OSH system at national level - Slovenia

OSH legislative framework

Occupational health and safety at work is covered by “The Health and Safety at Work Act” [1] and the Rules adopted on its basis. The Act transposes into Slovenian law the framework Council Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the health and safety of workers at work [2] and Directive 2006/123/EC of the European parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market [3].The Act came into force in 2011 after more than a decade of validity of the previous Occupational Health and Safety Act [4], which was in force since 1999. The…