Safety technician for companies — external occupational safety service (BTS)
We provide a safety technician certified by the National Labour Inspectorate — an external BTS under Act No. 124/2006 Coll., across Slovakia.
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- Bezpečnostný technik s osvedčením NIP pridelený vašej firme
- Vstupný audit a posúdenie rizík
- Kompletná dokumentácia BOZP — vypracovanie aj aktualizácie
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What a safety technician does and what the occupational safety service is
The occupational safety service (BTS) is a professional service provided to the employer by a safety technician. Under § 22 ods. 1 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. it is an advisory service covering professional, methodological, organisational, supervisory, coordinating and educational tasks in ensuring occupational safety and health protection — in particular regarding the adequacy of workspaces and structures, work processes and procedures, work equipment and the working environment.
The Act adds that the occupational safety service shapes the attitudes of the employer, managers and employees towards safety at work. In practice this means a safety technician is not merely the person who fills in forms — it is someone who walks your workplaces, sees what actually happens there and speaks up before something goes wrong.
Under § 22 ods. 2 the tasks of the occupational safety service are performed by the safety technician and, where needed, by a further specialist in prevention and protection in a specific area. Under § 23 ods. 1 a safety technician is a natural person holding a valid certificate of professional competence of a safety technician issued by the National Labour Inspectorate. The certificate is not for life: under § 23 ods. 9 the safety technician must complete refresher training within five years and a further one always within five years of the previous training. In everyday Slovak the same role is commonly called „technik BOZP“ — the Act itself names it bezpečnostný technik, the safety technician.
- risk assessment — identifying hazards and proposing measures for specific workplaces and activities
- OHS documentation — preparing, maintaining and updating internal rules and records
- employee training — initial and repeated, including managers
- workplace inspections — regular safety checks with a written record
- occupational accidents — investigating causes, registration and the duty to report
- cooperation with the PZS — under § 21 ods. 7 the BTS cooperates with the occupational health service and with employee representatives
The occupational safety service is a service we deliver to you. It is not an obligation we take off your hands: under § 21 ods. 7 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll., neither establishing the BTS nor having its tasks performed by a supplier affects the employer's obligations or liability for ensuring the safety and health of employees at work. Our goal is to enable you to meet those obligations — not to make you stop thinking about them.
When a company must have a safety technician and when an external one is enough
The obligation is in § 21 ods. 3: the employer must ensure the occupational safety service for its employees. The Act sets no headcount threshold — the obligation applies from the very first employee. Only the extent to which it must be fulfilled differs.
The Act gives preference to in-house staff: to perform the BTS the employer should designate a sufficient number of its own qualified employees in an employment or comparable relationship and be adequately equipped technically and with instruments for the purpose. However, if having regard to the size of the organisation, the number of employees, working conditions and the distribution of risks it does not have enough qualified employees, it must under § 21 ods. 4 contractually arrange the performance of the BTS through a supplier. That is precisely the external occupational safety service.
For most small and medium-sized companies an external safety technician is the only sensible solution — an in-house employee with a certificate, refresher training and equipment is disproportionately expensive at ten or thirty people. The Act anticipates this and expressly permits supplier-based performance.
The supplier, however, cannot be just anyone. Under § 21 ods. 8 the BTS may be performed on a supplier basis only by a natural person who is an entrepreneur or by a legal person holding an authorisation issued by the National Labour Inspectorate. An exception applies to a sole trader who is not an employer — that person may perform the BTS personally without the authorisation if they are a safety technician. Under § 21 ods. 10 the authorisation is issued for an indefinite period and the Inspectorate publishes the list of holders.
How to verify a supplier: the National Labour Inspectorate maintains a public list of authorisations issued for the performance of the occupational safety service as well as a list of safety technician certificates issued. Ask for the registration number of the authorisation — it is the only reliable way to find out whether a supplier may perform the BTS at all.
Authorised safety technician — what the term means today
The term authorised safety technician (ABT) is still in common use, yet it no longer exists in law. Amendment No. 114/2022 Coll., effective from 1 January 2023, merged two previously separate professional competences — safety technician and authorised safety technician — into a single shared competence named „bezpečnostný technik“ (safety technician). The original § 24, which governed the authorised safety technician, was repealed.
Certificate holders lost nothing. Under § 39k ods. 3 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll., a natural person holding a valid authorised safety technician certificate issued before 1 January 2023 is a person holding a safety technician certificate — directly by operation of law, without any application and without a new examination. Proceedings for issuing an ABT certificate that were running at the time were completed under the former rules, but at the end of them the Inspectorate issued a safety technician certificate.
If someone offers you an „authorised safety technician“ today, it is not a scam — it is an established name. Always verify what actually counts, though: a valid safety technician certificate from the National Labour Inspectorate and, for a supplier, also an authorisation to perform the occupational safety service.
One place where the original term still matters is the site safety coordinator. The text of § 6 ods. 1 of Government Regulation No. 396/2006 Coll. no longer contains the term „authorised safety technician“ — it was removed by Government Regulation No. 469/2022 Coll. with effect from 1 January 2023. An older valid ABT certificate still opens that route: under § 39k ods. 3 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. its holder is, directly by law, a natural person holding a safety technician certificate. Validity is the condition — the refresher training deadline runs from the original issue date of the ABT certificate. If you are dealing with a construction project, see site safety coordination.
