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To safeguard the safety and health of workers, the employer shall take the necessary measures to ensure that: workplaces are designed, constructed, equipped, commissioned, operated and maintained in such a way that workers can perform the work assigned to them without endangering their safety and/or health and/or those of other workers; the operation of workplaces when workers are present takes place under the supervision of a person in charge; work involving a special risk is entrusted only to competent staff and carried out in accordance with the instructions given; all safety instructions are comprehensible to all the workers concerned; appropriate first-aid facilities are provided; any relevant safety drills are performed at regular intervals.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.