Chương I Nghị định 37/2016/NĐ-CP: Quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope

This Decree provides for details and guidance on the implementation of certain articles of the law on occupational safety and hygiene with regard to insurance for occupational accidents and occupational diseases for employees who sign labour contracts with employers; rights and responsibilities of relevant agencies and entities for implementing policies on compulsory insurance for occupational accidents and occupational diseases.

Article 2. Regulated entities

1. Officials, public employees and Vietnamese employees with labour contracts who are covered by compulsory insurance for occupational accidents and occupational diseases, consisting of:

a) Officials and public employees are regulated in the law on officials and public employees;

b) Officers or professional soldiers in the people's army; professional and technical officers and non-commissioned officers in the people's public security; cipher officers who are salaried like soldiers;

c) Non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the people’s army; non- commissioned officers and soldiers on definite-term service in the people’s public security; army, public security and cipher cadets who are entitled to cost-of-living allowance;

d) National defense workers, public security workers and persons doing other jobs in cipher organizations;

dd) Persons working under indefinite-term labor contracts and labor contracts with a term of full of 03 months and longer, and persons working under labor contracts with a term of between full of 01 month and under 03 months. This point excludes domestic workers;

e) Salaried managers of enterprises and cooperatives.

2. Employers as regulated in Clause 3 Article 2 of the Law on social insurance.

3. Employees who have retired or no longer do the jobs posing risk of occupational diseases.

4. Relevant agencies and entities involved in insurance for occupational accidents and occupational diseases.

Entities prescribed in Clause 1 and Clause 3 of this Article shall be hereinafter referred to as employees.

Article 3. Interpretation of terms

1. Occupational health facility refers to a health facility that has satisfied all operating requirements as regulated by the law on medical examination and treatment.

2. Occupational health rehabilitation refers to the process of adopting medical solutions, rehabilitation techniques, educational and sociological measures for rehabilitating employees' occupational health.

3. Occupational health rehabilitation facility is a health facility that has satisfied all of requirements for carrying out occupational health rehabilitation activities as regulated by the law on medical examination and treatment.