On informing on knowledge verification issues

One of the common violations is the failure of responsible persons to undergo unscheduled knowledge checks on industrial safety issues. The Vitebsk regional department of Gospromnadzor reminds.

In accordance with clause 11 of the Instruction on the procedure for training and checking knowledge on industrial safety, approved by the Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus of July 6, 2016 No. 31 (hereinafter referred to as the Instruction), one of the cases of conducting an unscheduled knowledge check for persons specified in sub-clauses 4.1, 4.3 - 4.5 of clause 4 of the Instruction is the adoption (amendment) of legislative acts in the field of industrial safety.

For reference:

4.1. managers and specialists, except for persons specified in sub-clauses 4.3 - 4.5 of this clause:

carrying out management and appointed in the prescribed manner as responsible for carrying out work when performing work and (or) providing services that constitute activities in the field of industrial safety (hereinafter referred to as managers and specialists carrying out work management);

performing work that constitutes activities in the field of industrial safety;

4.3. employees of the industrial safety service (engineer
for industrial safety, responsible person entrusted with the relevant duties for ensuring industrial safety) (hereinafter referred to as persons responsible for carrying out industrial control);

4.4. persons responsible for safe operation;

4.5. chairman of the commission for checking knowledge on industrial safety issues, created in the industrial safety entity, its structural unit, including a separate subdivision.

In accordance with clause 13 of the Instruction, teachers undergo an unscheduled knowledge check when legislative acts in the field of industrial safety, which they teach, are amended.

Amendments to:

Rules for ensuring the industrial safety of attractions (Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus of December 30, 2022 No. 89);

Rules for ensuring industrial safety of lifting cranes (Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus of December 30, 2022
No. 88);

Rules for ensuring industrial safety of elevators, construction freight and passenger hoists, escalators, passenger conveyors (Resolution of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus of January 5, 2023
No. 3), entail the need for an unscheduled knowledge test.

In this regard, in accordance with the requirements of paragraphs 19 and 20 of the Instruction, the following are subject to an unscheduled knowledge test by the Gosgortekhnadzor commission on industrial safety issues:

the chairman of the commission for testing knowledge on industrial safety issues, established within an industrial safety entity;

managers and specialists who supervise and are appointed in the prescribed manner responsible for carrying out work during the performance of work and (or) provision of services (design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, repair, maintenance, technical diagnostics, and technical inspection);

persons responsible for safe operation;

persons responsible for carrying out industrial control;

teachers.

Managers and specialists performing work related to industrial safety activities (design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, repair, maintenance, technical diagnostics, and technical inspection), the chairman of the commission for testing knowledge on industrial safety issues, established in a structural unit of an industrial safety entity, including a separate unit, undergo an unscheduled knowledge test by the commission for testing knowledge on industrial safety issues, established within an industrial safety entity.