Royal Decree 614/2001 on electrical risk
Electrical risk protection, work procedures, training and information.
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157 instruments documented in Spanish, English and Catalan: the 49 included in the BOE Occupational Risk Prevention Code consulted, edition dated 23 October 2026, plus one hundred and eight additional instruments with their individual history and status. This collection does not cover all Spanish legislation: national, regional, European and historical provisions remain to be reviewed.
Legislation records
Law 31/1995 on Occupational Risk Prevention: status and history
The general preventive framework, rights and duties, amendments and partial repeals.
Royal Decree 1316/1989 on workplace noise: repealed legislation
Historical workplace noise legislation. General repeal in 2006 and end of the transition in 2008.
Royal Decree 485/1997 · Safety and health signs
Governs signs, colours and communications used to warn of risks and guide safety actions at work.
Royal Decree 486/1997 · Workplaces
Sets minimum workplace safety and health conditions, including construction, environmental conditions, lighting, hygiene and first aid.
Royal Decree 487/1997 · Manual handling of loads
Governs the prevention of risks from manual handling of loads, particularly back injuries.
Royal Decree 488/1997 · Display screen equipment
Governs the prevention of risks when working with display screens, covering vision, physical discomfort and mental workload.
Royal Decree 773/1997 · Personal protective equipment
Governs the selection, use and maintenance of personal protective equipment used by workers.
Royal Decree 39/1997 · Prevention services regulations
Sets out how employers organise occupational risk prevention: the prevention plan, risk assessment, planning, preventive arrangements, audits and professional capabilities.
Royal Decree 171/2004 · Coordination of business activities
Implements Article 24 of the Occupational Risk Prevention Law to coordinate prevention when several employers or self-employed people share a workplace.
Royal Decree 1215/1997 · Use of work equipment
Sets minimum safety requirements for selecting, using, maintaining and inspecting work equipment. Its annexes include specific provisions for temporary work at height.
Royal Decree 1627/1997 · Safety and health on construction sites
Organises construction-site prevention through safety and health studies and plans, coordination, and duties for clients, contractors, subcontractors and self-employed workers.
Royal Decree 374/2001 · Chemical agents at work
Sets out how to identify, assess and control risks from hazardous chemical agents, including specific controls, health surveillance and emergency arrangements.
Royal Decree 664/1997 · Exposure to biological agents
Governs assessment and prevention of occupational exposure to biological agents, their classification, containment, health surveillance and specified notifications.
Royal Decree 665/1997 · Carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances
Sets specific controls for occupational exposure to carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic substances. Its current scope includes reprotoxic substances following the 2024 reform.
Royal Decree 286/2006 · Exposure to noise
Governs protection against noise at work through action and limit values, assessment, risk reduction, hearing protection and health surveillance.
Royal Decree 1311/2005 · Exposure to mechanical vibration
Sets protection requirements for hand-arm and whole-body vibration, including assessment, action and limit values, risk reduction and health surveillance.
Royal Decree 847/2026 · Work involving asbestos exposure risk
The national regulation in force for asbestos-risk work since 24 October 2026. It replaces Royal Decree 396/2006 and governs assessment, work plans, training, health, registers and laboratories.
Law 32/2006 · Subcontracting in construction
Regulates business requirements, limits on subcontracting chains, records and occupational safety training on construction sites.
Royal Decree 1216/1997 · Safety and health on fishing vessels
Sets minimum safety, maintenance, rescue and training requirements for work aboard the fishing vessels within its scope.
Royal Decree 1389/1997 · Safety and health in mining
Sets minimum protection requirements for mining activities and requires a safety and health document adapted to the work and changes to it.
Royal Decree 216/1999 · Safety and health for temporary agency work
Allocates prevention duties between the temporary-work agency and the user undertaking before and during an assignment.
Royal Decree 681/2003 · Explosive atmospheres at work
Sets requirements for assessment, prevention, zone classification and documentation protecting workers from explosive atmospheres.
Royal Decree 1109/2007 · Implementing rules for construction subcontracting
Implements Law 32/2006 with rules on accreditation and registration, safety training and the Subcontracting Book.
Royal Decree 486/2010 · Artificial optical radiation
Regulates assessment and reduction of occupational risks from artificial optical radiation, including lasers, and exposure limits.
Royal Decree 299/2016 · Exposure to electromagnetic fields
Sets risk-assessment requirements, exposure limits, action levels and preventive measures for electromagnetic fields at work.
Royal Decree 1029/2022 · Protection against ionising radiation
Approves radiation-protection regulations covering occupational exposure, area and worker classification, dosimetry, health surveillance and radon at work.
Royal Decree 893/2024 · Occupational risk prevention in domestic employment
Regulates health and safety in domestic employment: assessment, controls, equipment, information, training, prevention arrangements and protection against violence and harassment.
