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Text consolidated by Tulkošanas un terminoloģijas centrs (Translation and Terminology Centre) with amending regulations of:

6 May 2004 (No. 475).

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Republic of Latvia

Cabinet
Regulation No. 494
Adopted 27 November 2001

Regulations regarding Work Associated with Possible Risk to the Health of Other Persons and in which Persons Employed therein are Subject to Mandatory Health Examinations

Issued pursuant to
Section 34 of the
Epidemiological Safety Law

1. These regulations prescribe the types of work associated with a possible risk to the health of other persons (including trainees) and in which persons employed in this type of work are subject to mandatory initial (prior to commencing employment) and periodic health examinations, as well as the frequency of periodic examinations (Annex 1).

2. A mandatory initial health examination and mandatory periodic health examinations shall be performed upon those persons whose work (traineeship) is closely associated with a possible risk to the health of other people and who are employed in:

2.1. undertakings (commercial companies), institutions and organisations involved in any of the stages of circulation of foodstuffs (except for the production of grain milling products, yeast, starch and starch products, the production of distilled alcoholic beverages, the production of ethyl alcohol from other fermented materials, the production of wine, cider and other fruit wines and the production of other non-distilled beverages from fermented materials); and

2.2. undertakings (commercial companies), institutions and organisations the type of activity of which includes the provision of services to clients in:

2.2.1. hairdressing salons and cosmetology salons;

2.2.2. swimming pools for public use;

2.2.3. saunas for public use;

2.2.4. solaria;

2.2.5. tourist lodgings;

2.2.6. official accommodation facilities;

2.3. pre-school educational establishments;

2.4. general educational establishments;

2.5. vocational educational establishments;

2.6. children's extracurricular educational establishments;

2.7. children's work and recreation camps;

2.8. social care institutions;

2.9. medical treatment institutions (including in sanatoriums); and

2.10. passenger services on long-distance trains.

[6 May 2004]

3. A mandatory initial health examination and mandatory periodic health examinations upon employees shall be performed by a primary health care physician in observance of the requirements specified in Annex 1 of this Regulation and he or she shall give (not give) permission for the employee to work in the given position by making an entry in the medical booklet of the person (Annex 2).

4. An employer shall make an entry in the medical booklet of a person, indicating the information regarding workplace and position of the employee and shall certify the correctness of the entry with a signature and seal.

5. The medical booklets of a person shall be preserved in a place accessible to a supervisory body. The supervisory body shall make an entry in the control statement regarding the control of the medical booklet of the person.

6. If an employee changes his or her place of work and the amount of required mandatory health examinations corresponds with those performed previously, the subsequent regular examination may be performed in observance of the frequency of the mandatory health examinations specified in Annex 1 of this Regulation.

7. Compliance with these Regulations shall be controlled by the State Sanitary Inspection and the Food and Veterinary Service in accordance with their competence.

Prime Minister A. Bērziņš

Minister for Welfare A. Požarnovs

Annex 1
Cabinet Regulation No. 494
27 November 2001

List of Jobs and the Frequency of Mandatory Health Examinations upon Persons Employed in Jobs Associated with Possible Risk to the Health of Other People

No.	List of jobs	Mandatory health examinations	Frequency of mandatory health examinations
No.	List of jobs	Mandatory health examinations	Initial health examination	Periodic health examinations
1	2	3	4	5
1.	Work (traineeship) in any of stages of the circulation of foodstuffs (except for the production of grain milling products, yeast, starch and starch products, the production of distilled alcoholic beverages, the production of ethyl alcohol from other fermented materials, the production of wine, cider and other fruit wines and the production of other non-distilled beverages from fermented materials)	General examination	X	once a year
		Special examination
		X-ray examination - large-scale fluorography	X	once a year
		laboratory examinations - bacteriological examinations (typhoid fever, shigellosis, salmonellosis)	X	-
2.	Provision of services to clients:	General examination	X	once a year
2.1.	in hairdressing salons and cosmetology salons;	Special examination
2.2.	in swimming-pools of public use;	X-ray examination - large-scale fluorography	X	once a year
2.3.	in saunas of public use;
2.4.	in solaria;
2.5.	in tourist lodgings;
2.6.	in …;
2.7.	in passenger attendance in long-distance trains.
3.	Work:	General examination	X	once a year
3.1.	in pre-school educational establishments;	Special examination
3.2.	in general educational establishments;	X-ray examination - large-scale fluorography	X	once a year
3.3.	in vocational educational establishments;	laboratory examinations only for those persons engaged in care for infants and children of pre-school age - bacteriological examinations for detecting germs of intestinal infectious diseases (typhoid fever, shigellosis, salmonellosis)	X	-
3.4.	in children's extracurricular educational establishments;
3.5.	in children's work and recreation camps;
3.6.	in social care institutions
4.	Work in medical treatment institutions (including in sanatoriums);	General examination	X	once a year
		Special examination
		X-ray examination - large-scale fluorography	X	once a year
		laboratory examinations only for those persons who perform surgical procedures, invasive manipulations, gynaecological examinations, assist at delivery, provide stomatological assistance and are not vaccinated against hepatitis type-B - serological examination for determining the presence of hepatitis B antigen	X	once a year

[6 May 2004]

Minister for Welfare A. Požarnovs

Annex 2
Cabinet Regulation No. 494
27 November 2001

(title page)

Medical Booklet of the Person

(new page)

Place for photograph

Owner of the booklet

Name
Surname
Personal identity number
Address of the place of residence

(new page; provides for not less than three double-page spreads)

1. Notes on the work place and position of the owner of the booklet

No.	Position	Place of employment (name, address, phone number)	Date, signature of the employer or his or her authorised person, seal
1	2	3	4

(new page; provides for not less than six pages)

2. Information about the performance of mandatory health examinations and the results thereof

No.	Physician's opinion	Signature of the primary health care physician, seal, date of examination
1	2	3

Note. The primary health care physician shall perform health examinations upon the employee in conformity with Cabinet Regulation No. 494 of 27 November 2001 "Regulations Regarding Jobs Associated with Possible Risk to the Health of Other Persons and Persons Engaged therein that are Subject to Mandatory Health Examinations".

(new page)

3. The owner of the medical booklet shall immediately inform his or her employer and visit his or her primary health care physician if the following symptoms of diseases occur:

3.1. diarrhoea;

3.2. vomiting;

3.3. jaundice;

3.4. fever; high body temperature;

3.5. sore throat;

3.6. skin rash;

3.7. skin damage on open parts of the body (burn wounds, wounds, abscesses, etc.);

3.8. purulent discharges from the eyes, ears, nose.

Signature of the owner of the medical booklet

(new page; provides for not less than two pages)

4. Notes

Note. Preferable size of the medical booklet - 105 x 148 mm.

Minister for Welfare A. Požarnovs

Document information

Title: Status:

no longer in force Issuer: Cabinet of Ministers Type: Document number: 494Adoption: 27.11.2001.Entry into force: End of validity: Publication: Latvijas Vēstnesis, 174, 30.11.2001.

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