Legal basis

The Labor Code aims to protect employees from accidents, illnesses and health impairments associated with the workplace. On the one hand, it contains regulations on the safety and health protection of employees at the workplace, and on the other hand, regulations on working hours and rest periods. The Labor Code provides for more extensive protective measures for pregnant women and nursing mothers, as well as for adolescent workers. In fact, these two categories of workers are more exposed to certain risks than others. Various ordinances complete this law.

Law on Work in Industry, Trade and Commerce

Law on Work in Industry, Trade and Commerce (Labor Law (ArG)

Content:

• Safety and health protection
• Plan approval / operating permit
• Working hours / rest periods / shift work
• Special protection for juvenile workers and women

Ordinance I to the Labor Act

Ordinance I to the Labor Code (ArGV I)

Content:

• Working and rest time (on-call duty, breaks, maximum working hours, overtime, Sunday and night work, shift work, wage supplement, working time permit)
• Measures for night work (medical examination)
• Special protection for women (maternity)
• Special duties (company regulations)

Ordinance II to the Labor Code

Ordinance II to the Labor Code (ArGV II)

Content:

• Special provisions for certain groups of establishments or employees who do not require a permit for night or Sunday work

Ordinance on the safety and health of workers at work

Ordinance on the Safety and Health Protection of Workers at Work (ArGV)

Content:

• Duties of the employer and the employee
• Special requirements ( building, working environment, techn. facilities and equipment, workplaces, screen, PPE, work organization, noise, hazardous substances and radiation, social rooms, first aid, maintenance, labeling, cleaning)

Ordinance IV to the Labor Code

Ordinance IV to the Labor Code (ArGV IV)

Content:

• Industrial operations
• Plane permit
• Operating permit

Ordinance V to the Labor Code

Ordinance V to the Labor Act (ArGV V)

Content:

• Special provisions on the protection of young workers up to the age of 18

Ordinance on the safety and health protection of workers during construction work

Ordinance on the Safety and Health Protection of Workers during Construction Work (Construction Work Ordinance, BauAV)

Content:

• General: helmet, warning clothing
• Working equipment, workplaces, traffic routes, working environment
• Working on roofs , fall protection
• Scaffolding
• Digging, shafts, excavations
• Deconstruction, demolition
• Underground mining, mining gravel and rock, work on hanging rope and in pipe lines

Ordinance on the safe use of cranes

Ordinance on the Safe Use of Cranes (Crane Ordinance; KranV)

Content:

• Use of cranes
• Crane operator's license and crane operator training
• Control of cranes

Regulation on safety and health protection in the use of pressure equipment

Ordinance on the Safety and Health Protection of Workers when Using Pressure Equipment (Pressure Equipment Use Ordinance)

Work in industry and trade

Swiss ordinance, which is applicable in Liechtenstein on the basis of the customs treaty.

Law of 29 November 1945 concerning Work in Industry and Trade (Workers Protection Act)

EUR-Lex database

European Union directives referred to in the regulations can be obtained free of charge from the EUR-Lex database.