Vietnam: Is the company required to organize training in occupational safety and hygiene for interns?
What are the regulations on the organization of training in occupational safety and hygiene in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 14 of the 2015 Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene in Vietnam on training in occupational safety and hygiene as follows:
- Managers in charge of occupational safety and hygiene, persons in charge of occupational safety and hygiene, health officers, occupational safety and hygiene officers in the business entities are required to participate in training in occupational safety and hygiene and they are issued certificates by institutions providing training in occupational safety and hygiene upon their examination pass.
If there is any change in policies, law or science and technology in terms of occupational safety and hygiene, they must be provided with training in new knowledge about occupational safety and hygiene.
- The employer shall provide training for employees who do work having strict safety and hygiene requirements and grant them safety cards before giving work assignment.
- The employees without labor contracts who do work having strict safety and hygiene requirements must be trained in occupational safety and hygiene and granted safety cards.
The State shall adopt policies on tuition support for employees prescribed in this Clause upon their participation in the training courses. Tuition fees, beneficiaries and time for support shall be prescribed by the Government depending on socio-economic development in each period.
- The employer shall self-provide training and take responsibility for quality of their training courses in occupational safety and hygiene for employees other than those prescribed in Clause 1, 2 and 3 of this Article, apprentices, and interns before they are recruited or assigned tasks, and the employer shall periodically provide retraining for them.
- The training in occupational safety and hygiene prescribed in this Article must be conformable with characteristics and nature of each business line, job position, and business scope without interrupting the business operation. According to their business entity condition, the employer shall provide separate training course in occupational safety and hygiene or combine training course in occupational safety and hygiene and training course in fire safety or other training courses as prescribed in specialized legislation.
Vietnam: Is the company required to organize training in occupational safety and hygiene for interns?
Is the company required to organize training in occupational safety and hygiene for interns?
According to the provisions of Clause 4, Article 14 of the 2015 Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene in Vietnam as follows:
Training in occupational safety and hygiene
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4. The employer shall self-provide training and take responsibility for quality of their training courses in occupational safety and hygiene for employees other than those prescribed in Clause 1, 2 and 3 of this Article, apprentices, and interns before they are recruited or assigned tasks, and the employer shall periodically provide retraining for them.
According to the above regulations, the employer shall self-provide training and take responsibility for quality of their training courses in occupational safety and hygiene for interns before they are recruited or assigned tasks, and the employer shall periodically provide retraining for them.
Does the company have to organize health check-ups applicable to employees in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 21 of the 2015 Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene in Vietnam on health check-ups and treatment for occupational diseases applicable to employees as follows:
Health check-ups and treatment for occupational diseases applicable to employees
1. Annually, an employer shall organize health check-ups at least once a year for employees; and health check-ups at least twice a year for employees doing heavy and harmful jobs and disabled, underage and elderly employees.
2. Beside regulations prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, the employer shall organize obstetric checks for female employees, and occupational disease checks for employees who work in conditions with hazards of occupational diseases.
3. Before an employee is assigned works or taken another work that is more heavy, harmful or dangerous, or after a victim recovers from occupational accident or occupational disease and returns to work, the employer shall have them went for health check-ups, unless they have undergone decreased work capacity examinations conducted by a Medical Examination Council.
4. The employer shall organize health check-ups or occupational disease check-ups for employees at health facilities meeting professional and technical conditions.
5. The employer shall send the employee who is diagnosed as an occupational disease to a health facility meeting professional and technical conditions according to the treatment regimen of occupational diseases prescribed by the Minister of Health.
6. Costs of health check-ups, occupational disease check-ups, and treatment for occupational diseases for employees paid by employers as prescribed in Clause 1, 2 3 and 5 of this Article shall be recorded to deductible expenses when determining their taxable income as prescribed in Law on enterprise income tax and recorded to regular operating expenses applicable to administrative units without service provision.
Thus, annually, an employer shall organize health check-ups at least once a year for employees.
At the same time, the employer shall organize health check-ups or occupational disease check-ups for employees at health facilities meeting professional and technical conditions.
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