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ACT OF REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA

NUMBER 1 YEAR 1970
REGARDING
SAFETY

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA

Considering: a. that every worker is entitled to protection of their well-being

in the performance of their work which will lead to an increase
in national productivity;
b. that the safety of every person in the workplace must be
insured;
c. that every source of production should be used and applied
safely and efficiently;
d. that in this regard it is necessary to make every effort to
develop labor protection standards;
e. that in the development of these standards an act is deemed
necessary which contains general provisions for safety which
are compatible with social changes, industrialization, and
changing techniques and technology.

In the view of: 1. Articles 5, 20 and 27 of the Constitution 1945;

2. Articles 9 and 10 of Act No. 14/1969 on the Basic Provision of
Labor (State Gazette No. 55/1969, Supplementary State
Gazette No. 2912).

With the approval of the House of Representatives;

DECIDED

1. To repeal : Safety Act of 1910 (State Gazette No. 406)

2. To enact : Safety Act

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 CHAPTER I
TERMINOLOGY

Article 1
In this Act the following definitions apply:
1. Workplace means any room or space, closed or open, mobile or stationary,
where an employee works, or which is often entered by an employee on behalf
of an undertaking, or where a source of danger is present as specified in Article
2.
Including all rooms, site, yard and surrounding that are part of or connect with
workplaces.
2. Manager means any person charged with the direct management of a
workplace or independent part thereof.
3. Employer means:
a. any person or corporation carrying out his or its own business in a
workplace to that end,
b. any person or corporation, who or which independently carries out
business owned by another and to that end uses a workplace;
c. any person or corporation in Indonesia, who or which represents a person
or corporation as specified in a and b above should the employer reside
outside Indonesia.
4. Director means the official appointed by the Minister of Manpower to enforce
this Act.
5. Safety Inspector means a technical officer of the Department of Labor with
special qualifications appointed by the Minister of Manpower.
6. Safety Expert means a person with special qualifications from outside the
Development of Manpower appointed by the Minister of Manpower to
supervise the observance of this Act.

CHAPTER II
SCOPE

Article 2
1. This Act regulates safety in all workplaces on land, underground, on the water
surface, underwater, and in the air, within the jurisdiction of the Republic of
Indonesia.
2. Verse (1) shall apply to workplaces where:

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 a. machines, apparatus, tools, equipment or installations are manufactured,
constructed, tested, used or applied, which are dangerous or may cause an
accident, fire or explosion;
b. materials or goods which are explosive, flammable, corrosive, poisonous,
cause infection or have a high temperature, are manufactured, processed,
used, applied, marketed, transported or stored;
c. assembly, repair, maintenance, clearing or demolition of house or any
building or other construction, including waterworks, channels,
underground tunnels, etc, or preparatory works are being performed;
d. activities are performed in the fields or agriculture, plantations, forest
clearance and exploitation, the processing of timber or other forest
products, cattle raising, fisheries, and health;
e. activities are performed in the fields of mining, the processing of gold,
silver, other metals or ores, precious, semi-precious and other stones, gas,
oil or other minerals, above ground, underground or underwater;
f. goods, animals or humans are transported on land, through tunnels, by
water, underwater and in the air;
g. the loading and unloading of cargoes in or on board ships, ports, quays,
docks, stations or warehouses is performed;
h. diving, the extraction of products, and other activities is performed
underwater;
i. activities are performed at a height above the surface of land or water;
j. activities are performed in tanks, wells, cavities or excavations;
k. activities are performed involving danger of being buried, struck, falling
or getting trapped in a cavity or excavation, being swept away by water or
tumbling into water;
l. activities are performed in tanks, wells, cavities, or excavations;
m. temperature variations, humidity, dust, dirt, fire, smoke, vapor, gas
draughts, variable weather conditions, rays or radiance, sound or
vibration are present or in circulation;
n. Waste or garbage are deposited or being destroyed;
o. activities are performed in the field or transmission or receiving by radio,
radar, television or telephone;
p. activities are performed in the field of education, training, experiment,
research or making use of technical apparatus in connection therewith;
q. electricity is generated transformed or distributed, or gas, oil or water are
raised, stored or piped;
r. the performance of a film or play or provision of other recreation, and
electrical or mechanical equipment is used.
3. Other spaces or yards wherein the safety or health of people working or present
in such spaces or yards could be endangered may be included as workplace by
legislative regulation modifying the provisions of (2) above.
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 CHAPTER III
SAFETY CONDITIONS

