- News
- New regulations on employing foreigners (3)
The draft act on employing foreigners has been submitted to public consultations. The aim of the draft act is primarily to streamline the procedures for entrusting work to foreigners, to reduce the backlog of handling cases by offices and to limit abuses, as well as to fully digitize procedures.
- Labor inspection is knocking on the door ... without prior notice (4)
Already last year, a draft act amending the Act - Entrepreneurs' Law was submitted to the Parliament. It concerned an unequivocal indication that the obligation to notify the entrepreneur about the intention to initiate an inspection does not occur in the case of inspections carried out by the National Labor Inspectorate (PIP) pursuant to the Act on PIP. The legislative process is still ongoing. We checked whether the new regulations had been enacted.
- Accidents at work
- Doubts about an accident at the workplace (5)
Among the employees of the OHS service, frequent doubts are caused by accidents which employees experience after entering the workplace, but before reaching the place where they work or where they confirm their arrival at work. Similar doubts arise when an employee has an accident after finishing work and intends to leave the workplace, but is still there. How to interpret such events?
- Health and safety training - experts answer
- What training for an employer who is also a blue-collar worker (7)
An employer or an organizational unit providing training in the field of health and safety should provide a training program, lecturers with the appropriate knowledge, professional experience and didactic preparation, appropriate premises, teaching equipment, proper course of training, including keeping relevant documentation, i.e. a log of classes, protocol from the course of the examination, register of issued certificates.
- Social Labor Inspectorate (SIP)
- Environmental protection - another right of SIP (8)
Employers, including those with a social labor inspection, fit into the definition of an entity using the environment. The control of entities using the environment is the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Inspectorate. However, it should be remembered that the powers of social labor inspectors include participation in such inspections. The problem is that the detailed issues of such participation are not regulated in the SIP Act. Interestingly, this issue is also not resolved in the materials of the National Labor Inspectorate for trade unions and social labor inspectors. So what is participation in such an audit?
- Working conditions
- Anti-mobbing survey in the fight against mobbing at work (10)
Theoretically, mobbing is not a matter related to the OHS service. its role, however, is extremely important in combating this type of negative phenomena. Detecting mobbing is very difficult. Therefore, the article presents a tool, which is an anti-mobbing survey, which should be used periodically. The industry, the nature of work or the length of service of the employee are irrelevant here. virtually anyone can become a victim. Activities of the management staff should aim at identifying the problem and solving it as quickly as possible.
- The subject of the issue
- Explosive atmosphere - OHS requirements (12)
The recent meeting of the Labor Protection Council is not optimistic in the context of the control and supervisory experience of labor inspectors controlling the issues related to explosion safety. Therefore, it is worth knowing what are the key obligations of employers in relation to the possibility of an explosive atmosphere before it is verified by the labor inspector.
- Questions and Answers
- How to mark stress in a referral for medical examinations (15)
The employer must refer the promoted employee to the initial medical examination, describing in detail the working conditions in the new job position in the referral.
- How to proceed in the event of an accident of the president acting on the basis of an appointment (16)
In the event of an accident of the employer of an entrepreneur engaged in non-agricultural business activity, it is necessary to report the incident to the organizational unit of the Social Insurance Institution competent for the place of business. Thus, the activities in the scope of determining the circumstances and causes of the accident will be performed by the Department in the accident card.
- Is it possible to replace an employee of the health and safety at work service (L4) with another employee (17)
Conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract (replacement) in the position of an employee of the health and safety service, for the time of being on leave of the current employee of the OHS service, is possible, if the candidate has the qualifications required for the service OHS.
- Is occasional climbing a ladder work at height (18)
If a worker performs work at height, even occasionally, such work will be work at height.
- How does the cooperation between subcontractors work? (19)
The appointment of a coordinator does not release individual employers from the obligation to ensure the health and safety of their employees.
- Safety training
- Delivery truck driver - workplace training on occupational health and safety (20)
Workplace training in the field of occupational health and safety not only indicates threats, but most of all ways of avoiding them, which should improve the safety of the work performed. During work, the driver of a delivery vehicle is exposed to many harmful, burdensome and dangerous factors that have a direct impact on work safety. The article presents the issues that should be discussed during the initial OSH training - on-the-job training for the driver of a delivery vehicle.
- Poster
- Warning sign informing about the possible occurrence of explosive atmospheres in amounts hazardous to safety and health (24)
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