Wiadomości PKN - Normalizacja (PKN News - Standarization) 2023/01

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Category: Wiadomości PKN - Normalizacja

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• Editorial (3)
• News
  • Changes in the organization of standardization work (4)
    Changing information and communication technologies affect all economic processes, including standardization and the needs of the stakeholders of the Polish Committee for Standardization.
• From the world
  • Harnessing the potential of International Standards in a digital world (12)

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Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne (Work and Social Security) 2022/12

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• On the role of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in ensuring decent work in the world of production offshoring.
  Production offshoring is a popular strategy that allows companies to gain a competitive advantage, in particular by reducing operating costs, especially labor costs. However, its application entails the risk that in the pursuit of economic goals, companies will go a step too far and will be willing to tacitly accept violations of the fundamental rights of people employed by their subcontractors, especially in developing countries where the level of legal protection is still relatively low . One of the most important challenges of the modern world is therefore to ensure decent work for these people. The question posed in this article is how to do this and whether the International Labor Organization will play a leading role in this process - established to promote basic human rights and improve working and living conditions.
• Scope of exclusion of social security disputes in European civil procedural law.
  European civil procedural law excludes social security from the scope of its application, but does not define this matter. That concept is to be interpreted autonomously, which is intended to ensure the effectiveness of EU law in the field of the coordination of social security systems. In the case law of the CJEU, it is therefore assumed that the substantive content of the term "social security" in European civil procedural law determines the material scope of Regulation (EU) No 883/2004. This means that matters that are not covered by the coordination of social security systems remain outside the scope of the exclusion. With regard to them, the assessment of the application of the rules of European civil procedural law requires the notion of civil and commercial matters to be taken into account. Only taking into account both elements - the concept of "civil and commercial matters" and "social security" allows us to determine the scope of exclusion of disputes concerning social security in European civil procedural law.

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BHP w Firmie (Work safety in the company) 2023/264 (02)

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• Topic of the issue: Cooperation of structures of several employers in the field of occupational health and safety
  It is not always possible to achieve the goals set by the employer with the use of directly employed personnel - sometimes it is necessary to cooperate with a larger number of entities whose employees perform work in one place and time. This situation is complex especially in the context of ensuring safe working conditions. It requires the cooperation of individual employers and its structures - the OHS service, persons carrying out the obligation to consult in the field of OHS and the social labor inspectorate.
• Tests and measurements of harmful factors - the latest changes in the regulation
  From January 3, 2023, the regulation of the Minister of Health of December 12, 2022 amending the regulation on testing and measurement of factors harmful to health in the work environment (Journal of Laws of 2022, item 2662) has been in force. What are the introduced changes?
• The rules of controlling remote work in a new way
  Providing work outside the workplace significantly reduces the employee's ability to control, but does not exclude it. From the article you will learn what rules of remote work control will be determined by the provisions of the Labor Code after the amendment.

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Bezpieczeństwo Pracy - nauka i praktyka (Work Safety) 2023/01

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• News from the country (2)
• Occupational safety - a common cause (3)
  On November 22-23, 2022, the 25th Conference of the Safe Work Leaders Forum was held in Białystok, entitled "Occupational safety - a common cause". The event organized by the Central Institute for Labor Protection - National Research Institute was accompanied by a ceremonial presentation of cards to the Leaders of Safe Work.
• Awards were presented in the National Competition for the Improvement of Working Conditions (4)
• Winners of the 6th photo and film competition O!signs of work (6)
• Development of the personal protective equipment market - theory or reality (8)
  The awareness of society related to proper working conditions has been systematically growing in recent years, which is helped by new technologies and ways of transmitting information, but also by the continuing fashion for a healthy style and lifestyle. However, when it is not possible to eliminate hazards in the working environment, the need for personal protective equipment increases.
• Activizator+ application supporting people with disabilities in the process of looking for and taking up a job (11)
  Online support for people with disabilities, diseases or logistical problems can have different purposes. In addition to the main one, which is the improvement of well-being and the ability to cope with difficult situations, it also has educational, social and informational aspects. The basic advantages of online social support are: accessibility, indirectness, anonymity and diversity in terms of forms of interaction.