Article 3
1. Safety conditions shall be prescribed by legislative regulation to:
a. prevent and reduce the possibility of accidents;
b. prevent and reduce the possibility of fires;
c. prevent and reduce the possibility of danger from explosion;
d. provide means of escape from fire or other danger;
e. provide first aid in case of injury;
f. ensure that workers are provided with protective equipment;
g. prevent or control the incidence or spread of temperature variations, dust,
dirt, smoke, vapor, gas, draughts, variable weather conditions, rays or
radiance, sound and vibration;
h. prevent or control the incidence of occupational injury, whether physical
or psychological, poisoning, infection or contagious;
i. provide adequate and suitable illumination;
j. provide satisfactory temperature and humidity levels;
k. provide satisfactory air circulation;
l. maintain cleanliness, health and good order;
m. achieve the unity of worker and equipment, environment, work methods
and processes;
n. safeguard and facilitate the transportation of humans, animals, plants or
goods,
o. safeguard and maintain construction of all kinds;
p. safeguard facilities for the loading, unloading, handling and storage of
goods;
q. prevent shock by electric current;
r. adapt and develop safety measures in accordance with the requirements
of decreasing accident rates.
2. The provisions of (1) above may be modified by legislative regulation to
conform to future scientific and technological developments and new
inventions.

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 Article 4
1. Safety conditions in relation to the planing, production, transportation,
circulation, marketing, installation, use, application, maintenance and storage of
materials, goods, technical products and means of production, which involve or
may cause danger of accident, shall be prescribed by legislative regulations.
2. Such safety conditions shall be based upon technical scientific principles and
arranged in a collection of orderly, clear and practical provisions having
reference to various activities, including those concerning: construction;
processing and manufacturing materials; protective equipment; testing and
validation; packaging; identification on materials, goods, technical products and
means of production, to ensure the safety of the goods themselves; and the
workers concerned and the public safety.
3. The provisions of (1) and (2) above may be modified by legislative regulation
and conform to and fulfill the above safety conditions which shall be prescribed
by legislative regulations.

CHAPTER IV
SUPERVISION

Article 5
1. The Director shall carry out the general implementation of this Act while Safety
Inspection and Safety Experts have the duty of supervising the observance of
this Act and assisting in its implementation.
2. The authority and obligations of the Director, safety inspectors and Safety
Experts, in the implementation of this Act shall be laid down by legislative
regulations.

Article 6
1. Any person disagreeing with a decision of the Director may lodge an appeal to
an Appeal Committee.
2. The procedure for lodging an appeal, the composition and task of such Appeal
Committee, etc., shall be prescribed by the Minister of Manpower.
3. The decision of such an Appeal Committee shall be final.

Article 7
This employer shall pay retribution as meant in the legislative regulation, for the
supervisory service provided for under this Act.

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 Article 8
1. A manager shall be responsible for arranging examinations of workers being
engaged or transferred, regarding their health, mental condition and physical
ability in relation to the type of work to be performed.
2. A manager shall be responsible for arranging the periodical physical
examinations of all workers for whom he is responsible, by a physical provided
by employer and approved by the Director.
3. Health examination standards shall be prescribed by legislative regulation.

CHAPTER V
GUIDANCE

Article 9
1. A Manager shall demonstrate and explain to every worker:
a. The condition and dangers which might occur in the workplace
b. All safety devices and protective equipment which are obligatory to be
provided in the workplace
c. The personal protective equipment provided for the personnel concerned;
d. The safety standard and conduct related to carrying out the work.
2. A manager may only employ a person after being satisfied that he has
understood the conditions outlined above.
3. A manager shall provide his workers with training in accident prevention and
fire fighting, the promotion of safety and health and rendering first aid.
4. A manager shall fulfill and obey all the conditions and provisions in force for
his business and workplace.

CHAPTER VI
SAFETY AND HEALTH SUPPORT COMMITTEES

Article 10
1. The Minister of Manpower shall have authority to set up Safety and Health
Support Committees to develop cooperation, mutual understanding and
effective participation on the part of the employer or manager and workers in
the workplace, in fulfillment of their tasks and obligations in the field of safety
and health, for the promotion of productivity.
2. The composition of the Safety and Health Committees, their tasks, etc, shall be
prescribed by the Minister of Manpower.
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 CHAPTER VII
ACCIDENTS

Article 11
1. A manager shall report every accident occurring in a workplace for which he is
responsible to the official appointed by the Minister of Manpower.
2. The procedures regarding the reporting of accidents and for their investigation
by the official referred to in verse (1) above shall be prescribed by legislative
regulation.