Royal Decree 618/2020 · Working conditions and protection in fishing
Improves protection of fishers concerning food, drinking water, accommodation and medical care, alongside other working conditions.
Order TIN/2504/2010 · Accreditation of prevention services and authorisation of audits
Details resources and requirements for prevention services, their annual reports and authorisation of those auditing prevention systems.
Royal Decree 843/2011 · Healthcare activities of prevention services
Sets technical conditions, healthcare staffing and equipment, authorisation and quality control for preventive healthcare activities.
Royal Decree 860/2018 · Prevention activities of social-security mutual associations
Regulates prevention activities delivered by mutual associations within social-security protection, including planning, funding and monitoring.
Royal Decree 67/2010 · Risk prevention in Spain’s General State Administration
Adapts prevention organisation and participation, prevention services and system oversight to Spain’s General State Administration.
Royal Decree 707/2002 · Corrective occupational safety measures in the General State Administration
Regulates the Labour Inspectorate’s special procedure for requiring correction of prevention failures in the General State Administration.
Royal Decree 1932/1998 · Prevention and civilian staff participation in military establishments
Adapts prevention rights, duties and participation for civilian staff in centres and establishments of the Military Administration.
Royal Decree 1755/2007 · Military personnel risk prevention and Defence prevention services
Regulates prevention for military personnel and organises Ministry of Defence prevention services, with specific provisions for operational activities.
Royal Decree 179/2005 · Occupational risk prevention in the Civil Guard
Sets protection, planning, training, health-surveillance and prevention arrangements for Civil Guard activities within its scope.
Royal Decree 2/2006 · Occupational risk prevention in the National Police
Adapts preventive protection, participation, training, health surveillance and system oversight to National Police officers.
Royal Decree 597/2007 · Publication of very serious occupational safety penalties
Determines how final administrative penalties for very serious prevention offences are published and how their data is retained in public registers.
Law 23/2015 · Labour and Social Security Inspectorate: prevention functions
Organises the inspection system and its powers. For occupational health and safety it covers prevention enforcement, investigation of occupational accidents and diseases and measures addressing non-compliance.
Royal Decree 192/2018 · Organisation of the State Labour Inspectorate body
Approves the governance, management and participation structure of the State Labour and Social Security Inspectorate body and its central and territorial organisation.
Royal Decree 138/2000 · Inspection operations and authorised prevention technicians
Regulates inspection operations and collaboration by authorised technicians checking material safety and health conditions.
Royal Decree 1879/1996 · Composition of the National Safety and Health Commission
Regulates the composition and basic operation of the National Commission for Safety and Health at Work as an advisory and institutional-participation body.
Royal Decree 231/2017 · Incentive for reduced occupational accident rates
Regulates reductions in occupational-contingency contributions for low accident rates. Statutory suspension extends until the decree is reformed; this record does not present the incentive as currently open for applications.
Order ESS/256/2018 · Implementing rules for the low-accident-rate incentive
Details applications, observation periods, indices, investments and declarations under Royal Decree 231/2017. Its formal survival does not reactivate the suspended incentive.
Royal Decree 1993/1995 · Mutual associations and prevention of occupational contingencies
Broadly regulates mutual associations’ role in social security. This record covers occupational contingencies, prevention, rehabilitation and assistance, identifying provisions displaced by later legislation.
Resolution 28/12/2004 · Historical allocation of mutual-association prevention costs
Set compensation criteria for sharing resources between social-security work and mutual associations’ external prevention services. Retained for historical reconstruction without presenting that organisational model as currently permitted.
Order TAS/3623/2006 · Social-security prevention activities and historical funding
Regulated prevention activities and funding in social security. Provisions on programmes and studies remain, while the mutual-association activity provisions and Foundation funding chapter were repealed in 2018 and 2023 respectively as specified.
Royal Legislative Decree 5/2000 · LISOS: occupational risk prevention offences and penalties
The Social Order Offences and Penalties Law defines prevention offences, sets penalties and allocates liability. This record develops only its occupational health and safety content.
Royal Decree 928/1998 · Employment and occupational safety penalty procedure
Regulates the administrative procedure for social-order penalties and other proceedings. For occupational risk prevention, it details infringement reports, evidence, objections, decisions and cooperation by authorised technical officials.
Royal Decree 396/2006 · Asbestos: historical legislation and the 2026 transition
Regulated asbestos risk prevention from 11 October 2006 until repeal on 24 October 2026 by Royal Decree 847/2026. This historical record supports consultation of earlier exposures, records and plans while distinguishing transitional savings from the current framework.
Decree of 26 July 1957 · Work prohibited for minors and repeal of restrictions on women
The decree established prohibitions on dangerous or unhealthy work using the age and sex categories of 1957. Law 31/1995 repealed its provisions concerning women’s work and retained those concerning minors pending implementation of Article 27(2). This record documents that partial validity as at 14 November 2026, alongside the protection of every worker under eighteen; historical restrictions on adult women are not current duties.
