INVESTIGATION OF ACCIDENTS AT WORK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
INVESTIGATION OF ACCIDENTS AT WORK IN THE LIGHT OF THE LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Summary/Abstract: The legal definition, classification, reporting, investigation, record-keeping and registration procedure of accidents at work is enshrined in the Regulation approved by the Decision of the Government of the Republic of Moldova of 22.12.205 on how to investigate accidents at work. An accident at work is an event that has caused violent damage to the employee's body (injury, psychological stress, electrocution, burns, frostbite, asphyxiation, acute poisoning, bodily injury caused by insects and animals, natural disasters, etc.) as a result of the action of a risk factor (attribute, condition, process, phenomenon, behaviour) specific to an element of the work system (worker, work tasks, means of production, working environment) and which has led to the temporary or permanent loss of the employee's ability to work or death. The cumulative defining features of an accident at work are: a) violent injury to the employee's body; b) the determining cause of the violent injury to the employee's body; c) the time and place of the accident. Accidents are divided into accidents at work and accidents outside work; individual and collective accidents; accidents resulting in temporary incapacity for work; serious and fatal accidents. The stages of investigating accidents at work are: 1) Reporting the occurrence of the accident; 2) Investigating the accident itself; 3) Registration of accidents at work and recording accidents.

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