Open AccessOccupational health and safety specialist in Croatian and Portuguese legislation
Author(s) -
Domagoj Šantek,
Sandra Debeljak,
Rui Isidoro
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zbornik veleučilišta u rijeci
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1849-1723
pISSN - 1848-1299
DOI - 10.31784/zvr.8.1.24
Subject(s) - legislation , directive , portuguese , occupational safety and health , croatian , business , european union , work (physics) , member state , member states , effective safety training , environmental health , occupational health nursing , political science , law , medicine , health care , health policy , engineering , computer science , international trade , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
The domain of occupational safety and health at work is put for regulation through directives by founding agreements. This means that the institutions of the European Union prescribe minimum standards of safety and health at work through directives and Member States need to accomplish goals that a particular directive pursues. At the same time, this means that each Member State can also set stricter standards than the ones prescribed through directives and for this reason some differences in regulations of individual Member States can be noticed. In this paper, authors focus on the role of occupational safety specialist and the manner in which the Republic of Croatia and the Portuguese Republic, in their legislation, prescribe obligations of the employer in terms of contracting the performance of occupational health and safety tasks with an occupational safety specialist or an external service. Authors furthermore examine required conditions which occupational safety specialist must meet to perform those tasks. Apart from outlining the Croatian and Portuguese legislation, authors also present and define fundamental similarities and differences in the regulations within this domain of security legislation.