Latest changes in labor protection legislation 2020

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Are there any changes in labor protection legislation in 2020, what are the latest news in this area? We have compiled a selection of all the innovations.

Prevention - special attention

In the field of improving labor safety in 2020, the emphasis will be placed on the prevention of occupational injuries and the development of occupational diseases. This is necessary for the employees themselves and beneficial for the state and employers. Judge for yourself: reducing injuries at enterprises will reduce the costs of rehabilitation of injured citizens, which will also affect the economic potential of the country.

Employers are also interested in ensuring that everything is calm at work: there will be no downtime, special insurance rates that are paid for social insurance of employees against injuries will be reduced.

During 2020, it is planned that the Safe Labor subprogram will be fully implemented. It provides:

• complete elimination of workplaces with hazardous working conditions (class 4 working conditions);
• formation of a labor safety management system;
• timely diagnosis of workers with symptoms of occupational diseases;
• a special assessment of working conditions to determine the real conditions in which workers work.

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Working conditions

So, the most important changes will affect working conditions. If, according to the results of the special assessment, it turns out that the workers are working in dangerous conditions and the 4th grade is set, the employer will have to suspend the activity. Work can be resumed only after a plan to eliminate hazardous working conditions has been approved. After this, an additional, extraordinary check should be carried out.

Workers who have been employed in hazardous conditions need to be temporarily assigned another job and paid an average wage.

It is assumed that soon at all enterprises with 1 and 2 hazard classes will be installed remote monitoring systems for compliance with safety rules. The rest of the enterprises will be able to install systems at their discretion.

Special assessment in a new way

Changes in the legislation on labor protection in 2020 will affect the conduct of a special assessment, about the latest news - further. It will not be considered passed if the results are not uploaded to the FSIS. Employers will have to very carefully choose an expert organization that will conduct a special assessment.

It should not be forgotten that in the service agreement it is necessary to prescribe the need to receive a report on the uploading of data, and only after that pay for the service to specialists. The report must be assigned a unique number and a corresponding confirmation letter must be written. If it is an electronic document, then it must be accompanied by an electronic signature.

These changes in labor protection legislation entered into force on January 1, 2020 in Russia.

By the way, in 2020, the assessment of risks that can lead to injury to workers will become mandatory at the stage of commissioning production.

Innovations in the Labor Code

After the section in the Labor Code of Russia is updated, employers will be obliged to hire a labor protection specialist. This applies to enterprises employing more than a hundred people. If there are fewer employees, then the manager himself, an authorized employee of the enterprise, an entrepreneur or a company that provides such services can be in charge of labor protection in production.

About microtraumas

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The changes will also affect the investigation of industrial accidents. If in previous years only emergencies were considered that entailed the disability of an employee, now the Labor Code will also spell out such a concept as “microtrauma”. Employers will be required to take into account such injuries to employees and conduct an audit upon the fact of injury. And as soon as the code is amended, they will have to assess the risks in the workplace and prescribe in the OSH instructions what safety measures should be taken into account.

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About medical examination

The changes will affect the mandatory medical examinations of employees. Here are the most important things planned:

1. Cancel health passport.
2. Pass the doctors' opinion after the examination directly to the manager's hands, so that he is aware of the health of employees and knows if they have any contraindications to work. At the same time, employers will not have access to medical confidentiality.
3. Also, employers will have the opportunity to send an employee for an additional medical examination after he has been on sick leave for a long time.
4. The possibility of transferring a copy of the medical certificate to the social insurance fund is also being considered.

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About electronic documents

It is known that soon work books will become electronic, and sick leave certificates will be the same. Most likely, OSH documentation, including briefing logs, will also be kept in electronic form in the near future.

By the way, keeping the register of normative legal acts will also become mandatory. For this, an electronic database will be created so that all employees have access to it.