--- title: "#CostaRica 🇨🇷 #BDS_LaborAlert: New Regulation Strengthens Employers’ Occupational Health Obligations" description: New Regulation image: https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/hubfs/sobre-un-fondo-blanco-hay-sombreros-de-seguridad-ropa-de-trabajo-y-estetoscopios-con-copia-espacio.jpg --- [![BDS blanco ingles](https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BDS%20blanco%20ingles.png?width=100&height=50&name=BDS%20blanco%20ingles.png "BDS blanco ingles")](https://www.bdsasesores.com) - [Team](https://www.bdsasesores.com/en/team/) - [Services](https://www.bdsasesores.com/en/services/) - Blog - [Labor Law](https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/en-us/blog) - [Corporate Law](https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/apriori-blog?hsLang=en-us) - [Store](https://www.bdsasesores.com/en/tienda/) - [Contact](https://www.bdsasesores.com/en/contact/) - English - [English](https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/blog?hsLang=en-us) - [Español](https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/blog?hsLang=es-cr) ![](https://publicaciones.bdsasesores.com/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Theme-Delight%20BDS%20Asesores/images/logo-BDS-blanco-jul25.png?width=200&name=logo-BDS-blanco-jul25.png) ##### Oct 8, 2025 4:00:00 PM ##### 1 min. read #CostaRica 🇨🇷 #BDS\_LaborAlert: New Regulation Strengthens Employers’ Occupational Health Obligations 2:13 # #CostaRica 🇨🇷 #BDS\_LaborAlert: New Regulation Strengthens Employers’ Occupational Health Obligations On **September 29, 2025**, **Executive Decree No. 45166-MTSS** was published in Item No. 124 of Official Gazette No. 181. This decree establishes the **Regulation on Occupational Health Committees and Departments**, repealing Executive Decree No. 39408-MTSS of November 23, 2015. The purpose of this Regulation is to **set the minimum requirements for the creation, organization, and operation of Occupational Health Committees** in workplaces with **ten or more employees**, and **Occupational Health Departments** in those with **over fifty permanent employees**. Its application is mandatory for all workplaces—public and private—and all individual or collective agreements must comply with its provisions. Some of the main obligations imposed on employers include: the digital registration requirement with the Occupational Health Council and the use of an official email address as a valid channel for notifications; the **establishment and registration of Committees through guaranteed election processes conducted during working hours**; and the creation of Departments, which must be registered within 30 calendar days. The Regulation also establishes the employer’s obligation to provide resources, annual training, and **paid time** for participation in the activities of these bodies, and it introduces a disciplinary framework in accordance with the Labor Code. In addition, it includes a transitional provision granting a **30-business-day period to regularize the registration** of Departments created before 2016. 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