Paragraph 66 of the regulation on Minimum Requirements for Occupational Safety and Health will be supplemented with this provision. In particular. if the work process is frequently and regularly interrupted and there are no rest rooms for workers at the enterprise, the management should provide other rooms where they can stay during such breaks.
Another provision provides for the addition of the document on the Minimum Occupational Health and Safety Requirements for Working with a Monitor. They stipulate that the monitor screen should be positioned so that light sources such as windows and other openings, transparent or translucent walls, and brightly colored lights or walls do not cause direct glare and annoying reflections on the screen.
The new provisions require windows to be equipped with an appropriate adjustable covering system to attenuate daylight entering the workplace.
The new norms are included in the Government Decision No. 730 of 26.11.2025 on the amendment of some Government Decisions in the field of occupational safety and health, published on November 28 this year. It provides for the transposition, within the framework of secondary normative law, of the provisions of three EU directives: on minimum requirements for occupational safety and health at the workplace, on minimum requirements for safety and health alarms at the workplace and on minimum safety and health conditions for working at the monitor.
The new regulations will enter into force six months after the publication date, i.e., from May 28, 2026, except for some changes in the Minimum Requirements for Safety and Health Signaling at Workplace, approved by Government Decision No. 918/2013. The latter will be implemented as of January 1, 2027.
In particular, this document is supplemented by paragraph 101, which establishes that the application of these requirements will be carried out in accordance with Article 15 of the Law on Occupational Safety and Health No. 186/2008.
It establishes that “employers shall consult workers, including those who work remotely, and/or their representatives and allow them to participate in discussions on occupational safety and health”.
At the same time, workers have the right to contact labor inspectors if they consider that the measures taken by the employer and the means provided by them are not in line with the objectives of occupational safety and health. At the same time, they must be given the opportunity to submit their comments to the inspectors during inspections.
