•  News
    • New professions in the Classification of Professions and Specialties (3)
      The Ministry of Development, Labor and Technology has presented a draft amendment to the regulation on the classification of professions and specialties. It assumes the addition of 81 new professions that have recently appeared on the labor market and the liquidation of a few obsolete ones.
    • Employers will receive information on vaccinating employees (3)
      A draft law is in preparation that will allow employers to access information on vaccinating employees against COVID-10. According to the announcement of the adoption of changes it is planned for September’s sitting of the Parliament.
    • Regulations on scaffolding to be changed urgently (4)
      Health and safety regulations regarding scaffolding stalled in the form specified in the Polish People's Republic. This not only makes it difficult to carry out construction works, but also creates risks for people working on the scaffolding. Experts from the Association of Facade Contractors appeal to the government to change the regulations. Specifically, it is about the standards for the distance between the scaffolding and the wall and the protection of balconies. What exactly did they propose?
  • Health and safety training - Experts respond
    • How to conduct training for a remote employee (5)
      For IT employees, classified as administrative and office employees, initial training (general and job training) can be conducted entirely remotely, on the basis of materials provided in electronic form by the employer.
  • Recipes with a comment
    • The bite of the tick as an accident at work (6)
      The accident at work as a sudden event, caused by an external associated largely with injury that occurs during the handling of wider tools. In specific situations, unusual events may be considered in terms of an accident at work. One of them is the tick bite of the worker, which in September (especially in the mushroom season) does not have to be an isolated situation.
  • The subject of the issue
    • Assessment of working conditions in the event of modification of a remote employee's workplace (8)
      In the vast majority of cases, remote work in order to counteract COVID-19 is carried out as part of a workplace where work with the use of a computer is performed. However, it cannot be ruled out that during remote work, after equipping the employee with the equipment necessary for work, there will be a need to modify the equipment. Does this always justify the need to reassess the computerized workstation?
  • Accidents at work
    • Accident analysis - a collective, serious accident in a trench during the installation of sewage pipes (10)
      The article presents an analysis of an accident at work which occurred during the course of laying sewage system pipes in an unsecured trench with a depth of 3 m. What exactly happened and what were the causes of the accident. in the opinion of the labor inspector?
  • Health and safety service
    • Consultancy factors dangerous and unhealthy - 15 task OSH services (11)
      The organization and methods of work in positions where there are factors dangerous, harmful to health or arduous conditions, and selection of the most appropriate means of individual and collective protection - is another task słusżby OHS. is carried out as part of an advisory function . Taking into account the laconic provision exposing this task, doubts may arise as to the correct performance of the health and safety service with the above-mentioned obligation. What, then, is the task of the health and safety service?
    • Inspection of the National Labor Inspectorate and the possibility of dismissing an employee of the OHS service from vacation leave (13)
      The vacation season is the time during which every employee, including OHS services, has the right to take employee vacation leave. The leaves are also used by labor inspectors - some of them, however, work and implement the control plan. Is the inspection of a labor inspector the basis for recalling an employee of the OHS service from leave or can it be such a basis?
  • Working conditions
    • The law to an air-conditioned rest room - when and in what situations (14)
      The employer provides easily accessible rest rooms for employees, if required by their safety and health. A special situation is experienced by employees working in rooms where the temperature caused by technological processes is constantly higher than 30 degrees . They are entitled to air-conditioned rooms. This entitlement can be effectively verified by the bodies controlling and supervising working conditions.
  • Questions & Answers
    • How to correctly mark the stairs (15)
      It is recommended to mark the steps of the stairs, usually the first and the last, in case the floor has the color of the steps and in poor lighting it is difficult to distinguish the beginning and the end. In this case, a person may trip and fall on the stairs.
    • Is the qualification required to operate a stationary crane? (16)
      It is not required to have a qualification certificate to operate a stationary crane with an electric lifting system (hoist) with a lifting capacity of up to 250 kg, not intended for moving people.
    • Is COVID-19 infection of a teacher at school an accident at work (16)
      Cases related to infection with an infectious disease such as influenza or COVID-19 (with more serious consequences than traditional flu) are not considered as accidents at work - serious, group nor fatal.
    • When the employer has to pay contributions to the Bridging Pensions Fund (17)
      If the work is carried out in the workplace in special conditions or of a special nature, the employer is obliged to pay contributions to the fund.
    • When can ZNA allow the employee to use the crane (18)
      Employee qualification after passing an exam is not entitled to operate the crane. The document authorizing to operate the crane is a qualification certificate issued by the Office of Technical Inspection, specifying the type of the crane and the validity date of the certificate. The employer must therefore wait for the employee to receive a certificate of qualification for the crane operation issued by the Office of Technical Inspection (or TDT or WDT).
  • Court case law
    • Protection of a pregnant employee also covers changes in working and pay conditions (19)
      The statutory protection of work for pregnant women includes the prohibition of the employer, during the pregnancy, from submitting a declaration of termination of an employment contract or termination of work and pay conditions. But not only. What else results from the Supreme Court's judgment of October 7, 2020 and what impact does it have on the employer?
  • COVID-19 and OHS
    • Referral of an employee for periodic examination during an epidemic (20)
      The period of the COVID-19 epidemic is associated with the modification of certain obligations in the field of technical safety at work. An example is the regulations on preventive medical examinations, under which the obligations related to sending employees to periodic examinations have been temporarily suspended. However, it cannot be ruled out that there are special cases when referring an employee to periodic checkups is the most appropriate.
  • Occupational risk assessment
    • Blast - cleaning operator - identification and characterization of the working environment factors (22)
      Occupational risk is the probability of the occurrence of undesirable work-related events causing losses, in particular the occurrence of adverse health effects in employees as a result of occupational hazards occurring in the work environment or the way of performing work. When preparing a risk assessment, it is very important to identify the risks - it is an essential part of this process.
  • Poster
    • Get vaccinated against COVID-19 and go on a well-deserved, safe vacation! (24)

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