Where the duty comes from
Article 5(3) of the Occupational Health and Safety Services Regulation requires the employer to establish an in-house OHS unit where the workplace physician and the safety specialist must be assigned full time. The unit is the natural consequence of the full-time threshold, not a separate choice.
What the unit involves
Article 11 sets out the minimum conditions. The sections and units are to be within the same area, and their location is marked so workers can easily see it. The list is not limited to space; equipment and access are covered too.
Where full time is not required
The first paragraph of the same article places on the employer the duty to provide minimum conditions even where full-time assignment is not required. So even without the duty to establish a unit, conditions in which the assigned person can do their job must be provided.
The health report side
Article 11(6) treats a unit formed under that article, and meeting its conditions, as an in-house OHS unit for the purposes of the health reports issued, in cases where full-time assignment is not compulsory.
In Optifora
The workplace record holds the unit's existence, its conditions and the people assigned together; a missing condition becomes a task and stays in the workplace's conformity summary until it closes.