What are the duties of a low hazard workplace?

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The low hazard class does not remove duties, it stretches the intervals. The risk assessment and the emergency plan are renewed every six years; basic training is at least eight lesson hours and repeats every three years; the specialist works 10 and the physician 5 minutes per employee a month. What low hazard means Of the 2,142 six-digit activity codes in the annex to the Communiqué on Workplace Hazard Classes, 898 sit in the low hazard class. That is 41.9 percent of the list. The class follows the activity code of the main work carried out at the site. The duty list Subject In a low hazard workplace Occupational safety specialist 10 minutes per employee a month; one full-time specialist at 1,000 employees Workplace physician 5 minutes per employee a month; one full-time physician at 2,000 employees Other health personnel Not required (only in highly hazardous sites with ten or more employees) Risk assessment Renewed at most every six years Emergency plan Renewed at most every six years Drill At least once a year Firefighting, rescue, protection teams One support member per 50 employees for each team First aiders One per 20 employees Basic OHS training At least 8 lesson hours, repeated every three years Induction training At least two hours for every employee OHS board Mandatory with 50 or more employees and continuous work lasting more than six months Employee representative One for 2-50 employees, two for 51-100 Low hazard sites with fewer than 50 employees Article 6 of Law No. 6331 allows employers or employer representatives of low hazard workplaces with fewer than 50 employees, who do not hold the required qualification and certificate, to carry out occupational health and safety services themselves provided they complete the training announced by the Ministry. Two items stay outside that permission: pre-employment and periodic medical examinations and tests. Health surveillance remains a physician's work. Duties that do not depend on the hazard class Periodic inspection of work equipment. Intervals and criteria are read from Annex III of the Regulation on Health and Safety Conditions in the Use of Work Equipment and do not change with the hazard class. Accident and occupational disease notification. Work accidents are notified to the social security institution within three working days. Health surveillance. Failing to provide health surveillance carries a 2026 fine of TRY 22,194 per employee. The fines do not shrink to nothing Penalty tables are read at the intersection of workplace size and hazard class; the low hazard class gives the lowest cell, not a zero. Failing to carry out a risk assessment starts at TRY 66,725 and failing to assign an occupational safety specialist at TRY 111,263, the latter repeating every month while the breach continues. Derive your own times with the OHS duration calculator , your team headcount with the emergency team calculator , equipment intervals from the periodic inspection table and amounts from the penalty tables .

