List of 1,830 arduous, hazardous and dangerous occupations and work in Vietnam

List of 1,830 arduous, hazardous and dangerous occupations and work in Vietnam (Internet image)

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1. List of 1,830 arduous, hazardous and dangerous occupations and works in Vietnam

The current list of arduous, hazardous and dangerous occupations and works is prescribed together with Circular 11/2020/TT-BLDTBXH, with 1,830 arduous, hazardous and dangerous occupations and works, including:

List of 1,830 arduous, hazardous and dangerous occupations and works

- Mining: 108 occupations/jobs;

- Mechanics, metallurgy: 180 occupations/jobs;

- Chemicals: 159 occupations/jobs;

- Transport: 100 occupations/jobs;

- Construction of traffic and warehouses and yards: 58 occupations/jobs;

- Electricity: 100 occupations/jobs;

- Communication, post and telecommunications: 39 occupations/jobs;

- Cement production: 39 occupations/jobs;

- Crockery, glass, plastic groceries, paper, wood: 52 occupations/jobs;

- Leather, footwear, textiles: 58 occupations/jobs;

- Agriculture and forestry (including cultivation, exploitation, processing of agricultural and forestry products, livestock and poultry processing): 118 occupations/jobs;

- Trade: 47 occupations/jobs;

- Radio and television: 18 occupations/jobs;

- National reserve: 05 occupations/jobs;

- Health and pharmacy: 66 occupations/jobs;

- Irrigation: 21 occupations/jobs;

- Core: 17 occupations/jobs;

- Geology: 24 occupations/jobs;

- Construction (construction): 12 occupations/jobs;

- Environmental sanitation: 27 occupations/jobs;

- Producing bricks, ceramics, porcelain, stone, sand, gravel, building glass, building materials: 46 occupations/jobs;

- Tobacco production: 32 occupations/jobs;

- Cadastral: 06 occupations/jobs;

- Hydrometeorology: 08 occupations/jobs;

- Science and technology: 57 occupations/jobs;

- Aviation: 55 occupations/jobs;

- Production and processing of table salt: 03 occupations/jobs;

- Physical education - sports, culture and information: 47 occupations/jobs;

- Invalids and society: 14 occupations/jobs;

- Confectionery, beer, wine, beverage: 23 occupations/jobs;

- Tourism: 08 occupations/jobs;

- Banking: 16 occupations/jobs;

- Paper production: 24 occupations/jobs;

- Fisheries: 38 occupations/jobs;

- Petroleum: 119 occupations/jobs;

- Food processing: 14 occupations/jobs;

- Education - training: 04 occupations/jobs;

- Customs: 09 occupations/jobs;

- Manufacture of automobiles and motorcycles: 23 occupations/jobs;

- Archive: 01 occupation/job;

- Environmental resources: 24 occupations/jobs;

- Rubber: 19 occupations/jobs.

Note: The employer shall provide adequate personal protective equipment and healthcare for employees who work heavy, harmful or dangerous occupations and extremely heavy, harmful or dangerous occupations as prescribed. (Clause 3, Article 22 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene 2015)

2. Health check-ups and treatment for occupational diseases applicable to employees in Vietnam

According to Article 21 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene 2015, the health check-ups and treatment for occupational diseases applicable to employees are as follows:

- 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.

- Beside regulations prescribed in Clause 1 of Article 21 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene 2015, the employer shall organize obstetric checks for female employees, and occupational disease checks for employees who work in conditions with hazards of occupational diseases.

- 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.

- The employer shall organize health check-ups or occupational disease check-ups for employees at health facilities meeting professional and technical conditions.

- 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.

- 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 Article 21 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene 2015 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.

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