ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

of December 5, 2011 No. 1457

About approval of Rules of obligatory periodic certification of production facilities under the terms of work

According to the subitem 24) of Article 15 of the Labor code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of May 15, 2007 the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan DECIDES:

1. Approve the enclosed Rules of obligatory periodic certification of production facilities under the terms of work.

2. This resolution becomes effective after ten calendar days from the date of the first official publication.

Approved by the Order of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan of December 5, 2011 No. 1457

Rules of obligatory periodic certification of production facilities under the terms of work

1. General provisions

1. These rules of obligatory periodic certification of production facilities under the terms of work (further - Rules) are developed according to the subitem 24) of Article 15 of the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of May 15, 2007 and determine procedure for certification of production facilities under the terms of work.

2. In these rules the following concepts are used:

1) certification of production facilities under the terms of work - activities for assessment of production facilities (shops, sites, workplaces, and also other, separate divisions of the organizations performing productive activity) for the purpose of determination of security status, harm, weight, intensity of the works performed on them, occupational health and determination of compliance of conditions of the production circle to standard rates in the field of safety and labor protection;

2) laboratories - the laboratories performing the activities connected with laboratory and tool researches of factors of the production circle and determination of compliance of conditions of the production circle to standard rates in the field of safety and labor protection;

3) production facilities - shops, sites, and other, separate production divisions of the organizations which are engaged in release and production of products, development, production and conversion of minerals, construction and other types of productive activity;

4) workplace - the place of permanent or temporary finding of the worker in case of accomplishment of labor obligations by it in the course of labor activity;

5) the specialized organizations for carrying out certification of production facilities - the organizations which are performing activities for carrying out certification of production facilities under the terms of work, having qualified personnel and incorporating laboratories on laboratory and tool researches of factors of the production circle and working conditions or having agreements with the organizations having such laboratories;

6) qualified personnel - the staff of the specialized organizations for carrying out certification of production facilities under the terms of work having the corresponding education or last rates of preparation and having the appropriate certificate;

7) the certificate - the document of the established sample issued by the relevant organizations of education to persons who completed course of training on safety issues and labor protections;

8) individual protection equipment - the means intended for protection of the worker against impact of harmful and (or) dangerous production factors including special clothes;

9) means of collective protection - the technical means intended for simultaneous protection of two and more working from impact harmful and (or) dangerous production factors;

10) injury prevention - compliance of production facilities to the safety requirements of work excluding injuring working in the conditions established by regulatory legal acts on labor protection;

11) weight of work - the characteristic of labor process reflecting preferential load of the musculoskeletal device and functional systems of organism (cardiovascular, respiratory and others), the activities providing it;

12) work safety conditions - compliance of labor process and the production circle to safety requirements and labor protections in case of accomplishment by the worker of labor obligations;

13) intensity of work - the characteristic of labor process reflecting load mainly of the central nervous system, sense organs, the emotional sphere of the worker;

14) safety regulations - the qualitative and quantitative indices characterizing conditions of production, production and labor process from the point of view of ensuring the organizational, technical, sanitary and hygienic, biological and other regulations, rules, procedures and criteria directed to preserving life and health of workers in the course of their labor activity.