Workplace safety

Protecting employees and minimising dangers: Do you need information about special regulations concerning working hours? Does your business work with hazardous substances or facilities? From special permissions to health certification, here you will find an overview of administrative information and services concerning occupational safety and health.

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Apply for a declaration of no objection in the area of basic substances
If you require a certificate for submission to customs or an authority in a third country for the import of raw materials or mixtures containing raw materials or natural products, you can apply for a declaration of no objection.
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Apply for a permit to carry out fumigation
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Apply for access authorization for security areas of the airport
If you want to work in security areas at an airport, you need access authorization (e.g. an airport ID card). This requires a positive background check and various training courses.
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Applying for an exemption from the ban on overtime and night work
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Carry out six-month transmission of the employment of persons working from home
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Display activities with asbestos on a company-specific basis
If you work with materials containing asbestos, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority. This notification can be company-specific or object-specific. Notification is only mandatory for companies.
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Display activities with asbestos on an object-related basis
If you work with materials containing asbestos, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority. This notification can be company-specific or object-specific. Notification is only mandatory for companies.
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Display employment of persons in companies with X-ray equipment or interference emitters
Do you employ people who work with external X-ray equipment or external stray radiation sources and may be exposed to a dose higher than 1 mSv? Then you must report this to the competent authority, enclosing the necessary documents (notification).
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Display safety-related operational incidents without personal injury in mining
As an entrepreneur in the mining industry, you must report certain operational incidents to the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for a permit to erect and operate installations with pressure equipment
If you want to build, operate or make certain changes to a filling system for compressed gases, you need a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for a permit to set up and operate petrol stations
If you want to set up, operate or make certain changes to a gas station, you must apply for a permit from the relevant authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - apply for permission to construct and operate a plant requiring monitoring
If you want to build, operate or make certain changes to a plant that requires monitoring, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - applying for a permit to construct and operate storage facilities
If you want to establish, operate or make certain changes to a storage facility, you must apply for a permit from the competent authority.
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Ensuring operational safety - Certifying persons qualified to test protection against hazards from explosions and fires
You need official recognition if you want to carry out tests on explosion-proof equipment.
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Ensuring operational safety - Report a case of damage when using work equipment
You must report any damage incidents involving certain work equipment or systems requiring monitoring in which components or safety-related equipment have failed.
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Ensuring operational safety - Report an accident during the use of work equipment
You must report accidents involving certain work equipment or installations requiring monitoring in which a person has been killed or seriously injured immediately.
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Fire protection
Preventive fire protection covers measures to prevent the outbreak and spread of fire and to secure escape routes.
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Give advance notice of the establishment of a construction site
If you are planning a major construction project, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority in advance of setting up your construction site.
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hazardous substances; Apply for an exemption
If you wish to deviate from the provisions of the Hazardous Substances Ordinance, you must apply for an exemption from the competent authority.
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Home work for which special hazard protection regulations apply
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In addition, indicate the place and time for company-related notification. Required for activities with asbestos on a small scale
If you carry out small-scale activities with asbestos-containing materials, a supplementary notification with the location and time of the work to be carried out is required in addition to the company-related notification.

Responsible: The health and safety authority responsible for the construction site
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Maternity protection
Maternity protection is the aim of legal regulations to protect mothers before and after the birth of a child. This includes employment bans before and after the birth, protectio...
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Notify the statutory accident insurance of any changes in the company, self-employed or freelance activity
Has something changed in your company or in your self-employed or freelance activity? You must report this to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Radiation protection
The regional trade supervisory offices of the structural and licensing directorates perform the following tasks with regard to radiation protection: licensing the...
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Register workplaces in regions or in a working environment with increased exposure to radioactive radiation from radon
As a company, you must measure the radon concentration in radon precautionary areas and register workplaces where the reference value is exceeded despite protective measures.
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Report a suspected occupational disease to the statutory accident insurance fund
If you have indications that an occupational disease may be present, you have the option of reporting this to your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Report a work, commuting or school accident to the statutory accident insurance provider
If a work, commuting or school accident has occurred in your company or institution, you must report it to your relevant employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Report an accident or malfunction involving hazardous substances
If an accident or malfunction or illness or death in connection with hazardous substances has occurred in your company, you must report this immediately.
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Report mining accidents in accordance with the Mining Ordinance on Documentation
Accidents in mining where a person is wholly or partially unfit for work for more than 3 days must be reported to the competent authority.
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Report safety-related operational incidents involving personal injury in mining (accident report)
As an entrepreneur in the mining industry, you must report certain operational incidents involving personal injury to the competent authority.
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Seek occupational health and safety advice
In order to ensure that employees in an employment relationship are guaranteed physical and mental health during working hours, there are regulations and laws on occupational health and safety.
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Show appointment of responsible persons in mining
If you appoint responsible persons in your mining operation, you must notify the competent mining authority.
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Show change in the position of responsible persons in mining
If the position of responsible persons in your mining operation changes, you must notify the competent mining authority.
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Show dismissal of responsible persons in mining
If you dismiss responsible persons in your mining operation, you must notify the competent mining authority.