Application of the Occupational Risk Prevention Act
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:41 am
For its part, the Law on the Prevention of Occupational Risks 31/1995 and the other regulations on the prevention of occupational risks generate a large regulatory framework; a broad, extensive regulatory framework that regulates a multitude of complex and diverse situations.
The application of this standard and those that develop it has generated and currently generates significant and numerous conflicts of interest, which often lead to penalties and sanctions.
These conflicts will be resolved, depending on their type, before the labor administration and/or before the Courts and Tribunals.
We must not forget that employers uganda phone data have the duty to protect their workers from occupational risks and to guarantee their health and safety in all aspects related to their work, both through the integration of preventive activity in the company and by adopting as many measures as necessary to do so.
occupational risk prevention
Thus, the employer must apply the measures that comprise the general duty of prevention following the following general principles:
You should always try to avoid risks as much as possible.
Those risks that are impossible to avoid must always be evaluated beforehand.
Risks must be addressed at their source.
The work to be performed must always be adapted to the person who must perform it, in particular with regard to the design of the work stations, as well as with regard to the choice of equipment and the determination of the specific work methods and production methods. All of this with the aim of minimising monotonous and repetitive work, always with a view to reducing the possible harmful effects of this work on health.
The evolution of technique is an aspect that must always be taken into account.
To the extent possible, you should replace what could be dangerous with what is safe.
The application of this standard and those that develop it has generated and currently generates significant and numerous conflicts of interest, which often lead to penalties and sanctions.
These conflicts will be resolved, depending on their type, before the labor administration and/or before the Courts and Tribunals.
We must not forget that employers uganda phone data have the duty to protect their workers from occupational risks and to guarantee their health and safety in all aspects related to their work, both through the integration of preventive activity in the company and by adopting as many measures as necessary to do so.
occupational risk prevention
Thus, the employer must apply the measures that comprise the general duty of prevention following the following general principles:
You should always try to avoid risks as much as possible.
Those risks that are impossible to avoid must always be evaluated beforehand.
Risks must be addressed at their source.
The work to be performed must always be adapted to the person who must perform it, in particular with regard to the design of the work stations, as well as with regard to the choice of equipment and the determination of the specific work methods and production methods. All of this with the aim of minimising monotonous and repetitive work, always with a view to reducing the possible harmful effects of this work on health.
The evolution of technique is an aspect that must always be taken into account.
To the extent possible, you should replace what could be dangerous with what is safe.