CHAPTER VIII
OBLIGATION AND RIGHTS OF WORKERS

Article 12
Legislative regulation shall lay down the obligations and rights of workers to:
a. provide accurate information upon request by a Safety Inspector Expert
b. use obligatory personal protective equipment
c. fulfill and obey obligatory safety and health requirements
d. request the manager to carry out all obligatory safety and health requirements;
e. raise objection to work within the limits of his responsibility if, in his opinion,
doubts exist concerning the provision or condition of obligatory safety, health
and personal protective equipment,

CHAPTER IX
OBLIGATIONS WHEN ENTERING A WORKPLACE

Article 13
Any person entering a workplace shall obey all the safety instructions and use the
personal protective equipment required by law.

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 CHAPTER X
OBLIGATION OF THE MANAGER

Article 14
A Manager shall:
a. Post notices in writing in places where such notices are easily visible and
legible, according to the directions of the Safety Inspector or Safety Expert,
concerning all the obligatory conditions of safety and health in the workplace
under his management; also a copy of this Act and all the regulations giving
effect to its conditions.
b. exhibit, at the workplace for which he is responsible, the obligatory safety
posters and other guidance information in places easily visible or legible,
according to the directions of the Safety Inspector or Safety Expert.
c. provide free of charge to workers under his control and any other person
entering the workplace, all the obligatory personal protective equipment
together with the necessary instructions for making use thereof, according to the
directions of the Safety Inspector or Safety Experts.

CHAPTER XI
CONCLUDING PROVISION

Article 15
1. The administration of the provision of the aforementioned articles shall be
further prescribed for the legislative regulation.
2. The legislative regulation as meant in (1) above may prescribe penalties for
contravention of its provisions by imprisonment of up to three months by a fine
of up to Rp 100,000 (one hundred thousand rupiah).
3. Such punishable acts shall be minor offenses.

Article 16
An employer making use of a workplace at the time of enactment of this Act shall
within one year thereof come into compliance with the provisions of this Act.

Article 17
Until such time that the legislative regulation for administration of the provisions of
this Act are promulgated, the safety regulations in force at the time this Act was
enacted shall remain in force provided that they are not in conflict this Act.

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 Article 18
This Act shall be called “The Safety Act” and shall come into force on the day of its
promulgation. In order that everyone may take cognizance of this, the promulgation
of this Act is herewith ordered by publication in the State Gazette of the Republic of
Indonesia.

Stipulated in Jakarta
On 12 January 1970
President of the Republic of Indonesia

signed

SOEHARTO

Promulgated in Jakarta
On 12 January 1970
State Secretary of the Republic of Indonesia

signed

ALAMSYAH

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 EXPLANATION OF ACT OF REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
NUMBER 1 YEAR 1970
REGARDING
SAFETY

GENERAL EXPLANATION
Present Velligheldreglement, which is valid from 1970 (stbl. No. 406) and has some
changes on meaningless issues from that time, is actually out ouf date and needs
revision that adjusts to other occupational health and safety regulations and
development of technical progress, technology and industrialization in our country
nowadays and in the future.
Machines, tools, new equipments and other complicated objects are widely used at
present, new technical materials are extensively processed and used, as well as
mechanization and electrification is extended everywhere.
With the progress of industrialization, mechanization, electrification and
modernization, then in many points increasing operational working intensity and
worker’s working period occurs.
These matters need intensive energy mobilization from the workers. Exhaustion, less
attention to other points, loss of balance and others are the result and cause accident.
Toxic materials, machines, tools, equipments, and other complicated objects, as well
as terrible working behaviors, lack of skill and work training, insufficient knowledge
of new hazardous sources, are always dangerous sources and occupational diseases.
Then it is understood that we need progressive and accurate knowledge of
occupational health and safety.
Afterwards, with the progressive knowledge we will achieve good and realistic
security, which is a very important factor to give a calm feeling, working enthusiasm
to the related worker and these things can increase working quality, production and
working productivity.
Supervision based on Veligheidsreglement is completely repressive.
In this Act we carry out a significant revision in changing it towards preventive
action.
In practice and experience, we feel the need of a good arrangement prior to
formations of companies, factories or workshops, because it is extremely difficult to
change or replace what had been built or installed in to fulfill the relevant
requirement of occupational safety.
This new regulation if compared to the previous one, receives many significant
revision, in its contain as well as the format and systems.
The revision and development are related to:
1. Extension of scope;
2. Alteration from repressive to preventive supervision;
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3. More distinction of technical formulation;
4. Adjustment of administration as needed by supervision implementation;
5. Addition of arrangement of occupational safety establishment to managers and
workers;
6. Addition of arrangement of annual retribution collection.