Royal Decree 783/2001 · Repealed radiation-protection regulations and transitional dose coefficients
These were the general health-protection regulations for ionising radiation from 2001 until repeal by Royal Decree 1029/2022. This record reconstructs their occupational provisions. Repeal did not immediately end every use of their coefficients: Annex III had an express transitional regime, and the CSN’s new occupational coefficients apply from 8 April 2025.
Royal Decree 413/1997 · Radiation protection of outside workers, repealed legislation
Established operational protection for outside workers entering controlled areas of nuclear or radioactive installations. It allocated responsibilities between the outside undertaking, the operator and the worker and governed individual radiological monitoring. It was repealed on 22 December 2022 and is retained as a predecessor of the current regime.
Law 54/2003 · Reform of the occupational risk prevention framework
This reform strengthened the integration of prevention into business management and revised occupational safety enforcement and offences. Its amendments were incorporated into Law 31/1995 and the Law on Offences and Sanctions in the Social Order.
Royal Decree 604/2006 · Integrating prevention and preventive resources
It developed the 2003 reform through changes to the Prevention Services Regulation and construction safety rules, covering the prevention plan, preventive resources and audits.
Royal Decree 298/2009 · Pregnancy and breastfeeding in risk assessment
It amended the Prevention Services Regulation by adding lists of agents, processes and conditions relevant to the safety and health of pregnant workers, workers who have recently given birth and breastfeeding workers.
Royal Decree 337/2010 · Prevention services and construction safety
It reformed prevention-service organisation and certain subcontracting and construction requirements. It connects three regulations that must be read together in their current versions.
Royal Decree 2177/2004 · Temporary work at height
It introduced specific requirements for equipment and techniques used in temporary work at height within Royal Decree 1215/1997, with adjustments to workplace and construction rules.
Royal Decree 612/2024 · Protection against reprotoxic agents
It extended Royal Decree 665/1997 to reprotoxic agents, revised preventive measures and added biological limit values. This is a 2024 reform; the receiving regulation was amended again in 2026.
Royal Decree 427/2021 · Used oils and diesel emissions
It amended the annexes to Royal Decree 665/1997 to include work involving exposure to specified used mineral oils and diesel engine emissions, and to update agents and limit values.
Royal Decree 1154/2020 · Crystalline silica and carcinogenic agents
It brought work generating exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust within Royal Decree 665/1997 and updated measures and limit values for carcinogenic agents.
Order TES/1287/2021 · Activities and classification of biological agents
It updated Annexes I and II to Royal Decree 664/1997: the indicative list of activities and the classification of biological agents. It completes the technical adaptation begun by Order TES/1180/2020.
Order TES/1180/2020 · SARS-CoV-2 and biological-agent containment
It updated SARS-CoV-2 classification and containment guidance in the annexes to Royal Decree 664/1997. The subsequent 2021 reform replaced the general classification of agents again.
Royal Decree 1299/2006 · Occupational disease schedule and reporting
Approves the Social Security occupational disease schedule and distinguishes it from a supplementary list of diseases suspected of occupational origin. It allocates classification, communication and reporting roles to managing or cooperating institutions, medical practitioners and employers. Its preventive value lies in identifying harm, reporting suspected work-related disease and improving information on workplace exposures.
Royal Decree-law 4/2023 · Prevention of heat and adverse-weather risks
Final provision one strengthens protection for outdoor work and workplaces that cannot be enclosed. Adverse weather, task characteristics and individual circumstances must be assessed and effective measures taken, including adjusted hours or prohibition of specific tasks where necessary. This record excludes the instrument’s agricultural, tax, water and transport measures.
SEPE Resolution of 8 May 2026 · Prevention training for household workers
Establishes prevention training, self-assessment and certification for household workers. Training takes place through eFundae and distinguishes a participation certificate from an achievement diploma according to completion of checks and their results. It implements Royal Decree 893/2024 without replacing household risk assessment or supplementary training for exceptional risks.
Royal Decree 505/2024 · Medical fitness and maritime-fishing health
Regulates examinations and medical fitness certificates for seafaring and professional diving within its scope. It also governs preventive maritime-health activities, reporting of suspected occupational disease and clinical records. The Social Marine Institute organises and supervises the examinations, which are free of charge.
Royal Decree 1696/2007 · Seafaring medical examinations: repealed regulation
Provided the framework for seafaring medical examinations from 2008 until its replacement in 2024. It regulated eligibility, fitness decisions, certificate duration, occupational clinical records and disease reporting. It is retained as background for understanding historical files and the development of maritime health protection, without presenting its requirements as current law.
Royal Decree 863/1985: General Basic Mining Safety Regulations
Sets minimum mining safety rules and the technical arrangements needed to protect people working in the covered activities. It addresses technical management, installations, accidents, rescue and the risks of underground, surface and drilling operations. It operates alongside the relevant complementary technical instructions (ITCs) and occupational risk prevention legislation. This entry covers the general regulations; it does not mean that every ITC has already been catalogued.
