minimum distance between explosives depots and inhabited buildings or roads will be governed by their corresponding regulations, as well as the transport and load and download.
Gas containers, cofferdams and compressed air.
Gas containers, cofferdams and compressed air boxes shall:
be of good construction, estar made of appropriate and solid materials and have a resistance enough;
estar provided with means that allow workers to reach safety in /// of irruption of water or materials.
Construction, the placement, modification or disassembly of a cofferdam or compressed air box must only be carried out under the direct supervision of a person competent.
All cofferdams and compressed air boxes shall be examined by a person competent, at prescribed intervals.
Gas and compressed air containers must estar carefully built, with appropriate and solid materials, with a resistance sufficient and provided with adequate equipment so that workers can reach safety in /// of irruption of water and materials.
The construction, assembly, transformation or disassembly of a compressed air and gas container must only be carried out by a qualified person. person qualified. They must also be inspected by a person competent at regular intervals.
Compressed Air Work
Work with compressed air must only be carried out under conditions that prevent the idea may be made by each
situation that can put you in risk the safety and health of employee.
Work with compressed air must only be carried out by workers whose fitness physics has been verified by an examination doctor, and in the presence of a person competent to oversee the development of operations.
Work above the water surface
When work is carried out above or in the immediate vicinity of a water surface, suitable arrangements must be made for:
prevent workers from falling into the
Water;
save any employee in danger of drowning.
provide safe and sufficient means of transport
About personal protective equipment
Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment
Where adequate protection against risks of accidents or damage to health, including those arising from occupational exposure, cannot be guaranteed by other means exposure In adverse conditions, the employer must provide and maintain, at no cost to workers, clothing and personal protective equipment appropriate to the types of work and risks, as seen here to list contained in Annex II hereto Litigation, Arbitration.
The employer must provide workers with adequate means to enable them to use of personal protective equipment and ensure its correct use.
Clothing and personal protective equipment must comply with the standards established by the authority competent authority account, as far as possible, the principles of ergonomics.
Workers will have the legal obligation to properly use and care for the clothing and personal protective equipment provided to them.
Health risks
` 2.3.103.1 When a employee I can estar exposed to any risk chemical, physical or biological to a degree that may be dangerous to your health, appropriate measures must be taken prevention to exposure.
La exposure referred to in paragraph 1 of this article should be prevented:
replacing hazardous substances with harmless or less hazardous substances, wherever possible; or
applying technical measures to the installation, machinery, equipment or processes; or
When it is not possible to apply sections 2.3.103.2.1 or 2.3.103.2.2 by using other effective measures, particular al use of clothing and personal protective equipment.
When workers must enter a area in which I can haber a toxic or noxious substance or whose atmosphere may be deficient in oxygen or flammable, appropriate measures must be taken to prevent All risk.
They must not be destroyed or otherwise disposed of. way waste materials on construction sites if this can be done harmful to health.
Information And training
Workers must be provided with sufficient and appropriate information:
Information about the risks to their safety and health that they may face estar exposed in the place of work;
Instruction and training on the means available for prevent and to control and protect against such risks.
III. INFRINGEMENTS AND PENALTIES
In accordance with the provisions contained in the Decree No.522-06 of when and where Seventeen (17) of the month October of year and we will announce two thousand six (2006) which establishes the Safety and Health Regulations in the Work, violations of this Litigation, Arbitration will be sanctioned as seen here as provided by the Book Eighth of the Code de Work.
ANNEX I FORM SS-01
APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM.
Identification from the employer:
Name o Reason Social: RNL:
Address: Phone:
Employees on staff
Identification of work:
Time expected from execution Subcontracting companies
Number of expected workers
Number of self-employed workers expected
Name of Safety and Health Services Provider who developed the safety and health program.
NOTE: : The health and safety program must be attached to this form in a original and three copies.
ANNEX II
RELATIONSHIP PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT THAT SHOULD BE USED IN THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE PROCESS CONSTRUCTIVE.
List non-exhaustive list of personal protective equipment. Protective equipment cabeza (skull protection) Protective helmets:
Construction work and, especially, activities on, under or near scaffolding and work stands. work located at height, formwork and formwork removal works, assembly and installation, placement scaffolding and demolition.
Work on metal bridges, high-rise metal buildings and structures, poles, towers, steel hydraulic works, blast furnace installations, steelworks, rolling mills, large containers, large diameter pipelines, boiler installations and power plants.
Works in pits, ditches, shafts and galleries. Earthworks and rock works.
Working with explosives.
Activities in elevators, lifting mechanisms, cranes and means of transport.
Protection of foot
a) Protective and safety footwear:
works of work thick, engineering civil and road construction.
Scaffolding work.
Demolition works of work gross.
Construction works involving concrete and prefabricated elements that include formwork and stripping.
Activities on construction sites or storage areas. Roofing works.
Work on metal bridges, high-rise metal buildings, poles, towers, elevators, hydraulic steel constructions, blast furnace installations, steelworks, rolling mills, large containers, large diameter pipelines, cranes, boiler installations and power plants.
b) Safety shoes with heels or solid soles and anti-perforation soles: Roofing works.
Eye or face protection
Protective glasses, screens or face shields:
Welding, grinding or polishing work and court. Drilling and chiseling work.
Size and treatment of stones.
Use of machines that raise chips when operating in the processing of materials that produce short chips.
Collection and fragmentation of glass and ceramics.
Handling or using acidic and alkaline products, disinfectants and corrosive detergents.
Electrical work under tension, in low tension. Protection of the trunk, arms and hands
Protective clothing and equipment: Arm and hand protection: gloves
Handling objects with sharp edges, unless machines with sharp edges are used. risk the glove getting caught.
Handling or using acidic and alkaline products. Working with risk electric.
Ear protection:
Handling of saws for court of ceramic and brick material.
Protective clothing for evil tiempo Outdoor work spirit tiempo rainy or cold.
Clothing and safety garments. Signage
Jobs that require garments to be seen tiempo.
Pressure devices of the body and fall protection equipment (safety harnesses, fall protection belts, various fall protection equipment and equipment with kinetic energy absorbing brakes)
Scaffolding work.
Assembly of prefabricated parts. Work on poles and towers.
Work in crane cabins located at height.
Work in the driver's cab of stevedores using forklifts. Work on high-altitude drilling rig sites. Work in wells and pipelines.
Clothing and skin protection
Handling with coatings; products or substances that may to affect to the skin or penetrate through it.
GIVEN: In Santo Domingo de Guzmán, District National, capital of Republic Dominican, today to date thirty (30) of the month January year and we will announce two thousand seven (2007), year and we will announce 162rd of the Independence and 143rd of the Restoration.
LIC. JOSE RAMON FADUL
SECRETARY OF STATUS DE WORK
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