SAFETY, HYGIENE AND HEALTH AT WORK

Hygiene, Safety and Health at Work are concepts and standards that must be understood and imposed by both the employer and the workers, as Portuguese law enshrines such principles where all workers have the right to assistance and fair compensation. , when victims of a professional accident at work.

It is essential that companies or their employees are aware of their rights and obligations when an accident at work or an occupational disease occurs, and to this end, victims of work accidents have a maximum period of 1 year to claim compensation by checking The count starts from the day of clinical discharge.

Our specialist team in this jurisdictional segment provides legal advice and assistance, both to employers and workers, seeking at an initial stage a conciliation between the parties involved, or already at a contentious stage through judicial representation.

Main areas of intervention:

• defining situations that could be considered accidents at work or accidents on the way to or from work
• assessing and analysing the employer's or worker's liability as a result of a breach of rules or culpable action in terms of hygiene, safety and health at work
• assessment of property damage to determine compensation for absolute or temporary incapacity
•  assessment for capital compensation and pension for permanent incapacity for work
• death benefit
• permanent incapacity benefit
• supplementary allowance for third party assistance
• allowance for professional retraining of the injured person due to inability to continue their previous activity
• assessment of non-pecuniary damage due to permanent incapacity
• assessment of non-pecuniary damage due to aesthetic damage
• assessment of non-pecuniary damage due to physical and psychological suffering
• determining disability 
• calculating compensation for accidents at work
• counselling family members in the event of death due to an accident at work
• managing the Labour Accident Fund with a view to paying compensation owed to replace the employer as a result of insolvency proceedings, company recovery proceedings or economic incapacity
• revision of incapacity due to aggravation

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION

• Regulation with Regulatory Authorities (INFARMED, National Authority for Medicines and Health Products, National Institute for Industrial Property, Competition Authority and Directorate-General for Economic Activities)
• Pharmaceutical Industry (Pharmaceutical Sector Associations)
• Cosmetics & Food Supplements Industry
• Licensing of activities
• Commercial Policies
• Producer Liability
• Pharmaceutical Patent Law

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