Royal Decree 3255/1983: risk prevention in the Miners’ Statute
The Miners’ Statute incorporates safety, hygiene and preventive medicine into employers’ duties and provides specific participation arrangements for mining workers. Chapter IV covers prevention at source, investigation of harm, information, training, health surveillance and serious and imminent danger, alongside mining safety committees and delegates. It is a mixed labour instrument: this entry develops its OSH content and retains historical links without making retirement or financial employment conditions its main subject.
Order ITC/101/2006: safety and health document in extractive industries
Approves ITC 02.1.01, setting the minimum content and structure of the safety and health document for extractive-industry workplaces. The document must show how prevention is integrated, planned and implemented: risks, measures, organisation, contractor coordination, training, emergencies and health surveillance. It is not a form that replaces preventive action; it must reflect actual conditions and be updated. The 2020 amendment clarified approval by technical management, supervision of workplaces and the presence of preventive resources.
Order ITC/1316/2008: preventive training for mining jobs
Approves ITC 02.1.02 on minimum preventive training for mining jobs. It requires training matched to actual tasks and risks, periodic updating and documentary evidence. Technical specifications define training programmes for groups of jobs; the absence of a specification does not remove the employer’s duty to provide training. Following the 2011 amendment, this training must be delivered in person and refresher or updating courses must last at least five teaching hours.
Order TED/723/2021: respirable dust and crystalline silica in mining
Approves ITC 02.0.02 to prevent pneumoconiosis and other occupational respiratory diseases caused by inorganic dust, with particular attention to silicosis and lung cancer from respirable crystalline silica. It brings together mining rules previously spread across different ITCs and connects assessment, measurement, exposure reduction, hygiene, respiratory protection, health surveillance and records. It applies alongside Royal Decrees 665/1997 and 374/2001, preserving the ITC’s more stringent or specific provisions.
Order ESS/1451/2013 · Preventing sharps injuries in healthcare
Sets measures to prevent injuries and infections from medical sharps. It combines risk assessment, eliminating unnecessary use, safer devices, training and post-exposure care.
Order TAS/2926/2002 · Occupational accident forms and electronic reporting
Updates occupational accident reporting forms and enables electronic transmission. The information supports preventive oversight and statistics, subject to regional executive powers.
Resolution of 26 November 2002 · Electronic occupational accident reporting, Delt@
Regulates use of Delt@ to transmit occupational accident reports. It provides traceability of receipt, document retention and responsibility for access to information.
Order of 16 December 1987 · Occupational accident reporting deadlines and procedures
Regulates ordinary and urgent occupational accident reporting. It must be read alongside the 2002 forms and the applicable electronic or territorial procedure; historical forms must not be treated as current.
Order TAS/1/2007 · Electronic occupational disease reporting, CEPROSS
Establishes electronic occupational disease reports and their transmission through CEPROSS. It supports recording harm, coordinating information and preventive and epidemiological analysis.
Order TIN/1071/2010 · Workplace opening and resumption notifications
Sets data, deadlines and procedures for notifications of opening or resumption after major changes. In construction, it integrates prevention information from the former prior notice into the contractor’s notification.
Royal Decree 258/1999 · On-board medical care and medicine chests
Regulates medical supplies, medicine-chest management and inspection, training and medical consultation for workers on board. Its purpose is to improve care for accidents and health problems at sea.
Royal Decree 550/2020 · Diving safety: professional and occupational scope
Sets safety conditions for different forms of diving. This entry covers requirements affecting professional work: planning, dive supervision, personnel, equipment and emergency response.
Act 14/1994 · Temporary-work agencies: safety and health duties
Allocates prevention duties between the temporary-work agency and the user undertaking. It requires appropriate training before work starts and restricts assignments to certain hazardous jobs.
Act 20/2007 · Self-employment: prevention and risk coordination
Recognises preventive protection for self-employed workers and specifies duties when they share workplaces with or work for other businesses. It covers cooperation, information, oversight and the right to stop dangerous work.
Royal Decree 1561/1995 · Working time and limits on occupational exposure
It regulates special working-time arrangements and includes health-protection limits for harmful exposures, agricultural work, mining, underground construction, compressed-air work and cold stores. This record selects those provisions and protection for night workers exposed to special risks. Working time is part of prevention, but does not replace hazard elimination or required technical and organisational controls.
Royal Decree 899/2015 · Accreditation and organisation of prevention services
It amends the Prevention Services Regulation on employers personally undertaking prevention and on external services’ resources, accreditation, continuing requirements and registers. The record identifies the 2015 changes and links to the current articles of Royal Decree 39/1997. Accreditation does not remove the duty to maintain the resources and capacity needed for contracted services.
