Safety and Environmental Legislation Updates

The conduct in the fields of the environment and safety is based first and foremost on fulfilling all the provisions of the law. The provisions of the law mean, among other things, the provisions published in the records of the official binding Israeli laws, regulations and standards. In addition to this legislation, there are many other binding instructions, some of which originate from foreign standards to which Israeli law refers, and some of which are "softer" - legal provisions such as Israeli standards, procedures of the government ministries - the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Safety Directorate, instruction files, directorate circulars, and more.

This tangle is large and complex, and in order to get to know it in detail and check whether each factor complies with the required instructions, an internal enforcement plan is required. You can also read on our website about the internal enforcement programs we carry out in the fields of environment and safety. However, even if an enforcement plan was made, the plan is correct at the time of its implementation.

In practice, during the work routine, the laws, regulations and official standards are updated frequently, and a change of one section is enough to change instructions and the obligation of each party to comply with the instructions, or alternatively, to understand that a length of time has been given to comply with the instructions. Therefore, providing legislative updates in the areas of the environment and safety is critical - and it should be done with sufficient frequency, and in a systematic manner that will give confidence that all mandatory amendments relevant to the activity have been covered and reviewed.

We have been providing services of legislative updates to our customers for many years. In our view, there is great significance in receiving legislative updates from a law firm that specializes in the field of environmental and safety law - since an update of a law does not stand on its own and is often related to and affects other laws that are directly or indirectly affected by it.