Current legal framework of the SG-SST in Colombia

It replaced Resolución 2346 de 2007 (and Resoluciones 1918 de 2009, 1075 de 1992 and 4050 de 1994). It regulates pre-employment, periodic, exit, post-sick-leave, return-to-work and follow-up medical evaluations, and the handling of the occupational medical record, which the provider keeps for at least 20 years. They are performed by OSH specialist physicians with a valid license. It has been in force since its publication (May 6, 2025) and enforceable since November 7, 2025, after a six-month transition.

For your company: The employer pays for the exams, never the worker. Your SG-SST sets how often they happen based on the risks, and only in exceptional, justified cases can the interval reach three years. The exit exam takes place within five business days after the contract ends.

It repealed Resoluciones 652 and 1356 de 2012 and redefines the committee that prevents and handles workplace harassment under Ley 1010 de 2006. It has been in force since its publication (September 11, 2025).

For your company: With fewer than 5 workers, the committee has one workers’ representative and one employer’s representative; with more than 5 and fewer than 20, the same with alternates; with more than 20, two and two with alternates. The term is two years; it meets monthly and holds extraordinary meetings for each complaint. It is not competent to handle sexual harassment.

It regulates the Joint Occupational Safety and Health Committee (formerly the joint occupational health committee): an equal number of employer and worker representatives, a two-year term, meetings and duties. Decreto 1072 de 2015 gives it a role in the audit and in accident investigations.

For your company: Companies with fewer than 10 workers appoint an OSH Vigía instead of the committee (Decreto Ley 1295 de 1994, art. 63).

It sets the obligations and minimum requirements for investigating workplace incidents and accidents: an investigation team with the direct supervisor, a COPASST representative or the Vigía and the person in charge of the SG-SST, the methodology, the report and the corrective measures. It remains in force and Decreto 1072 refers to it.

For your company: Every incident and accident is investigated within 15 days of occurring (art. 4). The accident is also reported to the ARL and the EPS (health insurer) within two business days (Decreto 1072, art. 2.2.4.1.7).

It adopted the battery of instruments to assess psychosocial risk factors, the general technical guide and the intervention protocols, and repealed Resolución 2404 de 2019. The assessment is carried out by a psychologist with an OSH license.

For your company: Identifying psychosocial risk is part of health management in the SG-SST. Under Resolución 2764 de 2022, the assessment is repeated as often as the rule requires for the level of risk found.

It sets the minimum requirements for work at heights (from 2 meters), training by levels, retraining, work permits and fall protection equipment. It repealed Resolución 1409 de 2012 and Resolución 1248 de 2020.

For your company: If anyone in your company works at heights (maintenance, warehouses, façades, roofs), it applies even if only occasionally: certified training, a work permit and the right equipment.

It defines workplace harassment, its forms and the preventive and corrective measures the employer must adopt, including a confidential, conciliatory internal procedure (today, the workplace harmony committee of Resolución 3461 de 2025).

For your company: The internal work regulations must include the mechanisms to prevent workplace harassment and the internal procedure to handle complaints.