Article 33. Rights in the field of labor protection

Trade unions and their associations have the right to participate in the formation of State programs on labor protection issues.

In the field of labor protection, trade unions, their associations, subdivisions, and primary trade union organizations have the right to:

obtain information from the heads and other officials of organizations on working conditions and labor protection, as well as on all industrial accidents and occupational diseases;

participate in the investigation of industrial accidents and occupational diseases;

submit proposals to the employer on suspending work in cases of threat to the life and health of workers, as well as on eliminating violations of labor protection requirements;

study the state of labor protection, monitor the fulfillment of labor protection obligations of employers stipulated in collective agreements and arrangements;

participate in the safety expertise of working conditions at designed, constructed, reconstructed, and operated production facilities, as well as in the safety expertise of designed and used production means;

participate as independent experts in the work of commissions for testing and commissioning production facilities and production means;

participate in the meetings of the medical and social expert commission;

participate in the development of draft normative documents in the field of technical regulation and normative legal acts on labor protection issues;

appeal to the relevant bodies with demands to hold accountable persons guilty of violating labor protection requirements and concealing facts of industrial accidents;

apply to the court to protect the worker's right to compensation for damage caused by injury or other harm to health related to the performance of the worker's labor duties, and in other cases where the rights of workers to health protection and labor protection have been infringed upon.