The overall purpose of the guidelines for pregnant women is to ensure a good and safe working environment so that the pregnant employee in a safe and proper way can continue to work through pregnancy to maternity leave.
To ensure a safe workplace, the pregnant woman, colleagues, and immediate superior must enter into a binding cooperation, which is to observe the rules for the work of pregnant women.
Pregnant women are urged to notify their pregnancy in the early stage of their pregnancy.
It must be possible to have a workplace in a non-radioactive lab.
The possibility of exemption from work with substances of special hazards for pregnant women, any element of risk must as far as possible be eliminated.
Heavy lifting, wrong working positions and straining events of monotonous repetitive work should be avoided.
A pregnant employee who feels uncomfortable in a specific work situation can be assigned to other tasks.
If you are pregnant, you have a further responsibility for checking the workplace instructions of the substances you work with. It is very important to check whether to avoid the reagent when pregnant. If you need to use a reagent that you are not allowed to handle, you can ask a colleague for help to handle the product.
KIROS has a list of chemicals which are unsafe for pregnant women. The list can be found using advanced search.