Latvia: work environment risk assessment must be reviewed at least once a year
Date note: Not a shared calendar deadline: MK noteikumi Nr. 660 'Darba vides iekšējās uzraudzības veikšanas kārtība' (in force since 2007) requires the review at least once every 12 months, counted from your own company's previous risk assessment, plus immediately after a workplace/process change, an accident, or detected non-compliance (§18); the internal-uzraudzība system as a whole must also be checked at least once a year (§40). The date shown is an illustrative annual placeholder, not everyone's actual due date — calendar your own review 12 months after your last one.
Every year in October, due by the 2nd. · Illustrative annual cadence only — the real deadline is 12 months after your own company's previous risk assessment, not this specific calendar date.
What changes
Every employer must have a written work environment risk assessment (darba vides risku novērtējums) and must review and update it at least once every 12 months, and additionally whenever work activities, processes or conditions change materially, a legal non-compliance is found, or a workplace accident occurs.
Who is affected
Every registered employer in Latvia with at least one employee, of any size or sector — including a one-person office with a single hired employee.
Sizes: micro, small, medium, large · Sectors: All sectors · Applies if: We employ staff
What to do
Note the date of your most recent work environment risk assessment and calendar a review no later than 12 months after it. Redo the review immediately if you change premises, equipment or ways of working, if VDI finds a non-compliance, or after any workplace accident. Keep the assessment and its review history on file for VDI inspection.
Next occurrences
Penalty
VDI administrative enforcement under the Darba aizsardzības likums for missing or outdated risk assessments; specific fine amounts not confirmed from a source fetched this session.
Sources
- likumi.lv – Darba vides iekšējās uzraudzības veikšanas kārtība (MK noteikumi Nr. 660, §18 un §40) (likumi.lv)
Last verified 8 September 2026. Informational only, not legal advice.