Royal Decree-law 16/2022 · Occupational protection in domestic work
It removes domestic household work from the exclusion in the Occupational Risk Prevention Act and recognises a right to effective protection adapted to domestic work. It also reforms the provision on the State Foundation for Occupational Risk Prevention. This record covers those matters only; contributions, unemployment and termination rules are outside its scope.
Organic Law 3/2007 · Equality, maternity and prevention at work
The equality law introduces sex-related considerations into prevention policy, amends pregnancy and breastfeeding protection, and establishes measures against conduct violating sexual freedom and moral integrity at work. This record focuses on additional provision 12 and Article 48, distinguishing amendments to the Occupational Risk Prevention Act from provisions contained in the equality law itself.
Law 39/1999 · Preventive reform of maternity protection
Article ten rewrote maternity protection in the Occupational Risk Prevention Act, setting out assessment, adaptation, transfer and suspension due to pregnancy risk where no compatible alternative is available. This record explains the 1999 contribution while distinguishing it from current Article 26, subsequently amended by Organic Law 3/2007. It does not cover the law’s full range of leave and work–family measures.
Royal Decree 780/1998: reform of deadlines and qualifications under the Prevention Services Regulation
In 1998 it changed the application dates for certain prevention qualifications and recognition of existing practitioners. Its time windows do not constitute a qualification route open today.
Order ITC/1607/2009: safety, maintenance and inspection of mining equipment
Approves ITC 02.2.01, linking the commissioning of mining equipment with maintenance, documented repairs and periodic technical inspections.
Order ETU/995/2017: mining electrical installations
Approves four instructions under chapter IX of the mining regulation: terminology, common rules, underground installations and potentially explosive atmospheres.
Order TEC/1146/2018: toxic and flammable gases in underground activities
Approves ITC 04.7.06 on assessing and controlling toxic gases in underground activities and extends ITC 05.0.02 to other flammable or explosive gases.
Order of 19 March 1986: participation in mining safety
Develops the chairmanship of safety and hygiene committees and the election and eligibility of mining safety delegates under the Miners’ Statute.
Resolution of 9 June 2008: training for truck and dumper operators
Develops technical specification 2000-1-08 under ITC 02.1.02 and defines minimum preventive training for the mining role, including contractors’ staff performing those tasks.
Resolution of 9 June 2008: training for loader, excavator and crawler tractor operators
Develops technical specification 2001-1-08 under ITC 02.1.02 and defines minimum preventive training for the mining role, including contractors’ staff performing those tasks.
Resolution of 7 October 2008: training for underground face workers, drillers and mining assistants
Develops technical specification 2002-1-08 under ITC 02.1.02 and defines minimum preventive training for the mining role, including contractors’ staff performing those tasks.
Resolution of 18 November 2010: mining training for exploration and specified surface roles
Develops technical specification 2003-1-10 under ITC 02.1.02 and defines minimum preventive training for the mining role, including contractors’ staff performing those tasks.
Resolution of 18 November 2010: mining training for processing plants and common roles
Develops technical specification 2004-1-10 under ITC 02.1.02 and defines minimum preventive training for the mining role, including contractors’ staff performing those tasks.
Law 7/2018 · Occupational safety and health in the Balearic Islands
It regulates the Balearic Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and measures for research, awareness, training and prevention. It also introduces safety and health requirements for grants and public procurement. The regional framework operates within its powers and alongside national prevention legislation.
Law 10/2010 · Promoting occupational safety and health in Castilla-La Mancha
It establishes regional awareness, training and prevention measures alongside support for victims of occupational accidents and diseases. It introduces preventive conditions in public grants and contracts. Its 2025 amendment changes the sanction-related requirement for grant eligibility.
Order of 9 March 1971: General Occupational Safety and Hygiene Ordinance
Contains Spain’s former general occupational safety and hygiene rules. The LPRL and its regulations progressively replaced its titles and chapters; this sheet reconstructs that succession rather than applying the 1971 text in full.
Royal Decree 688/2005: historical regime for mutuas as external prevention services
Regulated organisational, asset and accounting separation between mutuas’ collaboration with Social Security and their former external prevention-service activities. It does not authorise mutuas to provide that service today.
Law 14/1986 · Current occupational-health provision and history of Articles 21 and 22
The General Health Act retains protection, promotion and improvement of occupational health in Article 18(9), with attention to sexual and sex-based harassment. Its former occupational-health chapter, Articles 21 and 22, was repealed in 2011. This entry distinguishes the current public-health mandate from historical rules without treating the entire health statute as OSH legislation.
Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015 · Workers’ Statute: safety and health
The Statute recognises effective protection, preventive training and worker participation. This entry connects these rules with night and shift-work health, disconnection and protection against risks preventing travel to the workplace.
