Who are members of emergency response teams under the law in Vietnam?

Who are members of emergency response teams under the law in Vietnam? (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. Who are members of emergency response teams under the law in Vietnam? 

The emergency response team includes:

- Employees who are assigned to work in the emergency response team by their employer shall:

+ Meet health requirements and voluntarily join emergency response teams;

+ Be able to promptly present at accident scenes in working time

+ Complete training courses in first aid and emergency treatment prescribed in Article 9 hereof.

- Medical officers at the business establishment

(Clause 1, Article 7, Circular 19/2016/TT-BYT)

2. Regulations on organization of emergency response teams in Vietnam

Specifically, Clauses 2, 3 and 4, Article 7 of Circular 19/2016/TT-BYT stipulates organization of emergency response teams in Vietnam as follows:

- Business establishments involving majors that require a strict application of occupational health and safety, employers shall recruit and allocate personnel to join emergency response team as follows:

+ Where there are under 100 employees, at least one of them shall be assigned to participate in emergency response team;

+ One more employee shall be assigned to participate in emergency response team for every additional 100 employees.

- For other establishments, employers shall recruit and allocate personnel to join emergency response team as follows:

+ Where there are under 200 employees, at least one of them shall be assigned to participate in emergency response team;

+ One more employee shall be assigned to participate in emergency response team for every additional 150 employees.

Note: There shall be staff in charge of emergency response available for every flexible shift or workgroup.

4. Regulations on emergency first aid training in Vietnam

According to Article 9 of Circular 19/2016/TT-BYT, regulations on emergency first aid training in Vietnam are as follows:

- Entities that are provided emergency first aid training are as follows:

+ Employees, except for those obtaining the certificate of completion of occupational health and safety training;

+ Individuals assigned to participate in emergency response teams.

- Start date and duration of the training course, curricula and provision of annual extra training courses shall be conformable to Annex 6 attached hereto.

- Trainers shall sign logbooks made using Annex 7 attached to Circular 19/2016/TT-BYT. In case an employee obtains the certificate of completion of occupational health and safety training course, the signature to the logbook is not required but a copy of the certificated shall be stored.

Ho Quoc Tuan

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