Occupational Safety Law
Circular 06/2020/TT-BLDTBXH list of jobs with strict requirements on occupational safety and hygiene
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Circular 06/2020/TT-BLĐTBXH is a legal document signed by the Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs on August 20, 2020, and effective from October 5, 2020.
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MINISTRY OF LABOR – INVALIDS AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS ——————————————————- No.: 06/2020/TT-BLĐTBXH |
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM ————————————————————- Hanoi, August 20, 2020 |
CIRCULAR
Issuing the list of jobs with strict occupational safety and hygiene requirements
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Pursuant to Clause 6, Article 14 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene No. 84/2015/QH13 dated June 25, 2015;
Pursuant to Decree No. 14/2017/ND-CP dated February 17, 2017 of the Government on defining functions, duties, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs;
At the proposal of the Director of the Department of Occupational Safety;
The Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs promulgates this Circular on the issuance of the list of jobs with strict occupational safety and hygiene requirements.
Article 1. List of jobs with strict occupational safety and hygiene requirements in Circular 06/2020/TT-BLĐTBXH
- Issued together with this Circular is the list of jobs with strict occupational safety and hygiene requirements.
- This Circular applies to the subjects prescribed in Article 2 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene, except for Vietnamese workers working abroad under contract.
Article 2. Effectiveness of Circular 06/2020/TT-BLĐTBXH
- This Circular takes effect from October 5, 2020.
- Circular No. 13/2016/TT-BLĐTBXH dated June 16, 2016 of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs on issuing the list of jobs with strict occupational safety and hygiene requirements shall cease to be effective from the effective date of this Circular.
- During the implementation of this Circular, any difficulties should be reported to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs for study and resolution.
| Recipients:
– Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Ministers; – Office of the National Assembly; – Office of the President; – Office of the Government; – Central Offices and Party Committees; – Office of the General Secretary; – Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies; – Office of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption; – Supreme People’s Court; – Supreme People’s Procuracy; – State Audit; – Central agencies of mass organizations and associations; – People’s Councils and People’s Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities; – Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry; – Vietnam Cooperative Alliance; – Central Committee of Vietnam Farmers’ Union; – Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of provinces and centrally-run cities; – Economic groups and special-grade corporations; – Department for Legal Document Inspection (Ministry of Justice); – Government Gazette; Government Electronic Portal; – Information Center of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs; – Archive: Office, Department of Occupational Safety. |
ON BEHALF OF THE MINISTER Le Tan Dung (signed) |
LIST OF JOBS WITH STRICT OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE REQUIREMENTS
(Issued together with Circular No. 06/2020/TT-BLĐTBXH dated August 20, 2020 of the Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs)
| No. | LIST OF JOBS WITH STRICT OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HYGIENE REQUIREMENTS |
| 1 | Manufacturing, assembling, operating, maintaining, repairing, dismantling, inspecting, and testing occupational safety technical equipment; supervising machines, equipment listed in the List of Machines, Equipment, Materials, and Substances with strict occupational safety and hygiene requirements issued by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. |
| 2 | Directly producing, using, storing, transporting hazardous and toxic chemicals according to the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. |
| 3 | Testing, producing, using, storing, and transporting explosives and explosive accessories. |
| 4 | Operating, maintaining, repairing, dismantling, inspecting, and supervising machines and equipment including: pile drivers, dredgers, pumps; mortar pumps, mixers, sprayers; grinders, cutters, concrete roughening machines; multifunctional demolition machines; hand-held drills; concrete batching plants, crushing and screening plants; excavators, bulldozers, graders, rollers, compactors; operating dump trucks over 5 tons. |
