When will the employees be equipped with personal protective equipment in Vietnam? What is the form for supplementing the list of personal protective equipment for employees in 2022?
- What are the conditions for provision of personal protective equipment in Vietnam?
- What is the necessary personal protective equipment in Vietnam?
- What are the principles for use of personal protective equipment in Vietnam?
- What is the form for supplementing the list of personal protective equipment for employees in Vietnam?
What are the conditions for provision of personal protective equipment in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 4 of Circular 04/2014/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating the conditions for provision of personal protective equipment as follows:
Employees who during their work are in contact with one of the following dangerous and harmful elements shall be provided with personal protective equipment:
- Contacting with disadvantageous physical elements;
- Contacting with harmful chemicals and dust;
- Contacting with harmful biological elements and disadvantageous working environment:
+ Harmful virus, bacteria (transmittal diseases), harmful insects;
+ Polluted dung, water, sewage;
+ Other harmful biological elements;
- Working with machinery, equipment, working tools, or in positions with high risks of occupational accidents; working in the height, in mines, low-oxygen places; working on water, in forest or working in other dangerous and harmful working conditions.
What is the necessary personal protective equipment in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 3 of Circular 04/2014/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating personal protective equipment for employees as follows:
- Personal protective equipment are necessary tools and means provided to employee during their work or performing their duties in order to protect bodies from impact of harmful, dangerous elements arising during their work, when dangerous, harmful elements are not be able to eliminated entirely by technological solutions, equipment, technical safety and labor hygiene measures at the working place.
- Personal protective equipment includes:
+ Head protective devices;
+ Eye and face protective devices;
+ Hearing protective devices;
+ Respiratory protective devices;
+ Hand and foot protective devices;
+ Body protective devices;
+ Protective devices preventing of falling from height;
+ Protective devices preventing of electric shock, electromagnetic field;
+ Protective devices preventing down;
+ Other devices ensuring occupational safety and health.
- Personal protective equipment provided for employees should be adequate to prevent effectively the effective of harmful, dangerous elements of working environment but convenient and easily for use and maintenance and should not create other harmful elements.
- Personal protective devices must satisfy the quality, specification in accordance with regulations, standards and other provisions of the State.
What are the principles for use of personal protective equipment in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 6 of Circular 04/2014/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating the principles for use of personal protective equipment as follows:
Principles for use of personal protective equipment
1. The employer shall instruct their employees how to smoothly use the adequate personal protective equipment and closely supervise their use.
2. As for the dedicated personnel protective devices that require technically high safety, the employer (or persons authorized for provision) shall check to ensure quality, standards of personal protective devices before distribution to the employee and periodically recheck personal protective equipment during use and make records into a logbook; not using equipment failing to satisfy technical requirements or expired.
3. Persons provided personal protective equipment must use that equipment in accordance with regulations during work. If employees violate regulations, depend on seriousness of violation, they must bear discipline in accordance with labor rules of their establishments or provisions of law.
4. employees shall not pay for personal protective equipment. In case personal protective equipment is lost, damaged, or expired, the employer shall provide a substitute. In case of the loss or break- down without legitimate reasons, a employee shall pay in accordance with labor rules of establishments. When personal protective equipment run out of life time for using or when the employee moves to other occupations, the employee shall return personal protective equipment to the employer if required but they must sign for handing over.
When will the employees be equipped with personal protective equipment in Vietnam? What is the form for supplementing the list of personal protective equipment for employees in 2022? (Image from the internet)
What is the form for supplementing the list of personal protective equipment for employees in Vietnam?
In cases where the occupations and jobs have not been issued by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs but consider that there are dangerous and toxic elements that do not ensure the health and safety of employees, the employer shall be equipped with personal protective equipment suitable for that job, and at the same time report to the local Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs or the governing ministry or branch using the form in Appendix 2 issued with this Circular. to request the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs to add to the list.
Pursuant to Appendix 2 issued together with Circular 04/2014/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating the form of proposal for supplementing the list of personal protective equipment as follows:
Download the form for supplementing the list of personal protective equipment for employees in Vietnam: here.
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