Royal Legislative Decree 1/1995 · Workers’ Statute: repealed OSH predecessor
Preserves the former statutory framework for occupational safety and hygiene, training and night-work protection. It helps trace historical rights and their replacement by the 2015 consolidated statute, alongside development of the OSH Prevention Act.
Act 10/2021 · Remote work: prevention and the right to disconnect
Applies prevention requirements to remote work and specifies how to assess risks without extending the assessment to the rest of the home. It covers psychosocial factors, ergonomics, organisation, accessibility and disconnection.
Royal Decree-Law 28/2020 · Remote work: repealed prevention framework
It was the 2020 framework for prevention and disconnection in regular remote work. This entry explains its historical regime and succession by Act 10/2021; it does not present these rules as an independent current legal basis.
Royal Decree 1644/2008 · Machinery safety and its connection with OSH
It sets health and safety requirements for placing machinery on the market and putting it into service. Its preventive relevance lies in reducing risks through design and providing safe-use information. Product conformity must be coordinated with employers’ duties concerning work equipment.
Royal Decree 656/2017 · Chemical storage: prevention and workers
It approves the APQ chemical-storage regulation and its technical instructions. This entry covers duties linked to worker safety: safe operation, emergencies, training and protection from hazardous chemicals. Examples from ITC APQ-10 concern storage in portable containers.
Royal Decree 809/2021 · Pressure equipment: safe use and personnel
It approves the pressure equipment regulation and ITC EP-1 to EP-7. Its OSH relevance concerns safe operation and maintenance, preparation for inspections, shutdown for serious risk, operator competence and reporting accidents involving personal harm.
Royal Decree 1085/2009 · X-rays: worker protection
It regulates diagnostic X-ray installations and personnel competence. This OSH selection focuses on assessing and controlling occupational exposure, maintaining a written radiation-protection programme, monitoring doses and working conditions, and demonstrating competence.
Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015 · Public employment: prevention, harassment and telework
The Basic Statute of Public Employees recognises effective health and safety protection, protects dignity against harassment and retains prevention duties in telework. This entry brings together those rights, conduct duties and representative oversight of compliance.
Order INT/724/2006 · Civil Guard prevention bodies
Develops the Civil Guard’s prevention organisation through a central service, zone sections and offices in commands and other units. It allocates planning, assessment, emergency, training and health-surveillance coordination tasks.
Resolution of 4 April 2025: medical chests on specified vessels
Adapts medical chests for certain fishing vessels changing classification or operating area and increases supplies on vessels with type A chests and more than 35 crew. It develops specific cases under RD 258/1999.
Royal Decree 598/2015: aligning four prevention regulations with CLP
Aligns occupational risk prevention references with the CLP classification and labelling of substances and mixtures. It affects prevention services, safety signs, carcinogens and chemical agents.
Royal Decree 145/1989: prevention and emergencies involving dangerous goods in ports
Regulates admission, handling and storage of dangerous goods in ports. This sheet selects information exchange, preventive organisation, emergency coordination and training of personnel involved in operations.
Royal Decree 130/2017: occupational safety and health in activities involving explosives
The Explosives Regulation contains specific occupational safety and health duties for factories, storage facilities and professional use. This sheet focuses on assessment, planning, training, coordination and qualification requirements, distinguishing them from public-security and trade controls.
Law 35/2010: preventive reform of temporary agency work
Reformed restrictions on assigning workers to particularly hazardous activities, prevention requirements for temporary-work agencies and protection of vulnerable groups. This sheet documents those specific effects within a much broader labour reform.
Royal Decree 363/1995: hazardous substance classification and transition to REACH/CLP
Approved the former notification, classification, packaging and labelling regime for dangerous substances, referenced by many prevention rules. This sheet explains those antecedents without presenting historical symbols, categories or safety data sheet rules as the current regime.
Royal Decree 1311/2012: training and worker protection when using plant protection products
This OSH selection covers professional qualifications, information for re-entering treated crops and protection during handling and treatments in workplaces. The decree also regulates agricultural and environmental policies not developed in this sheet.
Royal Decree 830/2010: qualifications for biocidal treatments
Regulates qualifications for applicators and technical managers of treatments using specified biocides. It links training, technical responsibility and continuing learning to controlling risks to workers, users and other exposed people.
Royal Decree 2267/2004: industrial fire safety, historical regime
Established fire prevention and protection requirements for industrial establishments. This sheet reconstructs historical design, commissioning and inspection rules and explains the transitional cases under the 2025 regulation.
Law 2/2021: workplace COVID measures and their cessation in 2023
Documents extraordinary workplace measures under article 7 and their labour inspection and infringement arrangements in article 31. They ceased to apply when the health crisis ended in July 2023; general OSH duties remain governed by their own rules.
Order of 31 January 1940 · Historical safety and hygiene regulation
It approved a general regulation protecting workers against occupational risks, covering premises, equipment, scaffolding, hygiene, first aid and information. It is retained as a historical precursor to prevention in Spain. The February 1940 original must be read with the correction published that month and later repeals; it does not establish current preventive duties.