| 5 | Directly assembling, operating, repairing, maintaining, and cleaning grinders, saws, milling machines, planers, lathes, bending, cutting, shearing, punching, stamping, chiseling, molding, feeding, discharging, crushing, grinding, mixing, rolling, centrifuging, drying, sieving, screening, pressing, calendering, stamping, coating, rolling, peeling, bagging; hydraulic jacks; polishing machines, sanding machines, conveyors, water guns, pneumatic guns; industrial printing machines. |
| 6 | Directly making molds, smelting, casting, cleaning, plating, metal surface treatment; metal processing; ore smelting, coke processing; working in cement rotary kilns, kilns, or refractory material chambers, lampworking; operating, repairing, inspecting, supervising, feeding, and discharging cremation kilns, calcining kilns, smelting furnaces. |
| 7 | Working at heights of 2 meters or more above the working surface, on mobile platforms, or in hazardous suspended areas. |
| 8 | Jobs on rivers, seas, water surfaces, offshore platforms, diving, diving supervision; manufacturing, assembling, operating, repairing, maintaining, and inspecting machines and equipment in ship holds or watercraft. |
| 9 | Jobs exposed to ionizing radiation, radioactive, or nuclear; operating machines for X-ray, irradiation, or nuclear radiation devices. |
| 10 | Jobs exposed to high-frequency electromagnetic fields from 3 KHz and above. |
| 11 | Forest planning survey; geological, topographic, marine, geophysical surveys; mineral and oil & gas exploration, exploitation, processing; manufacturing, using, operating, maintaining, and repairing facilities and equipment in mineral and oil & gas exploitation onshore and offshore. |
| 12 | Construction works including: supervising construction; surveying; construction, installation; repairing, renovating, relocating, restoring, demolishing; warranty and maintenance; operating and testing constructions. |
| 13 | Working in confined spaces or where toxic gases may occur such as tunnels, tanks, wells, sewers, and underground works; operating and maintaining pipelines; industrial cleaning, environmental sanitation, farm sanitation, wastewater and waste treatment, sewer unclogging. |
| 14 | Operating, maintaining, repairing, testing, and inspecting electrical equipment, power lines, and power plants; operating battery charging stations, repairing and maintaining batteries. |
| 15 | Metal welding and cutting. |
| 16 | Directly operating trains, trams; driving, repairing, and maintaining vehicles of all kinds. |
| 17 | Directly producing and processing construction materials, ceramics, glass, plastics. |
| 18 | Professional rescue and emergency services. |
| 19 | Directly producing and processing leather, feathers; dyeing; silk processing. |
| 20 | Directly cutting, sawing, and processing timber; industrial wood processing; regularly manually handling heavy loads of 30 kg or more. |
| 21 | Directly cooking and processing food in collective kitchens with 300 meals per day or more. |
| 22 | Medical examination and treatment; caring for people with disabilities or patients; pathology, forensic examination, microbiological testing; pharmaceutical sector jobs. |
| 23 | Testing and producing veterinary drugs; maintaining gene banks, microbial and parasite strains; disinfecting and sterilizing environments; food inspection and sterilization. |
| 24 | Directly slaughtering animals, caring for and raising large animals in production facilities; training dogs, dangerous animals, snakes, crocodiles; disposing of diseased animals. |
| 25 | Directly operating fuel, oil, LPG pumps; repairing tanks, receiving, wholesaling, and retailing fuel. |
| 26 | Directly processing rubber latex, resin. |
| 27 | Directly operating production and processing of beer, alcohol, beverages, tobacco, cooking oil, confectionery, milk. |
| 28 | Circus performers, animal circus; professional athletes, coaches in sports and physical training. |
| 29 | Working with computer screen equipment including air traffic control, remote operation and monitoring via screens. |
| 30 | Directly performing cremation or burial. |
| 31 | Special jobs in the military sector included in the list of heavy, toxic, hazardous and extremely heavy, toxic, hazardous jobs. |
| 32 | Directly operating motorized agricultural machines including threshers, harvesters, plows, mowers, pesticide sprayers, water pumps. |
Workers performing any of the jobs listed above belong to Group 3. They must receive occupational safety training specific to each job before starting work.
See also the service Group 3 occupational safety training