ARTICLE-BY-ARTICLE EXPLANATION

Article 1
Verse (1)
In this formulation scope of validity of the Act is clearly determined by three
components:
1. Place where working for certain business takes place;
2. Presence of worker who works there;
3. Presence of occupational hazard in that place.
Worker does not have to always work in certain place from day to day.
They often have to enter rooms at certaint times to control, adjust, perform
installations; afterwards they go out and work in other places.
The installations can be hazardous sources; hence they must fulfill the valid
occupational safety requirement, in order that everyone including worker who enters
and or does something there, eventhough for a short period, is guaranteed for his
safety.
Such installations are for instance transformator houses, automatic working water
pump installation, radio installation rooms, high voltage electricity and so on.
Sometimes hazardous sources have a broadening sphere of influence. With
stipulation in this verse this sphere is included and security actions can be taken. This
point also guarantees public interest.
As an example is a factory that processes hazardous chemical substances and uses as
well as discharges a large amount of water containing hazardous materials.
If such wastewater runs or is discharged directly into a river, then the river water
becomes dangerous and can affect human health, livestock, fish and vegetation
growth.
Therefore for wastewater object we have to use definition of worker as stipulated in
the Act regarding Principle Regulation of Worker, thus we do not need to include that
definition in this Act.
Business as implied in this Act do not always have to have economic or financial
motive, but can be in form of social activities such as workshops in technical schools,
recreation activity and hospital, where they use dangerous electrical and or
mechanical installation.
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Verse (2)
Self-explanation.

Verse (3)
Self-explanation.

Verse (4)
Self-explanation.

Verse (5)
Self-explanation.

Verse (6)
For the implementation of this Act, we need supervision and hence we need
supervisor staffs, which are quite in large quantity and have high quality.
It is not only that we need expertise and theoretic supervision in various
specialization sectors, but they also have to have many experiences in the area.
Such staff is not acquired and hard to be developed in Department of Manpower
only.
Therefore by stipulations in this verse Minister of Manpower can appoint experts as
intended from the government and or private instances to perform the precise
operational personnel.
So Minister of Manpower can decentralize implementation of supervision based on
adherence to this Act extensively, whereas the National Policy is still under his
responsibility and authority, hence the implementation is guaranteed as uniform and
well proportioned throughout Indonesia.

Article 2
Verse (1)
Minister as stipulated in this Act follows community development and technical
progress, technology and always adjust to development of industrialization process in
our country in National Development framework.
Afterwards organic regulations will be issued, which are divided upon technical areas
as well as sectoral industrial areas.
Following this Act, occupational safety regulations will be enacted in the sector of
electricity, steam, radiation and others, as well as sectoral occupational safety in land,
sea or sky.

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Verse (2)
In this verse hazardous sources known at present are detailed, which are related to:
1. Condition of machines, equipment, working tools and other tools, materials and
others;
2. Environment;
3. Work characteristics;
4. Working way;
5. Production process.

Verse (3)
By stipulation in this verse it is possible to conduct revisions of details as intended
according to new findings in the future, hence implementation of this Act still
develops.

Article 3
Verse (1)
In this verse objectives and targets are stated clearly, which have to be fulfilled by the
incoming occupational safety requirement.

Verse (2)
Self-explanation.

Article 4
Verse (1)
Occupational safety requirement regarding planning and production is firstly given
to the producer of the product, thus the transportation of products and others later
are not risky to the workers and public, then to the subsequent participated
companies that transport, supply, trade, install, use or apply, maintain and store.
The above requirement is valid to people coming from abroad.

Verse (2)
In this verse stipulations that have to be fulfilled by the intended requirements are
stipulated precisely.

Verse (3)
Self-explanation.

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 Article 5
Self-explanation.

Article 6
An Appeal Committee is a Technical Committee with members consists of experts
from required sectors.

Article 7
Self-explanation.

Article 8
Self-explanation.

Article 9
Self-explanation.

Article 10
Self-explanation.

Verse (1)
The task of Safety and Health Support Committee is to give consideration and assist
in implementation of accident prevention effort in the related companies and also to
give effective explanation to the related workers.

Verse (2)
The Safety and Health Support Committee is a Body that consists of elements that
accept the job, offer the job, and the Government (three parties).

Article 11
Self-explanation.

Article 12
Self-explanation.

Article 13

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Definition of any person here is everybody who has or has no relation with works in
the workplace.

Article 14
Self-explanation.

Article 15
Self-explanation.

Article 16
Self-explanation.

Article 17
Occupational Safety Regulations, which are stipulated based on Veligheidreglement
1910, are regarded stipulated based on this Act provided that they are not in conflict
with this Act.

Article 18
Self-explanation.

SUPPLEMENT TO STATE GAZETTE OF REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA NUMBER

1918

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