Ensuring of labour protection requirements during design, construction, use of enterprises and units Design, construction and reconstruction of production premises and buildings, development and output of production means, inculcation of technologies, including technologies purchased abroad, not meeting the requirements of standards, rules and norms of labour protection, effective in the Azerbaijan Republic, is not permissible. Projects of enterprises and production means are subject to state expertise, whereas samples of production means - to state tests for their conformity with labour protection requirements. Neither new or reconstructed enterprise, unit, production means cannot be accepted or put into operation without certificate-passport, issued in the established order. Commissioning of new and reconstructed units of production significance is not permitted without permission of a state control body, technical labour inspection at trade unions and trade committee of the enterprise. The work of the enterprise or use of production means, not meeting labour protection requirements and presenting a threat to the health or life of employees , are subject to suspension by authorised bodies in the legally applicable order until their putting in conformity with labour protection requirements.
State provides training of labour protection specialists in colleges of higher education.
Colleges of higher education and secondary schools are to organise obligatory study of the course labour protection with consideration of peculiarities of corresponding production by students and pupils. Enterprises and organisations are to provide system of training and improvement of labour protection qualification of all employees. The order, terms and period of training are determined by the administration in co-ordination with trade committee in accordance with the labour safety legislation currently in force. Leading employees and specialists of enterprises are to periodically take courses on qualification improvement in corresponding institutions and check their knowledge of labour protection rules and norms not less than once three years after their appointment. Apart from all forms of education and improvement of employees' qualification the training of labour protection is to be foreseen.