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Together with the Labor Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry has prepared three regulations in the field of ensuring safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites, which will soon be sent for public consultation. Among other things, new requirements are proposed regarding work outdoors in times of elevated temperatures.
The Ministry will shortly submit for public discussion the proposal for the Act on ensuring safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites (the law), the proposal for the Regulations on the requirements for safe and healthy work on temporary and mobile construction sites (the regulations on requirements on construction sites) and the proposal for the new Regulations on the training of coordinators for safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites (regulations on coordinators). The content of the current Regulation on ensuring safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites will thus be divided into the law and regulations on requirements on construction sites, while the regulation on coordinators means an amendment to the current Regulations on the program and method of training coordinators for safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites.
Among the proposed changes, among other things, new requirements regarding working outdoors during high and low temperatures will be submitted for public discussion. Workers will have to have a place to cool down in times of higher outside temperatures and a place to warm up in times of low outside temperatures. In the case of working outdoors in clear and sunny weather, according to the proposed rulebook on requirements on construction sites, employers will be obliged to provide workers with adequate protection from the effects of the sun and the use of personal protective equipment in accordance with the regulation governing the use of personal protective equipment by workers, taking into account weather conditions. Work at an air temperature higher than 30 degrees Celsius (°C) will be able to be carried out if the workers have the opportunity to take a break in cooled rooms (maximum 25 °C) for at least two hours and have chilled non-alcoholic drinks available for at least 20 minutes.
A new Rulebook on the training of coordinators for safety and health at work on temporary and mobile construction sites will also be proposed, which differs slightly from the current one in terms of the coordinators' first training program, the procedures for conducting the coordinators' knowledge test and the implementation of periodical training for coordinators.
