Occupational Health and Safety Inspectorate

Wybrzeże L. Pasteura 1
tel.: 71 784 11 40
bhp@umw.edu.pl

OHS Head Specialist

Łukasz Małecki, MA
tel.: 695 653 621
e-mail: lukasz.malecki@umw.edu.pl

 

OHS Head Specialist

Magdalena Golczyk, MA
tel.: 695 560 074
e-mail: magdalena.golczyk@umw.edu.pl

 

COMPETENCE

  1. Carrying out inspections of working conditions and compliance with occupational health and safety rules and regulations, with particular regard to job positions where pregnant or breastfeeding women, adolescents, the disabled, employees performing shift work, including night work, and individuals performing work on a basis other than an employment relationship are employed in the workplace or in a place designated by the employer.

  2. Keeping the employer informed of occupational hazards identified, together with proposals aimed at eliminating those hazards.

  3. Preparing and presenting to the employer, at least once a year, periodic analyses of the occupational health and safety conditions, including proposed technical and organisational measures aimed at preventing threats to the employees' life and health and improving working conditions.

  4. Participating in the preparation of plans for the modernisation and development of the workplace and presenting proposals for including technical and organisational solutions in these plans to improve occupational health and safety.

  5. Participating in the assessment of assumptions and documentation for the modernisation of the workplace or part of it, as well as new investments, and making proposals for including occupational health and safety requirements in these assumptions and documentation.

  6. Participating in the handover for use of newly constructed or reconstructed buildings or their parts, providing for work premises, production equipment and other devices affecting the working conditions and safety of employees.

  7. Making proposals for occupational health and safety requirements in existing and newly introduced production processes.

  8. Presenting proposals to the employer regarding compliance with ergonomic requirements at workstations.

  9. Participating in the preparation of company collective labour agreements, internal orders, regulations and general instructions on occupational health and safety, and in the determination of the tasks of the persons in charge of employees with regard to occupational health and safety.

  10. Providing opinions on detailed instructions regarding occupational health and safety at individual workstations.

  11. Participating in the determination of circumstances and causes of accidents at work and in the development of conclusions from the study of causes and circumstances of accidents and occupational diseases, along with an inspection of the implementation of these conclusions.

  12. Keeping registers, collecting and storing documents concerning accidents at work, determined occupational diseases and assumptions of such diseases, as well as the storage of results of tests and measurement of factors harmful to health at the workplace.

  13. Providing advice on the application of occupational health and safety regulations and rules.

  14. Participating in the assessment of occupational risk associated with the work performed.

  15. Providing advice on the organisation and methods of work at workstations where there are hazardous factors, factors harmful to health or onerous conditions, and the selection of the most appropriate collective and personal protective equipment.

  16. Cooperating with the relevant organisational units or persons, in particular in organising and ensuring an adequate level of training in the area of occupational health and safety and ensuring the proper professional adaptation of newly hired employees.

  17. Cooperating with laboratories authorised, in accordance with separate regulations, to perform tests and measurements of factors harmful to health or onerous conditions occurring in the work environment, in terms of organising these tests and measurements and ways of protecting employees against these factors or conditions.

  18. Cooperating with laboratories and other units involved in measuring the state of the natural environment, operating within the state environmental monitoring system, as defined in separate regulations.

  19. Liaising with a doctor providing preventive health care for employees, and in particular organising periodic medical examinations for employees.

  20. Liaising with the social labour inspectorate and company trade union organisations in:

  21. taking actions by them to comply with the occupational health and safety regulations and rules, in the manner and to the extent established in separate regulations,

  22. measures taken by the employer to improve working conditions.

  23. Participating in consultations on occupational health and safety, as well as in the work of occupational health and safety commissions and other company committees involved in occupational health and safety issues, including the prevention of occupational diseases and accidents at work.

  24. Initiating and developing various forms of dissemination of occupational health and safety and ergonomics issues at the workplace.