Article 12. Labour protection services of an organization

In every organization engaged in production activity with fifty or more employees, a labour protection service shall be established, or a position for a specialist with appropriate training in labour protection shall be introduced, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with labour protection requirements and exercising control over their fulfillment. An organization with fifty or more vehicles shall also establish a traffic safety service or introduce a traffic safety specialist position.

In an organization with fewer than fifty employees, the decision to establish a labour protection service or to introduce a labour protection specialist position shall be taken by the employer, taking into account the specific nature of the organizationʼs activity.

The labour protection service and the traffic safety service are independent structural subdivisions of the organization and report directly to the head of the organization.

Specialists of the labour protection service have the right to monitor compliance by all employees with labour protection rules and norms, to issue to the heads of structural subdivisions mandatory instructions to eliminate identified violations, and to submit to the head of the organization proposals on holding persons who violate technical regulation documents and regulatory legal acts on labour protection liable.

The functions of the labour protection service may be performed on a contractual basis by professional participants of the labour protection services market.