If you wish to deviate from the provisions of the Hazardous Substances Ordinance, you must apply for an exemption from the competent authority.

If you are a doctor and would like to apply for an authorization in accordance with the Compressed Air Ordinance, you can obtain this from the competent authority under certain conditions.

As an employer, do you employ a pregnant or breastfeeding woman? Then, under certain conditions, you can apply for an exemption from the ban on night work and overtime as well as the type and pace of work.

If you're working in security restricted areas at an airport, you'll need a background check.

If you wish to employ a pregnant or breastfeeding woman between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., you must obtain permission to do so.

If you want to carry out fumigation, you need a permit, which you must apply for from the competent authority.

You must identify all persons whom you employ in homework under the (HAG) and those persons through whom you pass on homework in lists and submit these lists to the competent body every six months.

If you work with materials containing asbestos, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority. This notification can be company-specific or object-specific. Notification is only mandatory for companies.

If you work with materials containing asbestos, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority. This notification can be company-specific or object-specific. Notification is only mandatory for companies.

As an entrepreneur in the mining industry, you must report certain operational incidents to the competent authority.

For larger construction projects, send an advance notice to the responsible occupational health and safety authority at least two weeks before setting up the construction site. You must also display this advance notice visibly on the construction site and adapt it in the event of significant changes.

If you carry out small-scale activities with materials containing asbestos, a supplementary notification stating the time and place of the work to be carried out is required in addition to the company-related notification.

Responsible: The health and safety authority responsible for the construction site

Has something changed in your company or in your self-employed or freelance work? You must report this to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Before you work with biological substances, for example in laboratories or in the health service, you must notify the competent authority. A permit is required for work in protection levels 3 and 4, which is not covered here.

If an accident or malfunction or illness or death related to hazardous substances has occurred in your company, you must report this immediately.

As an entrepreneur in the mining industry, you must report certain operational incidents involving personal injury to the competent authority.

If a work accident occurs at your company or institution, you must report it.

The employment of persons who work with third-party X-ray equipment or third-party interference sources and who may be exposed to a dose higher than 1 mSv must be reported to the competent authority.

If you, as a company, issue home work in accordance with the Home Work Act (HAG), for the performance of which special hazard protection regulations apply, you must notify the responsible trade supervisory office and the police authority (usually the public order office).