Law 5/2008 · Cantabrian Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
It establishes Cantabria’s scientific and technical prevention body and approves its Statute. It assigns research, assistance, workplace checks and social participation; the 2026 amendment addresses Council procedures and personal data.
Royal Decree 272/2024 · State Foundation for Occupational Risk Prevention
It approves the statutes of the state foundation promoting prevention, regulating its actions, recipients, planning and governance.
Law 7/1993 · Osalan and Basque prevention institutions
It creates Osalan and assigns occupational-harm research, epidemiological surveillance, advice and prevention support, together with social participation and coordination with labour and health authorities.
Law 14/2007 · Occupational Safety and Health Institute of Galicia
It organises Galicia’s technical prevention institute, its research and advisory functions and social-partner participation. Its current name derives from the 2018 amendment.
Law 10/2006 · Andalusian Institute for Occupational Risk Prevention
It establishes the Andalusian Institute for research, training and promotion of a prevention culture, with participation by public authorities, employers and trade unions.
Order TAS/1974/2005 · Tripartite Council for mutual-insurer prevention activities
It establishes a participation and monitoring body for mutual insurers’ prevention activities within Social Security, governing proposals, reports and coordination with the National Occupational Safety and Health Commission.
Law 4/2004 · Asturian Institute for Occupational Risk Prevention
It governs the Asturian Institute, its prevention policies and the occupational health, safety and working-environment plan, including research, advice and cooperation with the Labour Inspectorate.
Law 2/2004 · Valencian Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
It establishes INVASSAT as a scientific and technical prevention body, regulating research, advice, epidemiological surveillance and participation bodies that implement and monitor occupational safety and health policies.
Royal Decree 577/1982: the INSST’s structure and occupational prevention functions
Sets out the organisation and technical prevention functions of the former INSHT, now INSST. It covers accident and occupational disease research, information, training, advice and support for the Labour Inspectorate. It remains part of the institutional framework, while the current mission must be read alongside LPRL sections 8 and 13 and transfers of powers to the autonomous communities.
Order of 25 January 1985: participation and operation of the INSST General Council
Approves the rules for the Institute’s body representing trade unions, employers and the administration. It governs functions, meetings, representation, committees and decisions. It concerns public governance of prevention, rather than a company’s health and safety committee.
Resolution of 17 February 2004: the initial OSH management model for Spain’s General State Administration
Approved the common OSH management model for the General State Administration, its manual and basic procedures. It required departments and public bodies to develop their own instruments using that model. Its present value is to explain the system’s origin; an express update followed in 2013.
Order TAS/2383/2006: reporting from the mutuas’ Tripartite Council to the CNSST
Adds a duty to inform the National Commission for Safety and Health at Work about the Tripartite Council’s proposals and reports concerning occupational prevention activities. It supports institutional cooperation; it neither changes Council membership nor creates a prevention service.
Order DEF/3573/2008: the Ministry of Defence’s prevention service structure
Develops the prevention structure provided for by Royal Decree 1755/2007. It establishes a Coordination Unit, organises sections and services, and sets criteria for service size, disciplines and qualifications. It explains prevention organisation within Defence without replacing the rules applicable to each personnel group and activity.
Resolution of 15 November 2013: updating OSH management in Spain’s General State Administration
Approves the SGPRL-AGE-2013 update and requires departments and public bodies to adapt their manual, prevention plan and procedures. It seeks to complete implementation and integrate responsibilities and continuous improvement. Model documents provide reference and guidance for adaptation to each organisation.
Resolution of 5 November 2010: historical instructions on mutuas and prevention companies
Issued transitional instructions for mutuas as shareholders in prevention companies following the 2010 LPRL amendment. It addressed clients, sole-shareholder status, asset transactions, controls and separation of activities. It does not authorise mutuas today to operate external prevention services or hold shares in prevention companies: LPRL section 32 changed from 2015.
Law 16/2003 · Occupational health within public health
The law includes protecting and promoting occupational health among public-health services. This record traces that rule from its original 2003 wording, through the 2007 amendment concerning female workers’ risks and needs, to the reorganisation of Article 11 in 2011.
Act of 30 January 1900 · Early occupational accident prevention
It combined accident liability and compensation with preventive measures: study of protective devices, a technical catalogue, safety and hygiene rules and display of the legislation. This entry preserves that historical contribution, focusing on its preventive provisions.
Act of 10 January 1922 · Prevention and inspection in accident law
It reformed accident legislation and included a chapter on prevention and vocational rehabilitation. Its preventive provisions organised technical proposals, inspection, penalties and experimentation. It is presented as historical background, not a current framework of duties.
Royal Decree 144/2016: safety of ATEX products used at work
Sets health and safety requirements for equipment and protective systems intended for potentially explosive atmospheres. Its occupational relevance lies in preventing ignition sources and limiting explosions in equipment used by workers. It regulates products and their conformity; workplace assessment and worker protection are addressed additionally by Royal Decree 681/2003.
