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Regulations concerning Organisation, Management and Employee Participation
Chapter 8. Training

Regulations concerning Organisation, Management and Employee Participation

Section 1-1. Purpose

Section 1-2. Scope

Section 1-3. To whom the regulations apply

Section 1-4. Definitions

Section 1-5. Exemption

Section 1-6. (Repealed)

Section 2-1. Employee participation

Section 2-2. Duties and participation of safety representatives

Section 2-3. Duties of the working environment committee

Section 2-4. Consideration by the working environment committee of plans for building works etc.

Section 3-1. Division into safety areas

Section 3-2. Election of safety representatives

Section 3-3. Election of deputy for the safety representative

Section 3-4. Term of office for safety representatives

Section 3-5. Senior safety representative

Section 3-6. Election of deputy for the senior safety representative

Section 3-7. Working environment committee

Section 3-8. Right to vote in elections of members of the working environment committee

Section 3-9. Election of members of the working environment committee

Section 3-10. Election of members of the working environment committee in undertakings with several local trade unions

Section 3-11. Deputies for members of the working environment committee

Section 3-12. Chair of the working environment committee

Section 3-13. Matters that concern a group of employees not represented on the working environment committee

Section 3-14. Several working environment committees in the same undertaking

Section 3-15. Term of office for members of the working environment committee

Section 3-16. Rules of procedure for the working environment committee

Section 3-17. Duty of secrecy for safety representatives and members of the working environment committee

Section 3-18. Training of safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-19. Duration of the training of safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-20. Implementation of training of safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-21. The Labour Inspection Authority's right to instruct employers to provide training for safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-22. Undertakings that have other collaborative bodies

Section 3-23. Special groups

Section 4-1. Election of safety representatives and working environment committees at company quays and in ports

Section 4-2. Election of safety representatives for stevedores

Section 4-3. Election of working environment committees for stevedores

Section 4-4. The duties, obligations and rights of the safety representative and the working environment committee

Section 4-5. The employer's right to state his or her opinion

Section 4-6. The employer's right to submit the working environment committee's decision to the Labour Inspection Authority

Section 4-7. Expenses relating to the safety representatives and the working environment committees' activities

Section 5-1. Scope

Section 5-2. The authority and duties of regional safety representatives

Section 5-3. Regional safety representatives' right to information

Section 5-4. Duty of secrecy

Section 5-5. Competence requirements

Section 6-1. Scope

Section 6-2. Qualifications etc.

Section 6-3. The authority and duties of regional safety representatives

Section 6-4. Right to information

Section 6-5. Duty of secrecy

Section 7-1. General requirements for mapping and risk assessments

Section 7-2. Measurement as the basis for risk assessment

Section 7-3. Additional requirements for risk assessments:

Section 8-1. General requirements for training

Section 8-2. Qualification and additional requirements for training

Section 9-1. General requirements for information to employees

Section 9-2. Additional requirements for information to employees

Section 10-1. Planning and facilitation of the work

Section 10-2. Prevention of injuries relating to ergonomically strenuous work

Section 10-3. Requirements for the choice of work equipment

Section 10-4. Requirements for systematic inspection and maintenance

Section 10-5. Requirements for safety signage and signalling

Section 10-6. Requirements for warning and communication devices

Section 10-7. Requirements for software and computer systems

Section 10-8. Variation and rest

Section 11-1. General requirements for work instructions for work execution and use of work equipment

Section 11-2. Additional requirements for work instructions

Section 12-1. Risk assessments and specially adapted measures for employees under the age of 18

Section 12-2. Right to use children aged 13 for work

Section 12-3. Right to employ children in cultural work or similar

Section 12-4. Consent of parents or guardians

Section 12-5. Limitations on work to be performed by children and young people

Section 12-6. Prohibition on work that can entail a particular risk of harm to health

Section 12-7. Exemption from the prohibition on work for vocational training

Section 12-7A. Exemption from Section 11-2 third paragraph and Section 11-5 third paragraph relating to vocational training in building and construction

Section 12-8. Right to use children for cultural, artistic or sports-related work

Section 12-9. Conditions for using young people for night work

Section 12-10. Requirement for information

Section 12-11. Requirement for the participation of the safety representative for employees aged under 18

Section 12-12. Requirement that a list be kept of young employees

Section 13-1. The undertaking's duty to be affiliated with an occupational health service

Section 13-2. The employer's use of the occupational health service

Section 13-3. Plans, annual reports and other reports

Section 14-1. Requirement for health surveillance

Section 14-2. Registration and notification of work accidents and occupational diseases

Section 14-3. Medical practitioners' duty of notification in building and construction undertakings

Section 14-4. Examination of employees' eyesight in connection with work at computer screens

Section 14-5. The employer's follow-up of the medical examinations

Section 14-6. Requirement for medical practitioners' competence

Section 14-7. The employer's coverage of expenses for medical examinations

Section 15-1. General requirements for the use of personal protective equipment

Section 15-2. Additional requirements for personal protective equipment

Section 15-3. Requirements for personal protective equipment

Section 15-4. Requirements for maintenance and inspection of personal protective equipment

Section 15-5. Requirement for information about personal protective equipment

Section 16-1. Penal sanctions

Section 16-2. Fine for violations

Section 16-3. Entry into force

Chapter 8. Training

Section 8-1. General requirements for training Section 8-2. Qualification and additional requirements for training

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