OHS documentation must be maintained by the employer to ensure the requirements set out in the legislation of the Slovak Republic. The documentation shall include basic directives, internal regulations, procedures of measures, OSH principles, lists, records and risk assessments. The basic content of the documentation is binding for every employer. It dependson the number of employees and the size of the organisation.
Entrepreneurs who are not obliged to keep OSH documentation are
- Managing directors of a limited company – but only if they do not employ themselves or any other employee within the limited company
- Sole traders who have no employees
The content of the documentation is binding on all employees. The employer must make it known to all its employees. In addition, display it in a place where it is publicly accessible to the employees.
The OHS documentation shall be drawn up by the safety engineer and the employer shall, in cooperation with the safety engineer, ensure that it is regularly updated once a year, where appropriate, when new measures and organisational changes are made or introduced which may affect the safety and health at work of the employees. The employer must also ensure that it is complied with in practice.
If you ignore the legal obligations of OSH, you may face unpleasantly high fines. So consider carefully whether it really makes sense to ignore these obligations.
