When is a firm obliged to hire a safety technician?
With the enactment of the new law 4488/2017 on labor, every company that employs staff has the obligation to report in detail the responsible Safety Technician in the annual staff list:
Depending on their activity, companies are divided into three risk categories:
| A | B | Γ |
| Mines | Leather industries/Other Textile Industries | Agriculture |
| Mines |
Livestock | |
| Pesticide industries of explosive insecticides, fireworks | Manufacturers of rubber candles, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, photographic material, etc. | Trade |
| Textile industries (dyehouses, printing presses, finishing plants) |
Transfers from line maintenance workshops |
Brokers and agents |
| Chemical industries | Oil and coal producers | Focus |
| Quarries | Cement industries | Hotels |
| Oil refining | Manufacture of finished metal products (tools, pipes) | Transports |
| LPG bottling | Food & Beverage Industries | Warehousing |
| Manufacture of asbestos | Tobacco industries | Communications |
| First iron processing | Paper and furniture wood industry | Banks |
| Shipbuilding | Forestry, deforestation | Insurance |
| Electricity, Gas | Thira, fishermen, salt pans | Education |
| Petroleum by-products | Rentals | |
| Refrigerated storage | Medical | |
| Services |