Here is the ergonomics legislation from
Ukraine
The information here was collated from official online sources by Ergo Global ergonomists. All information is for general purposes and cannot be considered 1-to-1 legal advice. Ergo Global disclaim any liability relating to the information provided on this page.
To Note
Ukraine does not have a single “ergonomics act,” but ergonomics regulation is integrated into its Law of Ukraine About Labor Protection.
Page last updated: 21/05/2026
The Duties of
The Employer
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Article 4 - State policy in the field of labor protection
The priority of the life and health of employees, the full responsibility of the employer for creating proper, safe and healthy working conditions. -
Article 13 - Labor protection management and employer's duties
The employer is obliged to create working conditions at the workplace in each structural subdivision in accordance with regulatory and legal acts, as well as to ensure compliance with the requirements of legislation regarding the rights of employees in the field of labor protection. For this purpose, the employer ensures the functioning of the occupational health and safety management system, namely:
-creates relevant services and appoints officials who ensure the solution of specific issues of labor protection, approves instructions on their duties, rights and responsibilities for the performance of the functions assigned to them, and also monitors their compliance;
-develops with the participation of the parties to the collective agreement and implements comprehensive measures to achieve the established standards and increase the existing level of labor protection;
-ensures the implementation of necessary preventive measures in accordance with changing circumstances;
-introduces progressive technologies, scientific and technical achievements, means of mechanization and automation of production, ergonomics requirements, positive experience in labor protection, etc.;
-ensures proper maintenance of buildings and structures, production equipment and equipment, monitoring their technical condition;
-ensures the elimination of the causes leading to accidents, occupational diseases, and the implementation of preventive measures determined by the commission based on the results of the investigation of these causes;
-organizes an audit of labor protection, laboratory studies of working conditions, assessment of the technical condition of production equipment and equipment, certification of workplaces for compliance with regulatory and legal acts on labor protection in the order and time period determined by legislation, and based on their results, takes measures to -eliminate dangerous and production factors harmful to health;
-develops and approves regulations, instructions, other acts on labor protection operating within the enterprise (hereinafter - acts of the enterprise), and establishes rules for the performance of work and the behavior of employees on the territory of the enterprise, in production premises, on construction sites, workplaces in accordance with normative - legal acts on labor protection, provides employees with regulatory and legal acts and acts of the enterprise on labor protection free of charge;
-supervises the employee's compliance with technological processes, the rules for handling machines, mechanisms, equipment and other means of production, the use of collective and individual protection, the performance of work in accordance with labor protection requirements;
-organizes promotion of safe work methods and cooperation with workers in the field of labor protection; takes urgent measures to help the victims, if necessary, involves professional emergency and rescue formations in case of accidents and accidents at the enterprise.
The employer bears direct responsibility for the violation of the specified requirements. -
Article 15 - Labor protection service at the enterprise
At an enterprise with 50 or more employees, the employer creates a labor protection service in accordance with the standard provision approved by the central executive body, which ensures the formation of state policy in the field of labor protection.
{Part one of Article 15 as amended by Law No. 5459-VI dated 10/16/2012 } At an enterprise with less than 50 employees, the functions of the labor protection service can be performed part-time by persons who have the appropriate training. At an enterprise with less than 20 employees, third-party specialists with appropriate training may be engaged on a contractual basis to perform the functions of the labor protection service. -
Article 18 - Training on labor protection issues
At the time of hiring and in the course of work, employees must undergo briefings, training on occupational health and safety issues, on providing first aid to victims of accidents and rules of conduct in the event of an accident at the expense of the employer.
The Duties of
The Employer
🏠 for Remote Work
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Article 13 - Labor protection management and employer's duties
When concluding an employment contract on remote work, on home work, the employer is entrusted with the duty of systematic instruction (training) of the employee on labor protection and fire safety within the limits of the use by such employee of the equipment and means recommended or provided by the employer.
The Duties of
The Employee
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Article 6 - Rights of employees to occupational health and safety during work
1)Working conditions at the workplace, the safety of technological processes, machines, mechanisms, equipment and other means of production, the condition of the means of collective and individual protection used by the employee, as well as sanitary and domestic conditions must meet the requirements of the law.
2)An employee has the right to refuse assigned work if a production situation has arisen that is dangerous for his life or health or for the people around him, or for the production environment or the environment.
3)He is obliged to immediately notify his immediate supervisor or employer.
4)The fact of the existence of such a situation is, if necessary, confirmed by the company's labor protection specialists with the participation of a representative of the trade union of which he is a member, or a person authorized by the employees on labor protection issues (if a trade union was not created at the enterprise), as well as a labor protection insurance expert. -
For Remote Work
Article 14 - Obligations of the employee regarding compliance with the requirements of normative legal acts on labor protection
The employee bears direct responsibility for the violation of the specified requirements. When performing work under an employment contract on remote work, on home work, the employee independently determines his workplace and is responsible for ensuring safe and harmless working conditions there, and the employer is responsible for the safety and proper technical condition of the equipment and means of production transferred to the employee for remote or home work. When performing work under an employment contract for home work, the workplace specified by the employee must be characterized by the presence of a fixed area, technical means (main production and non-production funds, tools, devices, inventory) or their combination, necessary for the production of products, provision of services, performance of works or functions , provided by the constituent documents. {Article 14 is supplemented by part three in accordance with Law No. 1213-IX dated February 4, 2021 }
What's next?
Step 1
Run an ergonomics audit following these regulations.
Step 2
List out the gaps in your ergonomics policy.
Step 4
Contact Ergo Global for more support where needed.
