Article 9. Powers of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of labour protection

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall:

establish the procedure for compulsory medical examinations of employees, both preliminary (upon employment) and periodic (during labour activity);

set sanitary rules, norms and hygienic standards for indicators of harmfulness and hazard of factors of the production environment, and for the severity and intensity of the labour process;

establish norms for the provision to employees engaged in work under unfavourable working conditions of milk (or other equivalent foodstuffs), medicinal-preventive nutrition, and aerated saline water (for workers in hot shops);

approve the list of medical and other indications for transferring an employee to lighter work or to work that excludes exposure to unfavourable production factors;

set requirements for compiling a sanitary-hygienic description of an employeeʼs working conditions where an occupational disease is suspected;

establish the procedure for issuing referrals for the detection of occupational diseases and for determining the degree of loss of an employeeʼs professional working capacity.

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan may also exercise other powers in accordance with legislation.