How do I find my workplace NACE code?

Step by step

1. Open your registration document. The six-digit activity code of the workplace appears in the social security registration record; your workplace declaration and registration letter carry the same code. Your accounting records hold it as well.
2. Check that the code describes the main work. Under Art. 2/1 of the communiqué the hazard class follows the main work carried out at the site. If the registered code no longer describes what is actually done, the class is computed wrongly too.
3. Look the code up. Enter it in the hazard class lookup. The list comes straight from the annex and covers 2,142 six-digit codes.
4. Derive the duties that follow the class. Read specialist and physician times from the duration calculator and emergency team headcounts from the team calculator.
5. Act if the code is wrong or the work has changed. A change of main activity is notified to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security within one month. An appeal against the class is assessed by the Ministry on the registration records, and if the class changes the requirements are met within 90 days.

Three situations you may hit

• The record shows a higher-level row. The annex holds 1,049 higher-level rows at section, division, group and class level, and no class is written next to them. Registration uses a six-digit code, and the class is read next to that six-digit code.
• The code is repealed. The list carries 20 repealed codes. If one of them appears in your record, the registration needs updating to its current equivalent.
• There is more than one activity. Where several activities fit the definition of main work, the higher hazard class applies; where the main work is in doubt, the founding purpose of the workplace decides.

What changes once you have the code

Knowing the class is not the end of it; the class sets the whole OHS calendar of the workplace. It decides specialist and physician time, the risk assessment renewal interval (six, four or two years), basic training hours (8, 12 or 16 lesson hours), the ratio for firefighting, rescue and protection teams (one per 50, 40 or 30 employees) and the first-aider ratio (one per 20, 15 or 10 employees). One six-digit number builds the entire schedule.