Occupational safety and health is defined as the discipline which deals with the prevention of injuries and diseases caused by working conditions, and the protection and promotion of the workers' health. The occupational safety and health aims to improve working conditions and environment as well as occupational health including promotion and maintenance of the physical, mental and social wellbeing of workers at any workplace.
Occupational safety and health is defined as the discipline which deals with the prevention of injuries and diseases caused by working conditions, and the protection and promotion of the workers' health. The occupational safety and health aims to improve working conditions and environment as well as occupational health including promotion and maintenance of the physical, mental and social wellbeing of workers at any workplace.
• Ley núm. 1562 de 11 de Julio de 2012 por la cual se modifica el sistema de riesgos laborales y se dictan otras disposicion e materia de salud ocupacional. - Art.1 definition
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The employer is under the obligation to grant the worker two breaks of thirty (30) minutes each one duing the working day to nurse her child, without deduction in pay, during the first six (6) months following the birth.
• Código sustantivo de Trabajo - S24 (1)(A) and (B) of the OHSA and Reg 9 of the General Administrative Regulations GN R929 in GG 25129 of 25 June 2003.
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The OSH legislation does not contain a definition of worker. However with regard to the scope of application of the Labour Code the Code says that it applies to the entire territory of the Republic for all residents, regardless of their nationality.
Remarks: The same scope of application may be applied to the OSH legislation as it is a concrete branch of labour law.
• Código sustantivo de Trabajo - Art. 2