Your employer must provide a safe workplace. Your work and the place where you work must not be bad for your health or dangerous to you.
Your boss must follow certain rules so that you can work safely and healthily. These rules are laid down in the Working Conditions Act. This law contains rules on health and safety at work.
If you work in the sex sector, you must also be able to work safely and stay healthy. Sekswerk Goed Geregeld (a Dutch information website for sex workers) explains what you can do if you face inappropriate behaviour, violence or threats. The information on this website is currently only available in Dutch. In future, the information will be available in more languages.
Your boss is required by law to make a list of the risks in your workplace. Your boss must also make an action plan for addressing these risks. This is called a risk assessment and evaluation. You can ask your boss for this list. If you work through an employment agency, the employment agency should be able to give you more information about this.
Accidents and injuries can be prevented if you have the right protective equipment, such as a helmet, gloves or earplugs. Your boss must provide and pay for these items. Instructions must always be written in clear language or use pictograms so that you understand them properly. There must also be good ventilation, a first aid kit in the workplace, and regular safety training.
A work accident is an accident that happens during your work where someone gets hurt. If you are taken to the hospital, have a permanent injury, or someone dies, your employer must report this to the Netherlands Labour Authority. You or your colleague can also do this yourself.
Always follow the rules and instructions. Use protective equipment. Report dangerous or unhealthy situations to your manager or the occupational health adviser.
If you are badly hurt, call 112 or ask a colleague to call. If you are taken to the hospital, have a permanent injury, or someone dies, your employer must report this to the Netherlands Labour Authority. You or your colleague can also report this yourself to the authority.
Yes. You must always be able to work safely. Discuss unsafe situations with your boss. You can also speak to the works council or occupational health adviser. If your workplace is still unsafe, you can report it to the Netherlands Labour Authority.
Ask your boss about this. You work out together what you need. Your boss must provide and pay for appropriate protective equipment, such as a helmet, gloves or earplugs.
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