Responsibility for handling technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss, emergency rescue.

A reader emailed nguyenvantoanxx@gmail.com and sent an email to YouMe Law Firm asking: Please tell me, how is the responsibility for handling technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss, emergency rescue regulated?
Jurist Nguyen Thu Thuy, YouMe Law Firm, replied:
Clause 2, Article 19 of the 2015 Law on Labor Safety and Hygiene stipulates measures to handle technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss and emergency rescue as follows:
2. Responsibility for handling technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss and emergency rescue:
a) The employer must order the immediate cessation of the operation of machinery, equipment, the use of materials, substances, and labor activities at the workplace that pose a risk of causing occupational accidents or technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss; must not force employees to continue working or return to the workplace if the risks of occupational accidents that seriously threaten the life or health of the employee have not been resolved; implement remedial measures, measures according to the plan for handling technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss, emergency rescue to organize the rescue of people, property, ensure occupational safety and hygiene for employees, people around the workplace, property and the environment; promptly notify the local authorities where the incident occurs or provide emergency rescue;
b) If a technical incident causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss occurs at a production or business establishment or locality, the employer or locality shall be responsible for urgently mobilizing human resources, material resources and means to promptly respond to the incident in accordance with the provisions of specialized laws;
c) If a technical incident causing serious occupational safety and hygiene loss occurs in relation to many production or business establishments or localities, the employer or local authority where the incident occurs shall be responsible for responding and reporting to the immediate superior agency in accordance with the provisions of specialized laws.
In case the response capacity of production, business establishments and localities is exceeded, it is necessary to urgently report to the direct superior agency to promptly mobilize other production, business establishments and localities to participate in the rescue; production, business establishments and localities requested to mobilize must implement and coordinate the implementation of emergency response measures within their scope and capacity.

Thus, the responsibility for handling technical incidents causing serious occupational safety and hygiene risks and emergency rescue is implemented according to the above regulations.

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