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Pre-shift medical examinations for employees driving vehicles who are not employed as official drivers - mandatory or voluntary?

At the end of 2018, amendments were introduced to Federal Law No. 196-FZ dated 10 December 1995 “On Road Traffic Safety” (the Road Traffic Safety Law). The key amendment is that previously the general requirements on road traffic safety imposed on legal entities and individual entrepreneurs (Article 20 of the Road Traffic Safety Law) only applied to legal entities that engage in activities related to the operation of vehicles, i.e. transport and logistics companies, etc.Now, the general requirements on road traffic safety apply to any legal entities and individual entrepreneurs that operate vehicles. In other words, any company that owns or rents a car must comply with these requirements.

This article was published in the "Safety, Health, Environment & Security", AEB Quarterly Magazin, Spring 2020, and can be downloaded in the area below.


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