Jurisdictions

One platform, three legal frameworks

A jurisdiction is not a language or a date format: it is a property of each company. You choose it once, when the company is set up, and everything follows from it — the law that applies, the authority you notify, the deadlines, the occupational exposure limits and the documents that get generated. This page says what is behind each of the three today, including what is missing.

The three, side by side

AttributeSpainIrelandUnited Kingdom
Legal frameworkLey 31/1995 · RD 39/1997SHWWA 2005 · S.I. 299/2007HSWA 1974 · MHSWR 1999 · COSHH 2002
AuthorityINSSTHSAHSE
Notification deadline24 h (serious accident) · report for Delt@Immediate · 240 h (more than 3 days lost)Immediate · 10 days (RIDDOR)
Occupational exposure limits25 INSST VLA values25 HSA OELV values25 EH40 values
Documents generated651
Sector templates41—

Exposure limits are looked up by CAS number and by jurisdiction, so the same chemical resolves against the table of the country the company is in.

Three today. A company in France or Portugal has no valid answer to this question yet, and we would rather say so here than in a demo.

And if your company is in another European country? Ask. Adding a jurisdiction is our work — its law, its authority, its deadlines, its exposure limits — and we do not charge you for it: it is as much in our interest as yours. What we will not do is tell you it is already there and let you find out afterwards.

Spain

Legal framework
Ley 31/1995 on the prevention of occupational risks · RD 39/1997 on prevention services
Authority
INSST — Instituto Nacional de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo

The deepest of the three, because it is where the product was born. Beyond risk assessment and preventive planning it covers two things with no equivalent in Ireland or the UK: inter-company coordination on a shared site, and the Spanish construction paperwork.

  • Risk assessment and prevention plan (Ley 31/1995, RD 39/1997)
  • Coordination of business activities on a shared site (RD 171/2004)
  • Construction: subcontracting book, stop orders and incident logbook (RD 1627/1997)
  • Accident notification to the labour authority via Delt@: the work-accident report is generated in the official «Estándar Delta» format, ready to import
  • Automated regulatory watch: the BOE daily plus EU DOUE/EUR-Lex, classified and scored for how they apply to your company's activity; each company chooses the categories it cares about
  • 25 INSST exposure limit values, by CAS number
  • Six documents: prevention plan, risk assessment, preventive planning, training record, health surveillance and coordination
  • Four sector templates: construction, hospitality, offices and industry
  • Interface in Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician

Coordination of business activities (Article 24 of Ley 31/1995 and RD 171/2004) is a specifically Spanish legal construct: neither Ireland nor the UK has an equivalent. That is why it only appears in the Spanish jurisdiction.

Ireland

Legal framework
Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 · S.I. 299/2007, General Application Regulations
Authority
HSA — Health and Safety Authority

Ireland is not the Spanish module translated. It is its own regulations, its own deadlines and its own documents, and the product treats them as such: an injury with more than three days lost triggers HSA notification with the deadline computed on the incident record itself, not a generic reminder.

  • Five legal requirements modelled: safety statement (s. 20), risk assessment (s. 19), general duty, General Application Regulations 2007 and chemical agents
  • HSA notification: immediate in the case of a fatality
  • More than three days lost: the deadline is computed and shown on the incident record (S.I. No. 370/2016)
  • Automated EU DOUE/EUR-Lex watch: occupational-safety acts are ingested in English, classified and scored for applicability
  • 25 HSA occupational exposure limit values (OELVs), by CAS number
  • Five documents: safety statement, risk assessment, training record, health surveillance and accident record
  • One sector template: automotive — vehicle repair, servicing and tyre fitting
  • Interface in English, with the company in euro and Irish date formats

Section 20 of the SHWWA 2005 requires a written safety statement. It is the document an HSA inspector asks for on arrival.

What it does not cover yet. The construction module is built on Spanish regulations, so it does not fit an Irish contractor today. And there is one sector template so far, the automotive one.

United Kingdom

Legal framework
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 · MHSWR 1999 · COSHH 2002 · RIDDOR 2013
Authority
HSE — Health and Safety Executive

The thinnest of the three in its own content, and we say so here rather than let it be discovered in a demo. The engine is whole — RIDDOR fires with its deadline, EH40 values resolve by CAS number — but what arrives on day one is considerably shorter than in Spain.

  • Five legal requirements modelled: risk assessment, competent person (MHSWR 1999), general duty (HSWA 1974), exposure control (COSHH 2002) and RIDDOR reporting
  • HSE notification: immediate for a fatality, ten days for a reportable accident (RIDDOR 2013)
  • 25 EH40 exposure limit values, by CAS number
  • One document: the RIDDOR record, with its F2508 template
  • Interface in English, with the company in pounds and British date formats

RIDDOR 2013: the ten-day deadline runs from the accident, and the product computes it on the record exactly as it does in Ireland.

What it does not cover yet. There are no UK sector templates. A UK customer starts from the English risk baseline and builds their own on top of it.

Sector content

Sectors are built one at a time

Each sector template is real work: the risks specific to that trade, its control measures, the PPE, the training courses and the inspection checklists, referenced to the regulation that applies in that country. That is why the numbers above are four, one and none rather than a tick in all three columns. We are building them one at a time, and the order is not settled.

The construction module is the same case: it is built on RD 1627/1997 and the subcontracting book, which are Spanish constructs. Adapting it to Ireland or the UK is bounded work — the duties exist in all three countries under different names — and we are open to doing it as soon as someone needs it.

If your sector is not there, tell us and we will move it up the queue. Knowing which sector is needed, and for which country, is exactly what decides what we build next.

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Groups with several companies

A Spanish parent with an Irish subsidiary

The jurisdiction belongs to the company, not to the account. Both live inside the same account and each answers under its own law, with its own currency, time zone and deadlines. You switch between them from the company selector, without signing out and back in.

  • One company, one jurisdiction, one applicable law
  • Currency, time zone and date format resolved per company
  • Notification deadlines computed under each one's own rule
  • The demo account spans all three, with a real Irish company inside it

goPrevina applies the rule it cites in each case and links to the competent authority. It does not replace legal advice or an occupational health and safety service: the duty to comply remains the company's, and where there is any doubt the text of the regulation governs.

See it with real data in it

The public demo has a genuine Irish company set up in it: a tyre workshop with its risk assessments, its inspections, its incident records and an HSA deadline running. Switch companies in the selector and compare it with the Spanish one.

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