ZVZD-1 (Slovenian Health and Safety at Work Act)

The core duty is that the employer ensures safety and health at work in every aspect related to the work, at the employer's own expense — measures must not impose any financial burden on workers. The act sets out prevention principles: eliminating hazards at source, replacing the dangerous with the less dangerous, giving priority to collective protective measures over individual ones, adapting work to the person, and providing appropriate information and training. The obligations are not limited to workers under an employment contract but extend to persons performing work for the employer on another legal basis.

The central instrument is risk assessment. The employer must assess in writing the risks to which workers are or could be exposed: identify hazards, determine the exposed groups, assess the risk of injury and damage to health, define measures to reduce those risks, and record all of it in a safety statement with a risk assessment. The assessment must be revised whenever existing measures prove inadequate, circumstances change, or new hazards appear. Workers or their representatives must be consulted, and the statement must be accessible to them.

The act also brings accompanying duties: appointing a professional worker for safety at work and an occupational medicine provider, training workers for safe work with verification of knowledge, providing health examinations, keeping the prescribed records, investigating and reporting accidents at work, and planning and implementing workplace health promotion.

Of particular importance for security practice is the provision requiring the employer to adopt measures to prevent, eliminate and manage cases of violence, mobbing, harassment and other forms of psychosocial risk in the workplace that may endanger workers' health. This obligation is the legal basis for violence prevention programs, threat assessment procedures and incident response plans, and it establishes clearly that these are not voluntary good practice but part of the employer's statutory duty.