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GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
RESOLUTION No 510
ON THE APPROVAL OF THE LIST OF DANGEROUS WORKING CONDITIONS AND HAZARDOUS AGENTS TO PREGNANT WOMEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE RECENTLY GIVEN BIRTH OR ARE BREASTFEEDING
27 May 2015
Vilnius
In line with Article 278(1) of the Labour Code of the Republic of Lithuania and aiming to implement the Council Directive 92/85/EEC of 19 October 1992 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (Tenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (OJ 2004 Special Edition, Chapter 5, Volume 2, p. 110) as last amended by the European Parliament and Council Directive 2014/27/EU (OJ 2014 L 65, p. 1) the Government of the Republic of Lithuania has resolved:
1. to approve the List of dangerous working conditions and hazardous agents to pregnant women and women who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (as appended);
2. to repeal Resolution No 340 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 19 March 2003 on the approval of the List of dangerous working conditions and hazardous agents to pregnant women and women who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding.
3. This Resolution shall enter into force on 1 June 2015.
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius
Minister of Social Security and Labour Algimanta Pabedinskienė
APPROVED
by Resolution No 510 of 27 May 2015
of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
LIST OF DANGEROUS working conditions and hazardous Agents to PREGNANT WOMEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE RECENTLY GIVEN BIRTH OR ARE BREASTFEEDING
1. The List of dangerous working conditions and hazardous agents to pregnant women and women who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding (hereinafter referred to as “the List”) specifies working conditions and hazardous agents in the presence of which the work of pregnant and breastfeeding women is prohibited as well as lists dangerous working conditions and hazardous agents to pregnant women and women who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding.
2. Working conditions and hazardous agents in the presence of which the work of pregnant women is prohibited are as follows:
2.2. work related to biological materials such as tozoplasma and rubella virus, unless the pregnant women are proved to be adequately protected against such agents by immunization;
2.3. work related to chemical agents such as lead and lead derivatives in so far as these agents are capable of being absorbed by the human organism;
3. Working conditions and hazardous agents in the presence of which the work of breastfeeding women is prohibited are as follows:
3.1. work related to chemical agents such as lead and lead derivatives in so far as these agents are capable of being absorbed by the human organism;
4. Dangerous working conditions and hazardous agents to pregnant women and women who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding are as follows:
4.1. working conditions related to:
4.1.2. exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, present in coal soot, coal tar, coal pitch, fumes or dusts;
4.1.3. exposure to dusts, fumes and sprays produced during the roasting and
electro-refining of cupro-nickel mattes;
4.3. physical agents where these are regarded as agents likely to cause embryo or foetal lesions and/or likely to disrupt placental attachment, and in particular:
4.4. working conditions related to likely exposure to biological materials of risk groups 2, 3 and 4, classified according to the Regulations on the Protection of Workers from Exposure to Biological Materials at Work approved by the Minister of Social Security and Labour and the Minister of Health, in so far as it is known that these biological materials or the therapeutic measures necessitated by exposure to such materials endanger the health of pregnant women and the embryo or unborn child, except working conditions and dangerous agents indicated in paragraph 2.2. of the List;
4.5. working conditions related to likely exposure to chemical substances and mixtures that meet the classification criteria established in Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (OJ 2008 L 353, p. 1) and that are classified according the above mentioned criteria to one or more hazard classes and categories indicated below that are defined by one or more hazard statements, except for working conditions and hazardous agents indicated in paragraphs 2.3. and 3.1. of the List:
4.5.3. reproductive toxicity, category 1A, 1B or 2 or the additional category for effects on or via lactation (H360, H360D, H360F, H360FD, H360Fd, H360Df, H361, H361d, H361f, H361fd, H362);
4.6. working conditions related to likely exposure to chemical agents, present under working conditions indicated in paragraph 4.1 of the List;