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[ENG🇬🇧] OHS – Initial Training – General Instruction

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  1. Initial Training Program
  2. 1. The essence of occupational safety and health
    3 Tematy
  3. 2. Rights and Responsibilities of Employees and Employers in the Field of Occupational Health and Safety
    4 Tematy
  4. 3. Odpowiedzialność za naruszanie przepisów i zasad BHP
    2 Tematy
  5. 4. Podstawowe zasady BHP przy obsłudze maszyn i urządzeń technicznych oraz transporcie wewnętrznym.
    3 Tematy
  6. 5. Zagrożenie wypadkowe i zagrożenia dla zdrowia i środki zapobiegawcze.
    3 Tematy
  7. 6. Zasady przydziału odzieży, obuwia roboczego oraz środków ochrony indywidualnej.
    2 Tematy
  8. 7. Zasady poruszania się po zakładzie.
    3 Tematy
  9. 8. Porządek i czystość w miejscu pracy, higiena osobista pracownika.
    2 Tematy
  10. 9. Profilaktyczna opieka lekarska.
    2 Tematy
  11. 10. Podstawowe zasady ochrony przeciwpożarowej.
    5 Tematy
  12. 11. Organizacja i zasady udzielania pomocy przedlekarskiej w razie wypadku.
    11 Tematy

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Employer Responsibilities

The amended Labour Code has clarified the scope of rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees.
According to these provisions, the employer is obliged to:

  • Familiarize employees taking up work with their duties, methods of performing work at designated positions, and their basic rights and responsibilities.
  • Organize work in a manner that ensures full and effective use of working time, while enabling employees to achieve high performance and quality of work according to their skills and qualifications.
  • Provide safe and hygienic working conditions and conduct systematic training of employees in the field of occupational health and safety (OHS).
  • Organize work in a way that minimizes the burdens of monotonous tasks or work performed at a fixed pace.
  • Prevent discrimination in employment, in particular on the grounds of gender, age, disability, race, religion, nationality, political beliefs, trade union membership, ethnic origin, creed, sexual orientation, as well as employment type (fixed-term, indefinite, full-time, or part-time).

It is the employer who bears responsibility for the overall safety and hygiene of working conditions in the workplace.
Moreover, the employer is obliged to protect the health and life of employees by ensuring safe and hygienic working conditions through the appropriate application of scientific and technical knowledge, in particular by:

  • Organizing work in a way that ensures safe and hygienic working conditions.
  • Responding to OHS needs, adapting preventive and protective measures to changing workplace conditions and continuously improving the existing level of health and life protection of employees.
  • Ensuring compliance within the workplace with OHS laws, regulations, and internal procedures; issuing corrective orders when irregularities are found, and monitoring their implementation.
  • Enforcing compliance with instructions, decisions, and orders issued by OHS authorities and supervisory bodies.
  • Providing execution of recommendations issued by the labour inspector.

Employer’s Duty to Provide OHS Instructions and Information

The employer is obliged to provide employees with up-to-date occupational health and safety (OHS) instructions for regular use, covering:

  • Technological processes applied in the workplace and performance of tasks involving accident hazards or risks to employees’ health,
  • Operation of machinery and other technical equipment,
  • Handling of materials hazardous to health or dangerous substances,
  • Provision of first aid.

In addition, the employer is required to inform employees about:

  • Hazards to life and health present in the workplace, at specific workstations, and during the performance of particular tasks — including procedures to be followed in case of failure, accident, or other emergency situations posing a risk to employees,
  • Preventive and protective measures undertaken to eliminate or reduce these risks,
  • Employees designated to provide first aid and those responsible for firefighting and evacuation activities.

If employees of different employers perform work at the same location, each employer must:

  • Cooperate with one another,
  • Appoint a coordinator responsible for supervising compliance with occupational health and safety rules for all employees working at that site,
  • Establish principles of cooperation that define how to act in case of hazards or incidents that may endanger the health or life of employees.

Employer Rights

It should be remembered that, apart from their duties, the employer also has the right to:

  • Reward and recognize employees for their work performance and achievements,
  • Apply disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, for non-compliance by employees with established workplace rules, internal regulations, occupational health and safety (OHS) requirements, and fire protection regulations,
  • Impose financial penalties for violations of OHS regulations, unauthorized absence from work, reporting to work under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicating substances, or consuming alcohol during working hours.

Funds collected from such financial penalties may be used exclusively to improve occupational health and safety conditions in the workplace.