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    • New health and safety regulations at universities from 1 March 2019 (1-2, 12)
      On October 1, 2018, regulations regarding occupational health and safety at universities were discontinued. This state of affairs is the result of the entry into force of the provisions introducing the Act - Law on Higher Education and Science. Unfortunately, as of 1 October this year, new regulations in this area have not been passed yet. The higher education institution is working on a slightly late, new regulation on health and safety at universities. The new regulation, which is currently in the phase of consultations and opinions, will redefine the duties of rectors in the scope of ensuring occupational health and safety and education at universities.
    • From 2019, in the personal files, an additional 4 part concerning OSH (3-4)
      Already from next year, the employee's personal files will have to be separated into a new part, in which documents related to post-government or disciplinary responsibility of the employee will be collected. The Ministry of Labor plans to change the way the documents collected in personal files are divided into four parts. In which part of the employees' personal files there will be documents related to broadly understood occupational health and safety?
    • How to ensure that medical examinations of employees of several employers working in one place are up-to-date (4-5)
      Performing work in one place by employees formally employed by various employers is a common phenomenon. Work safety regulations are regulated by employers' obligations which are related to this - in the scope of cooperation or designation of the coordinating person. This does not exempt individual employers from their obligations to their employees, including in the area of preventive medical examinations.
    • There will be no control of the National Labor Inspectorate after knowing (5-6)
      Soon every inspector of the National Labor Inspectorate who performs control activities will have to submit a written statement on the conduct or non-activity of persons closest to him in the scope of the subject of his audits with employers. That is, the inspections on behalf of the National Labor Inspectorate will no longer be carried out by the family of a specialist for OSH serving a controlled company.
    • Is the justification of a labor inspector's order required (6-7)
      Irregularities in the technical safety of work identified in entities controlled by the National Labor Inspectorate are regulated in the form of orders. If you receive such a decision in writing, it is striking in the absence of a factual justification - which usually includes every administrative decision. In this case, should the decision be considered defective and can be effectively challenged before the regional labor inspector?
  • Working conditions
    • Can work with a forklift be classified as particularly dangerous (7)
      Works performed with the use of motor-powered trucks due to the specificity and accompanying hazards may pose particular hazards to human health or life and require a list of such works to be drawn up. However, the question arises: can this type of work be assessed in terms of particularly dangerous work? Should they also be included in the list of particularly dangerous works? How do these lists relate to each other?
    • Must a new employee receive new work clothes (12)
      Is it possible to transfer working footwear after a dismissed employee to a new employee? What procedures should be used to implement such a solution (disinfection, purchase of socks)?
    • How to use second-hand machines imported from abroad without documentation (13)
      The company has brought machines and devices from various production years from Sweden to Poland, most of which we do not have any documents. What should you do to allow these machines and equipment to work in production halls? What documents, what instructions, what should we do in this topic so that employees can use them?
  • The topic of the issue
    • Occupational risk assessment at the hairdresser's workplace (8-11)
      The article presents an example of an occupational risk assessment at the workplace of a hairdresser - hairdresser / hairdresser. If you employ employees in your salon, it is obligatory to carry out and document a risk assessment at individual work stations. Presented material will certainly facilitate this task for the hairdresser's position. The material was developed based on the Risc Score method.
  • Accidents at work
    • Should the carpal tunnel syndrome be classified as an accident or occupational disease (14)
      Can the carpal tunnel syndrome be considered an accident at work?
    • Does the absence of a clear injury exclude an accident at work (14-15)
      The worker carried objects and felt pain in the spine. He was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with pains (no injury) and got a dozen days off. Can such an event be considered as an accident at work if no clear injury was found?
  • Occupational health and safety documents
    • Checklist for analysis of occupational risk related to regularly repeated activities (16)
      Symptoms of mental underload, resulting from the uniformity of stimuli, actions and unchanging work situation, occur in all types of enterprises and institutions. They constitute the essence of work monotony. The study presents a checklist, thanks to which you can independently identify the phenomenon of work monotony. It will help to assess the occupational risk caused by repetitive activities, for which it is necessary to review the working conditions at workstations that can be performed according to a checklist.

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