ADMINISTRATION OF THE LENINGRAD REGION COMMITTEE FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE LENINGRAD REGION STATUS OF WORKING CONDITIONS AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE LENINGRAD REGION REGIONAL PROFILE The Status of Working Conditions and Occupational Safety and Health in the Leningrad Region: regional profile. – Saint Petersburg. – 2008. – 156 pages. Project Manager ROZHKOV V.D. – Chairperson of the Committee for Labour and Employment of the Leningrad Region Responsible Executive BRITSUN А.V. – Deputy Chair of the Committee for Labour and Employment of the Leningrad Region – Chief Expert on Working Conditions of the Leningrad Region The regional Profile on occupational safety and health (OSH) has been prepared in cooperation with the Committee for Labour and Employment of the Leningrad Region and Subregional Office of International Labour Organization for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, pursuant to the «Outline for Compilation of OSN National Profile», with involvement of the «Institute for Industrial, Occupational Safety and Health and Social Partnership» and the Interregional Association «Federation of Trade Unions of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region». The regional Profile provides information on the applicable Laws, state policies and formation thereof in the field of occupational safety and health, patterns and enterprises of social partnership, activities of various bodies and organizations in the field of occupational safety and health, statistical data and indicators of the status of occupational safety and health, general demographic data, problems and implications encountered, as well as substantiates further enhanced development of occupational safety and health oriented activities in the Region of concern. 2 INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 8 1. NORMATIVE AND REGULATORY BASIS FOR THE SYSTEM OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ................................................ 10 1.1. Provisions of the Charter of the Leningrad Region in the field of working conditions and occupational safety and health. ..................... 10 1.2. Basic regional Laws in the field of occupational safety and health .... 10 1.3. Basic regional legal and normative (by laws) Acts in the field of occupational safety and health. ............................................ 10 1.4. Internatioanl agreements signed by the Region and containing occupational safety and health requirements and demands .................... 11 1.5. Other regional Laws and by Laws relevant to the issues of occupational safety and health requirements and demands and support thereof ............. 11 2. MECHANISMS OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGIONAL POLICY .. 12 2.1. Basic trends in implementation of the state policy in the field of occupational safety and health in the Region of concern .................... 12 2.2. Mechanisms of regional law making and norm development procedures ..... 13 2.3. Agencies and bodies of state oversight and control over labour regulating laws and other normative and legal acts containing norms being part of occupational regulating legislation ................................ 14 2.4. Development of regional programmes in occupational safety and health .. 14 2.5. Economic methods of providing incentives for employers in the field of occupational safety and health ............................................. 16 2.6. Forms of public stimulation and experience sharing in the field of occupational safety and health ............................................. 16 3. MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AND COORDINATION OF ACTIVITIES 18 3.1. Regional level ........................................................ 20 3.2. Territorial (municipal) level. ........................................ 21 3.3. Corporate /employers level ............................................ 21 3.4. Public control and oversight .......................................... 23 3.5. Dynamics of social partnership evolution .............................. 24 3.6. Activities of Leningrad regional tripartite commission for settlement of social and labour relations (hereinafter - LOTK) ........................ 31 4. ORGANIZATION OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH SYSTEM: MEANS AND BODIES ........................................................... 31 4.1. Relevant state bodies and agencies whose responsibilities and duties include issues pertaining to occupational safety and health ................ 32 4.1.1. Regional bodies of control ......................................................................................... 32 4.1.2. Territorial (regional) departments of federal bodies responsible for oversight and control over labour regulating legislation and enforcement thereof .................................. 34 4.1.3. Regional departments of social insurance bodies involved in cases of occupatinal accidents and diseases ......................................................................................................... 37 4.1.4. Territorial (regional) departments of federal bodies responsible for oversight and control over public health, industrial and transport safety and other ................................ 38 3 4.1.5. Rospotrebnadzor territorial administration activities. .............................................. 38 4.1.6. Activities of committee for state construction oversight and state expertise assesssment in leningrad region .......................................................................................... 44 4.1.7. Activities of state fire safety chief office of the Russian Federation Ministry for civil defence, emergency and liquidation of effects thereof (hereinafter – MCS) in the Leningrad Region ................................................................................................................ 47 4.1.8. Activities of Road Traffic Safety Administration of Internal Affairs Chief Office in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region ............................................................................. 47 4.1.9. Activities of Interregional Territorial Administration for Technological and Ecological Oversight of Federal Administration for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Oversight in North west federal region ............................................................................... 49 4.2. AUTHORITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES (MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIONS) IN THE REGION RESPONSIBLE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ..................................................................... 52 4.3. Regional scientific and research and design enterprises (institutes, centers, laboratories), involved in the field of occupational safety and health ..................................................................... 54 4.3.1. State scientific and research and design enterprises (institutes, centers, laboratories), involved in the field of occupational safety and health on the territory of the region ................................................................................................................................... 54 4.3.2. Non- state scientific and research and design enterprises (institutes, centers, laboratories), involved in the field of occupational safety, and health on the territory of the region ................................................................................................................................... 55 4.3.3. Centers for occupational safety (occupational health agencies), rendering medical services in the field of occupational safety and health on the territory of the region ......... 55 4.3.4. Centers for occupational pathology .......................................................................... 55 5. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, RETRAINING AND QUALIFICATION UPGRADE IN THE FIELD OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ...................... 62 5.1. Programmes of higher professional and post graduate education ......... 62 5.2. Programmes of additional VOCATIONAL training implemented by educational establishments ................................................. 63 5.3. Training provided for by employers and employees associations ......... 63 5.4. Training for employees provided for by employers ...................... 65 5.5. Instruction on occupational safety and health ......................... 67 5.6. Employees’ special training ........................................... 69 5.7. Special training for managers and experts ............................. 70 5.8. Verification of knowledge and expertise in occupational safety and health requirements ........................................................ 72 5.9. Agencies involved in information and explanatory oriented activities .. 74 6. SPECIAL PURPOSE SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS INVOLVED IN VARIOUS OSH RELATED ISSUES ........................... 77 6.1. Bodies and agencies involved in standartization issues ................ 77 6.2. Bodies and agencies involved in insurance issues ...................... 77 6.3. Bodies and agencies involved in procedures of risk assessment and identification of hazards .................................................. 77 4 6.4. Bodies and agencies involved in rescue operations in emergency situations ................................................................. 79 7. EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ISSUES ... 82 7.1. Officers of territorial departments of state bodies and agencies responsible for working conditions and OSh ................................. 82 7.2. Officers of state regional bodies