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In the less hazardous class the safety expert's time is at least 10 minutes per employee per month	Regulation on the Duties, Powers, Responsibilities and Training of Occupational Safety Experts, art. 12(1)(a) — at least 10 minutes per employee per month in the less hazardous class; art. 12(2) — in the less hazardous class, at least one full-time expert is assigned for every 1,000 employees in workplaces with 1,000 or more.	The "Safety expert" row of the obligations table.
In the less hazardous class the occupational physician's time is at least 5 minutes per employee per month	Regulation on Occupational Physicians and Other Health Personnel, art. 12(1)(a) — at least 5 minutes per employee per month in the less hazardous class; art. 12(2) — in the less hazardous class, at least one full-time physician is assigned for every 2,000 employees in workplaces with 2,000 or more.	The "Occupational physician" row of the obligations table.
Other health personnel is required only in the very hazardous class with ten or more employees	Law no. 6331, art. 6(1)(a) — the employer shall assign a safety expert, an occupational physician and, in very hazardous workplaces with ten or more employees, other health personnel; art. 6(3) — where a full-time occupational physician is assigned, other health personnel is not mandatory.	The "Other health personnel" row of the obligations table.
In the less hazardous class the risk assessment and the emergency plan are renewed at most every six years	Regulation on Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment, art. 12(1) — the risk assessment is renewed at the latest every two, four and six years in very hazardous, hazardous and less hazardous workplaces respectively. Regulation on Emergencies in Workplaces, art. 14(2) — emergency plans are renewed at the latest every two, four and six years in the same order.	The "Risk assessment" and "Emergency plan" rows of the obligations table.
The drill is carried out at most once a year in workplaces outside mining	Regulation on Emergencies in Workplaces, art. 13(2) — the drill is carried out under the Regulation on Occupational Health and Safety in Mining Workplaces for workplaces within its scope and at most once a year for other workplaces; art. 13(1) — a drill form is prepared covering the date of the drill, the shortcomings observed and the arrangements to be made.	The "Drill" row of the obligations table.
In the less hazardous class the team and first-aider ratios are one per 50 and one per 20 employees	Regulation on Emergencies in Workplaces, art. 11(3)(c) — in less hazardous workplaces at least one support person is assigned for each of the firefighting, rescue and protection teams for up to every 50 employees. First Aid Regulation, art. 19(1)(a) — in less hazardous workplaces it is mandatory to keep one first aider for every 20 employees.	The "Firefighting, rescue, protection teams" and "First aider" rows of the obligations table.
Basic training is at least 8 lesson hours repeated every three years; induction training is at least two hours	Regulation on Occupational Health and Safety Training of Employees, art. 13(1)(a) — at least eight lesson hours in the less hazardous class; art. 14(1)(c) — repeated at least once every three years in that class; art. 7(1) — all employees, including apprentices and interns, receive induction training before actually starting work; art. 7(5) — induction training is at least two hours per employee and is not counted towards the basic training time.	The "Basic OHS training" and "Induction training" rows of the obligations table.
The committee threshold and the number of employee representatives do not depend on the hazard class	Law no. 6331, art. 22(1) — a committee is set up in workplaces with fifty or more employees where continuous work lasting more than six months is carried out; art. 20(1)(a) — one employee representative is assigned in workplaces with two to fifty employees and (b) two in workplaces with fifty-one to one hundred employees.	The "OHS committee" and "Employee representative" rows of the obligations table.
Periodic inspection intervals do not change with the hazard class	Regulation on Health and Safety Conditions in the Use of Work Equipment, art. 7(1) — the equipment and equipment groups listed in the tables in Annex 3 are subject to periodic inspection; the intervals, criteria and the procedure for the documents to be issued are set out in Annex 3.	The first item of the "Duties independent of the hazard class" list.
Health surveillance and accident notification apply in the less hazardous class too	Law no. 6331, art. 15(1) — the employer ensures that employees undergo health surveillance; art. 14(2)(a) — reports work accidents to the Social Security Institution within three working days of the accident; art. 26(1)(f) — a fine is imposed for each employee not placed under health surveillance.	The second and third items of the "Duties independent of the hazard class" list.

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In a small undertaking a competent employer may take on protection and prevention himself	Directive 89/391/EEC, art. 7(7) — Member States may define, in the light of the nature of the activities and size of the undertakings, the categories of undertakings in which the employer, provided he is competent, may himself take responsibility for the measures referred to in paragraph 1.	The EU counterpart of the "Less hazardous workplace with fewer than 50 employees" section.
The scope of the documentation duty may differ by size, but the duty itself does not disappear	Directive 89/391/EEC, art. 9(2) — Member States shall define, in the light of the nature of the activities and size of the undertakings, the obligations to be met by different categories of undertakings in respect of drawing up the documents provided for in paragraph 1; art. 9(1)(a) — the employer shall in any event be in possession of a risk assessment.	The EU counterpart of the logic "the class changes, the duty does not disappear".

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Subject	In a low hazard workplace
Occupational safety specialist	10 minutes per employee a month; one full-time specialist at 1,000 employees
Workplace physician	5 minutes per employee a month; one full-time physician at 2,000 employees
Other health personnel	Not required (only in highly hazardous sites with ten or more employees)
Risk assessment	Renewed at most every six years
Emergency plan	Renewed at most every six years
Drill	At least once a year
Firefighting, rescue, protection teams	One support member per 50 employees for each team
First aiders	One per 20 employees
Basic OHS training	At least 8 lesson hours, repeated every three years
Induction training	At least two hours for every employee
OHS board	Mandatory with 50 or more employees and continuous work lasting more than six months
Employee representative	One for 2-50 employees, two for 51-100

What are the duties of a low hazard workplace?

What low hazard means

The duty list

Low hazard sites with fewer than 50 employees

Duties that do not depend on the hazard class

The fines do not shrink to nothing

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