Local Affairs Editor The Minister of Health, Dr. Jalila El -Sayed, issued a decision obligating the employer to provide qualified persons to provide first aid, while making the necessary arrangements for medical aid and treating emergency cases for workers in the workplace.
The decision stated that the employer obliges the necessary arrangements to provide first aid services in his workplaces, taking into account the number of workers working for him, and the nature of the professional dangers resulting from the practice of business, to ensure the provision of first aid as quickly as possible, and obliging him to summon medical assistance to transfer the injured to the nearest health institution to provide the necessary health care for him.
The decision also stipulates in one of his articles to compel the employer to provide an appropriate number of qualified persons and trainers to first aid, in addition to their work, to carry out the first aid operations for the injured or the patient at the workplace until the attendance of medical assistance, and their names are appointed in a special record, by one person for every twenty workers or less.
The employer is committed to identifying a person from among his employees who are responsible for ensuring that first aid means are available in workplace, and to provide all information and data to the competent authorities.
The decision issued and published in the Official Gazette requires the provision of a first aid fund, equipped with medicines, supplies and equipment used to provide first aid services, and the first aid funds must include their guidelines, and to be placed in an easy -to -reach place.
The first aid funds are multiple with multiple work centers for a single employer. In all cases, the employer is obliged to provide one first aid fund for every hundred workers or less.
The employer is obligated to examine the first aid funds periodically to ensure their contents and suitability for use, and to ensure that their contents are valid, and that he maintains a special record of those funds that are highlighted when the relevant judicial seizure officers request, and to prepare a detailed plan to deal with emergency cases in the workplace, so that they include communication information in health institutions, ambulance services, and exits Emergency, a map showing the locations of the nearest health institution.
Anyone who violates the provisions of this decision shall be punished with the penalties stipulated in Article (192) of the Labor Law in the private sector No. (36) for the year 2012, or with the penalties stipulated in Article (129) of the Public Health Law, according to the circumstances.
According to the civil sector law, a period not exceeding three months, and a fine of no less than five hundred dinars and not exceeding one thousand dinars, or one of these two penalties.
According to Article (129) of the Public Health Law, the violator shall be punished with a fine of no less than three hundred dinars and not exceeding three thousand dinars, whoever violates the provisions of Article (79) of this law.