In-house versus external safety technician
Both forms are lawful. The difference lies in cost, availability and in what happens when your person falls ill or leaves.
| In-house employee | External BTS | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | salary, levies, equipment, training | monthly flat fee based on scope |
| Certificate and refresher training | you pay for it and keep track of it | handled by the supplier |
| Cover during absence | none, if you have only one | the supplier provides a replacement |
| Independence | is your subordinate | under § 21 ods. 9 písm. e) must be independent |
| Range of disciplines | limited to their own certificates | OHS, fire protection, dedicated technical equipment and the PZS under one contract |
| Suitable for | large operations with permanent risk | small and medium-sized companies, multiple sites |
The Act also allows for combining roles. Under § 22 ods. 5 the role of safety technician may exceptionally be merged only with professional activities aimed at protecting the life or health of employees, preventing major industrial accidents, fire protection and carrying out professional inspections and professional tests of dedicated technical equipment. That is exactly why we can cover fire protection and inspections of dedicated technical equipment with a single technician.
Regardless of the form, § 21 ods. 5 applies: the employer must give the safety technician — in-house or supplied — sufficient time to carry out the professional tasks. A one-hour-per-month contract for a hundred-and-fifty-person production plant does not meet this condition, however formally it may be concluded.
How we launch the occupational safety service at your company
Taking over the agenda takes two to four weeks at a typical company. We do most of the work — from you we need access to the workplaces and whatever you already have prepared.
Initial site survey and status check We walk through your workplaces and review the technologies, work procedures and existing documentation. We establish what you already have and what is missing.
Risk assessment We prepare a risk assessment for the individual workplaces and activities and propose measures to eliminate or reduce the risks.
OHS documentation We complete and harmonise the documentation — the OHS policy concept, internal rules, operating rules and lists of personal protective equipment provided.
Employee training We arrange initial and repeated training of employees and managers, including written records and evidence.
Setting the deadlines We record every recurring date — workplace inspections, repeated training, medical examinations, technical inspections — and keep track of them for you.
Ongoing performance of the BTS The safety technician visits you within the agreed scope, carries out workplace inspections, keeps the records and is available for your day-to-day questions.
Representation during inspections During a labour inspectorate audit we prepare the documents, attend the inspection with you and communicate with the inspector.
You are not starting from scratch even when you have documentation inherited from someone else. The initial survey tells us what can be reused and what needs reworking — and you get a clear list of what is missing before you sign anything.
What happens if you have no occupational safety service
Failing to ensure the occupational safety service is a breach of the employer's obligation under Act No. 124/2006 Coll. and the labour inspectorate deals with it in administrative proceedings under Act No. 125/2006 Coll. on labour inspection. The amount of the fine depends on the seriousness of the finding and on whether an accident occurred.
The practical impact is usually greater than the fine itself. Without a risk assessment and without evidence of employee training it is very hard to demonstrate after an occupational accident that the employer met its obligations — and that feeds into damages as well as into the relationship with the insurer. The same applies in tenders and customer audits, where proof of an assured BTS is routinely required.
The Act also holds suppliers to a standard. Under § 21 ods. 11 a person authorised to perform the BTS must carry out the activity impartially and press the employer to comply with the rules; under § 21 ods. 12 the Inspectorate may withdraw the authorisation. A supplier who nods along with everything is not doing its job.
When you need more than the technician alone
The safety technician is one role. If you are dealing with occupational safety as a whole — documentation, training, accidents, inspections and representation during audits in a single package — see the comprehensive OHS service. The occupational safety service is its core, but OHS also covers everything that follows on from it.
- Fire protection (OPP) — fire protection technician, preventive inspections, the fire log book
- Occupational health service (PZS) — categorisation of work and preventive medical examinations
- Site safety coordination — if you are the developer or the general contractor
- Inspections of dedicated technical equipment — electrical, gas, pressure, lifting
If you are simply clarifying the terminology, you will find the definitions in the glossary — for example the entries safety technician and authorised safety technician.
What your safety technician takes care of
A certified safety technician
A qualified person holding a valid certificate from the National Labour Inspectorate who performs the statutory occupational safety service at your company.
Risk assessment and documentation
Risk assessment, the OHS policy concept, internal rules and their update whenever your operation changes.
Workplace inspections
Regular workplace walk-throughs with a written record of findings and proposed corrective measures.
Employee training
Initial and repeated training of employees and managers, including records and certificates of completion.
Representation during inspections
Attendance at labour inspectorate audits, preparation of documents and communication with the inspector on your behalf.
