Working conditions – conditions of payment, labor standards, performance of labor duties, working hours and rest hours, the procedure for combining professions (positions), expanding service areas, fulfilling the duties of a temporarily absent employee, safety and labor protection, technical, production working conditions, and also other working conditions as agreed by the parties;

Assessment of the actual state of working conditions is based on an assessment of the following indicators:

• degree of harmfulness and hazard of environmental factors;
• degree of the severity and intensity of the labor process;
• degree of injury safety and provision of collective protective equipment;
• provision with personal protective equipment, their quality and compliance with working conditions.

Assessment of the actual state of working conditions is carried out by the certification committee on the basis of the compliance of the measured parameters of hazardous and harmful production factors with sanitary rules and hygienic standards.

In the absence of harmful and hazardous production factors at workplaces or their actual values ​​comply with safety standards, as well as when fulfilling the requirements for injury safety and provision of PPE for workers, it is considered that working safety conditions at workplaces comply with established labor safety requirements in accordance with article 184 of the Labor Code Republic of Kazakhstan.

“The rules of mandatory periodic certification of production facilities on working conditions”, determine the following working conditions:

1. harmful working conditions – working conditions, which are characterized by the presence of harmful production factors;
2. safe working conditions – working conditions under which the levels of exposure of production factors on workers do not exceed established standards;
3. hazardous working conditions – working conditions under which the impact of certain production or unavoidable natural factors leads, in case of non-observance of labor protection rules, to an industrial injury, sudden deterioration of health or poisoning of an employee, resulting in temporary or permanent disability, occupational disease or death;
4. heavy work – types of activities of an employee related to constant movement, moving and carrying by hand (ten kilograms or more) of heavy loads and requiring great physical effort (energy consumption of more than 250 kcal / hour).