More than 5 thousand violations of labor protection standards detected in organizations of Minsk for eight months

Mobile groups on labor protection under the Minsk City Executive Committee and administrations of Minsk districts conducted more than 800 surveys of construction, industrial and other organizations of the capital in January-August 2026. More than 5 thousand violations of labor protection legislation were revealed. This was reported to the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency in the Department of Labor Protection of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Minsk City Executive Committee.

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- For 2026, Minsk has developed a set of measures to reduce the level of occupational injuries. Mobile groups carry out constant monitoring of compliance with the requirements of the legislation on labor protection in the organizations of the city. For eight months, 249 construction and subcontracting organizations, 109 business entities renting space were examined, said Natalia Nesterovich, head of the labor protection department of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Minsk City Executive Committee. In order to effectively monitor the implementation of the recommendations issued by the heads of organizations by mobile groups of the Minsk City Executive Committee and district administrations, 76 repeated visits to the facilities were carried out (for the same period of 2025 – 64). It was established that on the facts of violations requiring the allocation of additional funds, organizations developed action plans containing real deadlines for implementation.

In 2026, the commission to test knowledge on labor protection of the Minsk City Executive Committee held 53 meetings (in 2025 — 45). More than 7 thousand managers and specialists of the organizations of the capital successfully coped with tasks, which is 78.8% (in 2025 - 7 thousand) of the total number of applications received.