(1) The main directions of the state policy in the field of occupational safety and health are:

a) ensuring the priority of life, physical integrity and health of employees;

b) issuing and applying normative acts regarding safety and health at work;

c) coordination of activities in the field of occupational safety and health, in the field of environmental protection;

d) state supervision and control over the observance of normative acts in the field of occupational safety and health;

e) supporting public control over the observance of the rights and legitimate interests of employees in the field of occupational safety and health;

f) research, evidence and reporting of work accidents and occupational diseases;

g) the protection of the legitimate interests of employees who have suffered as a result of work accidents and occupational diseases, as well as of their family members, through the compulsory social insurance of employees against work accidents and occupational diseases;

h) propagation of advanced experience in the field of occupational safety and health;

i) participation of public authorities in the implementation of occupational safety and health measures;

j) training in the field of occupational safety and health;

k) organization of state statistical records on working conditions, work accidents, occupational diseases and their material consequences;

l) ensuring the functioning of the unique information system in the field of occupational safety and health;

m) international collaboration in the field of occupational safety and health;

n) contributing to the creation of non-hazardous working conditions, to the elaboration and use of non-hazardous technology and technologies, to the production of the means of individual and collective protection of employees;

o) regulating the provision of employees with individual and collective protection equipment, with sanitary-social rooms and installations, with curative-prophylactic means at the employer's expense.

(2) The state policy in the field of occupational safety and health shall be elaborated and re-examined with the consultation of the employers' associations and trade unions, taking into account the evolution of the international regulations in this field and the technical progress.

(3) The realization of the state policy in the field of safety and health at work is ensured by coordinated actions of the central and local public authorities, of the employers 'associations, trade unions, employers, employees' representatives.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection coordinates health and safety at work in the Republic of Moldova.