Is a written risk assessment mandatory in Kyrgyzstan, and how often must it be reviewed?

Yes, in the Kyrgyz form. The Law "On Labour Protection" No. 82 of 2026 (Article 19) and the Labour Code (Article 204) require employers to carry out the "assessment of occupational risks by working conditions (workplace attestation)", a documented assessment of the factors at each workplace. Neither text sets how often it must be repeated, so confirm the current procedure with the labour inspection and in any case review it after changes and accidents.

Short answer

• Legal basis: Law No. 82 of 5 June 2026 defines the assessment of occupational risks by working conditions (оценка профессиональных рисков по условиям труда, also called аттестация рабочих мест) in Article 1 and makes it an employer duty in Article 19, "followed by certification of labour protection work in the organisation". Labour Code Article 204(2)(9) repeats the duty.
• Content: recording, analysis and overall assessment of all factors of the work environment and work process at a specific workplace that affect health and capacity to work.
• Purpose: plan health-protection measures and confirm or cancel benefits and compensation for harmful and heavy work.
• Interval: not set in Law No. 82 or the Labour Code; no current Kyrgyz attestation procedure was found in the official legal database in November 2026. Confirm before planning.
• Good practice: also keep task-based risk assessments (method statements, job safety analyses) for activities the attestation does not capture.

What the Kyrgyz assessment is, and what it is not

Article 1 of Law No. 82 defines occupational risk as the probability of damage to health, taking into account the severity of the consequences, resulting from unfavourable factors of the work environment and work process. The assessment of occupational risks by working conditions is defined as a system for recording, analysing and comprehensively assessing all such factors at a specific workplace, in order to carry out health-improving measures and to confirm or cancel the right to benefits and compensation for harmful and heavy work.

This is the post-Soviet workplace attestation under a new name. Attestations of this type typically rely on measuring factors such as noise, vibration, dust, chemicals, microclimate and lighting, and on rating the heaviness and intensity of work, against hygienic standards; the result is an assessment of the conditions at each workplace and a plan of measures. In practice the results feed the lists of workers for compulsory medical examinations, PPE issue and compensations such as extra leave or milk.

It differs from the EU and Turkish risk assessment:

How to apply it on a project

A sensible approach for a multinational employer is to run both:

1. Statutory attestation for each permanent workplace, carried out under the applicable Kyrgyz procedure (including any accredited laboratory measurements), with the results kept on file for inspectors and used to set PPE, compensations and medical examination lists. The labour protection service organises it (model regulation of 2004).
2. Task risk assessments for non-routine and high-risk activities (work at height, confined spaces, lifting, hot work, energy isolation), written to the company's ISO 45001 or EU-style method.

Review both after an accident or occupational disease, after a change of process, equipment or substances, when an inspector orders it, and when new information shows a risk was underestimated.

Common mistakes

• Assuming no assessment is required because Kyrgyz law does not use the words "risk assessment" in the EU sense.
• Treating the attestation as complete coverage of safety hazards.
• Copying a review interval from Russia, Kazakhstan or Türkiye instead of confirming the Kyrgyz procedure.

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Standards and further reading

• Law of the Kyrgyz Republic No. 82 "On Labour Protection", 5 June 2026 (Article 1, points 5 and 10; Article 19): official text.
• Labour Code of the Kyrgyz Republic No. 23, 23 January 2025 (Article 204): official text.
• ISO 45001, occupational health and safety management systems (hazard identification and risk assessment).
• Türkiye: Regulation on OSH Risk Assessment (İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Risk Değerlendirmesi Yönetmeliği), 29 December 2012, Article 12: mevzuat.gov.tr.

This article is general occupational safety and health information prepared by the excodex editorial team. It does not replace the applicable legislation, standards, manufacturers' instructions or the assessment of a competent OSH professional or occupational physician.