Article 38. Ensuring transport safety

Transport safety requirements, methods of state control and supervision, public control of their compliance, as well as forms for assessing their compliance are established by regulatory legal acts and regulatory documents in the field of technical regulation.

The facilities on whose territory the production, storage, loading, transportation and unloading of dangerous goods are carried out must be removed from public places, structures, residential areas, protected natural areas and objects subject to special protection, at a distance that ensures their safe operation.

Re-equipment of communications associated with the reconstruction and repair of transport facilities located in the right of way of roads and railways is carried out at the expense of the owners and owners of such communications.

Protection and escort of dangerous and special cargoes are provided by senders or recipients of cargoes along the entire route. Owners of dangerous and special cargoes transported by transport, sending and receiving such cargoes, must guarantee the safety of their transportation, loading and unloading with the involvement of funds and mobile units necessary to eliminate emergency situations and the consequences of accidents in the event of their occurrence during the transportation of these cargoes.

Transport organizations and carriers are obliged to ensure the safety of transportation of dangerous and special cargoes and to take part in the elimination of the consequences of accidents in the event of their occurrence during the transportation of these cargoes.

Relations arising in the field of transportation of dangerous and special cargoes are regulated by law.

It is forbidden to design and build transport organizations on the areas where minerals occur, and to place underground structures in their places of occurrence. In exceptional cases, design and construction are allowed with the permission of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Geology and Mineral Resources.

Certain categories of transport workers, whose work is directly related to the movement of vehicles and ensuring their safety, are required to comply with the peculiarities of working hours, rest and other working conditions in the manner prescribed by law.

Transport organizations and carriers are obliged to organize preliminary and periodic medical examinations of employees whose work is related to the movement of vehicles and employed in jobs with especially harmful and especially difficult working conditions. The list of such workers and works, as well as the procedure for conducting medical examinations, are established by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan.