Article 212. Employer's Duties in Respect of Ensuring Labour Safety

The duties in respect of ensuring labor safety in the organization are imposed on the employer.

The employer must ensure the following:

employees' safety at exploiting buildings, edifices, equipment, instruments, raw produce and materials used in the production, and at executing technological processes;

employees' using means of individual and collective protection;

working conditions that meet labor safety requirements at every working place;

employees' schedule in accordance with the laws of Russian Federation and the laws of subjects of Russian Federation;

purchase at his own expense and distribution among employees working under harmful or dangerous conditions, doing work under specific temperature conditions, or doing work that inflicts contamination, of special working clothes, boots, and other means of individual protection, rinsing and neutralizing substances, according to the statutory norms; teaching employees' safe methods and ways of work and rendering first aid after industrial accidents; instructing employees on labor safety; organizing for employees practical study at workplace and examination of labor safety requirements and safe methods and ways of work knowledge;

non-admission to work of persons who have not undergone, in the statutory order, training and instruction on labor safety, and have not done practical study and examination of labor safety requirements knowledge;

control over labor conditions at working places and employees' correct usage of means of individual and collective protection;

attestation of working places in respect of labor conditions with following certification of labor safety measures taken in the organization;

organization at his own expense, in cases stated in this Code, of employees' compulsory preliminary (when hiring employees) and periodical (during employees' work time) medical examinations (surveys), as well as urgent medical examinations (surveys) upon employees' request and according to the medical comment, preserving employees' position and average earnings for the time of the aforenamed medical examinations (surveys); non-admission to work of employees' who have not undergone compulsory medical examinations (surveys), and/or in case there are any medical contraindications;

informing employees of labor conditions and labor safety at their working place, of any existing risk to their health, and of all compensations and means of individual protection they are eligible to receive;

providing state bodies of labor safety administration, state supervising and controlling bodies, trade unions bodies of control over labor law and labor safety abidance with information and documentation allowing them to exercise their powers;

taking measures of precaution against emergencies; preserving employees' life and health in emergency situations, including rendering first aid to the injured;

investigation and registration of industrial accidents and professional diseases as established in this Code and other normative legal acts;

providing sanitary and treatment-and-prophylactic services for employees in accordance with labor safety requirements;

unconstrained admission to the enterprise of state bodies of labor safety administration officers, state bodies of supervision and control over labor law and other normative legal acts containing labor law propositions abidance officers, Russian Federation Fund of Social Insurance bodies officers, and public controlling bodies representatives with a view to inspect the enterprise labor conditions and labor safety and to investigate industrial accidents and professional diseases;

complying with orders of state bodies of supervision and control over labor law and other normative legal acts containing labor law propositions abidance officers, and considering representations of public controlling bodies within time periods stated in this Code and in other federal laws;

employees' compulsory social insurance against industrial accidents and professional diseases;

informing employees of labor safety requirements;

working out and sanctioning labor safety instructions for employees, taking into account the opinion of elected trade union body or other employees authorized bodies;

presence of normative legal acts assembly containing labor safety requirements in accordance with the specific character of enterprise activity.