Royal Decree 400/1996: historical ATEX equipment safety rules
Was Spain’s safety framework for equipment and protective systems in potentially explosive atmospheres under Directive 94/9/EC. This entry supports interpretation of older documentation and the development of categories and essential requirements, without presenting it as current marketing legislation.
Royal Decree 1407/1992: historical PPE marketing requirements
Regulated the design, certification and marketing of personal protective equipment under Directive 89/686/EEC. It remains relevant to older PPE documentation and the origins of CE marking. Spain expressly repealed it in 2020, while Regulation (EU) 2016/425 had already become generally applicable on 21 April 2018.
Royal Decree 1254/1999: historical major-accident prevention and workplace emergencies
Was Spain’s Seveso II framework for controlling major accidents involving dangerous substances. This entry focuses on prevention policy, safety management, staff training and participation, and internal emergency planning. These historical duties expressly connected with the LPRL and coordination with contractors.
Royal Decree 1196/2003: historical self-protection against major accidents
Approved the civil-protection directive on major accidents involving dangerous substances. Section 3 developed prevention policy, safety management and internal emergency plans, including worker and contractor training and participation and emergency organisation. It is retained here as an occupational-protection historical reference.
Royal Decree 487/2022: Legionella and protection of exposed workers
Regulates Legionella prevention and control in installations capable of exposing people. Section 4 expressly refers to the LPRL and protection against biological and chemical agents. This entry addresses staff operating, maintaining, checking, cleaning or disinfecting these installations and the controls needed to limit their exposure.
Royal Decree 865/2003: historical Legionella prevention at work
Regulated public-health measures against Legionella from 2003 until its replacement in 2023. It expressly referred to workplace protection from biological and chemical agents and safety requirements for treatment operators. This entry supports reading programmes, records and actions from that period.
Royal Decree 989/2015 · Occupational safety in pyrotechnics and ammunition
The regulation includes express prevention duties for workshops and storage sites and a specific instruction on workplace explosions. This page covers those occupational duties; the 2025 security amendment is not presented as a new wording of ITC 14.
Royal Decree 563/2010 · Historical prevention rules for pyrotechnics and ammunition
The predecessor of the 2015 regulation linked workshops and storage sites to occupational prevention and introduced ITC 14 on explosions. Its duties are described as legislative history; the current reference is Royal Decree 989/2015, subject to its reservations for earlier situations.
Royal Decree 1836/1999 · Historical worker protection in nuclear and radioactive installations
It governed the holder’s responsibility, personnel competence and radiation protection in nuclear and radioactive installations. Royal Decree 1217/2024 expressly repealed it. This page retains its historical prevention duties and explains continuity of certain authorisations and procedures without treating the earlier text as generally in force.
Royal Decree 1217/2024 · Radiation protection in installations and work activities
It replaces the 1999 installation and 2006 high-activity source regulations. Alongside protection of installation personnel, it regulates outside undertakings, naturally occurring radioactive materials, workplace radon and aircrew. This page selects those duties and connects them with Royal Decree 1029/2022.
Royal Decree 229/2006 · High-activity radioactive sources: historical prevention rules
It established controls for high-activity sealed sources, training and responses to losses and incidents to prevent unintended exposure. Orphan-source rules were separated in 2020 and the rest of the decree was repealed in 2024. Its deadlines and frequencies are presented as historical rules, not independent current duties.
Royal Decree 451/2020 · Worker protection against orphan radioactive sources
It prevents unintended exposure from radioactive sources outside regulatory control, particularly in metal recycling and transit locations. It requires monitoring, safe isolation, specialist intervention and documented training. Its OSH connection is express, although it also protects the public and environment.
ILO Convention 148 · Air pollution and noise: obligations accepted by Spain
The 1977 Working Environment Convention covers air pollution, noise and vibration, but Spain declared acceptance only of the obligations concerning air pollution and noise. It entered into force for Spain on 17 December 1981. This page retains the full official title while clearly delimiting Spain’s commitment.
How to read these records
Each record identifies the instrument, its type and territorial scope, publication and effective dates, verified status and official links. Repealed legislation is retained as historical material. “Amended” describes its history and can coexist with “in force”.
Sources and updates
For Spain, the official source is the Boletín Oficial del Estado. Reviews distinguish the publication of a change from its effective date and from administrative updates to the database record. English and Catalan translations are editorial and retain the original official title.
Boletín Oficial del EstadoOn the blog
The 5 key values of the workplace safety risk identification and assessment reportEditorial information
Publication date: 14 November 2026.
Editorial responsibility: Sabentis editorial team.
Editorial review by Pablo RodríguezLinkedIn
Executive Vice President of the International ORP Foundation and Chief Financial Officer of Sabentis.
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