Why Alpha Safety
- Authorisation from the National Labour Inspectorate to provide the occupational safety service
- Safety technicians with valid certificates and completed refresher training
- We operate across Slovakia, including smaller towns and villages
- One supplier for occupational safety, fire protection and occupational health service
- From €15/month excl. VAT; the exact price reflects headcount and operational risk
Súvisiace články
Stručná odpoveď
A safety technician is a natural person holding a valid certificate of professional competence issued by the National Labour Inspectorate (§ 23 ods. 1 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll.) who performs the tasks of the occupational safety service (BTS) — risk assessment, OHS documentation, employee training and workplace inspections. The employer must ensure the BTS from the very first employee; if it does not have enough qualified employees of its own, it must arrange it through a supplier under § 21 ods. 4. Alpha Safety s.r.o. provides an external safety technician for companies across Slovakia, with a flat fee from €15 per month excluding VAT.
Časté otázky – Occupational Safety Service
A safety technician performs the tasks of the occupational safety service under § 22 ods. 1 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. — providing the employer with professional, methodological, organisational, supervisory, coordinating and educational advice on ensuring occupational safety and health. In practice this means assessing workplace risks, preparing and updating OHS documentation, training employees and managers, carrying out regular workplace inspections with a written record, investigating occupational accidents and cooperating with the occupational health service. Under § 22 ods. 2 these tasks are performed by the safety technician, where needed together with another specialist for a particular area.
Yes, it is the same role. Act No. 124/2006 Coll. uses the term bezpečnostný technik — under § 23 ods. 1 a natural person holding a valid certificate of professional competence issued by the National Labour Inspectorate. The label „technik BOZP“ is colloquial and does not appear in the text of the Act, yet it is common in practice, in job adverts and in search queries, and it means exactly the same person who performs the tasks of the occupational safety service under § 22 ods. 1.
Yes. Under § 21 ods. 3 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. the employer must ensure the occupational safety service for its employees, regardless of headcount — the Act sets no threshold at which the obligation would arise. Only the extent of fulfilment differs, based on the size of the organisation, working conditions and the distribution of risks. The obligation applies to a company with a single employee as well as to an office with no production risks.
The Act primarily assumes in-house qualified employees. However, if the employer, having regard to the size of the organisation, the number of employees, working conditions and the distribution of risks, does not have enough qualified employees, it must under § 21 ods. 4 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. arrange the performance of the occupational safety service through a supplier. For most small and medium-sized companies an external safety technician is the only economical solution, because an in-house employee with a certificate, refresher training and equipment would be disproportionately expensive at a headcount in the tens.
No, not as a separate professional competence. Amendment No. 114/2022 Coll., effective from 1 January 2023, merged the competences of authorised safety technician and safety technician into one named „bezpečnostný technik“ (safety technician), and the original § 24 was repealed. Under § 39k ods. 3 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll., a natural person holding a valid authorised safety technician certificate issued before 1 January 2023 is, directly by operation of law, a person holding a safety technician certificate — without an application and without a new examination. The term is still used in practice, but what should be verified is a valid safety technician certificate.
The occupational safety service is, together with the occupational health service, one of the two preventive and protective services under § 21 ods. 2 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. Under § 22 ods. 1 it provides the employer with advisory services in ensuring occupational safety and health, in particular regarding the adequacy of workspaces and structures, work processes and procedures, work equipment and the working environment. Its tasks are performed by a safety technician. The abbreviation BTS is commonly used in contracts and in communication with the labour inspectorate.
Under § 21 ods. 8 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. the occupational safety service may be performed on a supplier basis only by a natural person who is an entrepreneur or by a legal person holding an authorisation issued by the National Labour Inspectorate. The exception is a sole trader who is not an employer — that person may perform the BTS personally without the authorisation if they are a safety technician. Under § 21 ods. 10 the authorisation is issued for an indefinite period and the National Labour Inspectorate publishes the list of holders, so you can verify a supplier by its registration number.
No. Under § 21 ods. 7 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll., neither establishing the occupational safety service nor having its tasks performed by a supplier affects the employer's obligations in occupational safety and health or its liability for ensuring the safety and health of employees at work. An external safety technician therefore does not assume the liability — it provides the professional side so that the employer can meet and evidence its obligations. Under § 21 ods. 5 the employer must give the technician sufficient time to do so.
The flat fee starts from €15 per month excluding VAT for the smallest low-risk companies. The exact price depends on the number of employees, the number of sites, the riskiness of the activities and the agreed frequency of workplace inspections — we will prepare a non-binding quotation within 24 hours. The flat fee covers risk assessment, OHS documentation and its updates, employee training, regular workplace inspections, handling of occupational accidents and representation during labour inspectorate audits.
Yes, the Act expressly permits it. Under § 22 ods. 5 of Act No. 124/2006 Coll. the role of safety technician may exceptionally be merged only with professional activities aimed at protecting the life or health of employees, preventing major industrial accidents, fire protection and carrying out professional inspections and professional tests of dedicated technical equipment. That is exactly why we can cover occupational safety, fire protection and inspections of dedicated technical equipment with one person, so the company does not have to deal with several suppliers.
Two to four weeks from signing the contract at a typical company. We begin with an initial survey of the workplaces and a review of the existing documentation, followed by risk assessment, completing and harmonising the OHS documentation, initial employee training and setting up the calendar of recurring deadlines. We then move into ongoing performance — the safety technician visits within the agreed scope, keeps records of the inspections and is available for day-to-day questions.
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