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Bezpieczeństwo Pracy i Ochrona Środowiska w Górnictwie (Work Safety and Environmental Protection in Mining) 2023/01

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• Management of mining waste and earth or rock masses moved in connection with the extraction of minerals from deposits
  The article discusses the legal basis for mining waste management. Data on the amount of mining waste and earth or rock masses generated in 2021 in particular types of mining are also presented. The management of mining waste in 2017-2021 was presented.
• Natural hazards from karst voids
  A full picture of the geological structure of the deposit is obtained only after its exploitation is completed. How to prevent the threats resulting from the construction of the deposit while performing mining works? One of them may result from the presence of karst voids. The article presents what it is and how it is minimized in the Rigips-Stawiany mining plant.

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Aura - Ochrona Środowiska (AURA Environmental Protection) 2023/01

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• COP-27 and what next?
  Annual conferences of the signatories of the Climate Convention should be conducive to climate protection. However, there have been few decisions so far that, like the Paris Agreement of 2015, contain provisions that bring this protection closer. The conference in 2022 was an opportunity to abandon unrealistic dreams of maintaining the temperature increase by 1.5^oC, but it did not bring the mechanism of its maintenance even within 2^oC. It provided an opportunity for numerous seminars and propaganda campaigns, but did not result in the adoption of any binding resolution. In particular, it did not introduce any incentives to make the Paris Agreement commitments more ambitious and likely to reverse the climate catastrophe.
• Odra - only question marks about the sources of the disaster
  Although half a year has passed since the greatest ecological disaster that happened in Poland - the poisoning of the Oder River and the annihilation of biological life in it, so far we do not have a clear position as to what caused it and what effects it actually brought. The report on the Oder commissioned by the government, described by the authors as "preliminary", actually looks like an introduction to the actual document. It gives no answer and leaves even more question marks.
• 15 million people in Poland may experience water shortages
  Another report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been published. It is the result of the work of 270 people from the scientific community around the world. The document is a summary aimed at policymakers and is entitled: "Climate change 2022: Consequences, adaptation and threats". The indicated problems also apply to Poland, including e.g. problems with the availability of drinking water, devastating droughts and extreme weather events. Among the latter, attention was paid to to more severe and deadly heat and floods.
• In 100 years, part of Gdańsk and Hel may be under water
  We most often hear about rising sea levels in the context of small islands in the Pacific that are disappearing due to climate change. However, the deepening problem will affect the coasts of all continents, including Poland. Sea level rise threatens the old part of Gdańsk, Żuławy and the Hel Peninsula - warns the advisory team for the climate crisis at the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Aktualności Ochrony Środowiska (Environmental Protection News) 2023/211 (01)

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• Subject of the issue: What you don't know yet about the report to KOBiZE
  The obliged entities prepare the report for the National Center for Balancing and Management of Emissions (KOBiZE) for the previous year by the end of February. What else do you not know about him?
• Sustainability reporting is now assured
  At the end of November, the European Union finally adopted the Sustainable Development Reporting Directive (hereinafter: the CSRD Directive). What is the conclusion?
• New rates of fines for exceeding the permissible noise level
  In the notice on the rates of fines for exceeding the permissible noise level for 2023, you will find the rates applicable in the new year.
• New penalties in the Energy Law
  The new Act of September 29, 2022 amending the Energy Law Act and the Renewable Energy Sources Act entered into force on December 6, 2022.
• Principles of post-production waste storage in a nutshell
  Question: As part of the production (fish processing) waste is generated, such as disposable clothing (caps, aprons, sleeves), which we classify under the code 15 02 03. The plant has bins in about 20 locations, from where the waste is later transferred to an external container, in where we store them and transfer them to an external company. Do these 20 bins in production, with a capacity of about 35 l each, have to be marked with a waste code and treated as a waste storage site? Is the waste storage site only the collective container set outside that receives waste from these 20 locations? Bins are emptied 2-3 times a day.

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ATEST - ochrona pracy (Certificate - work protection) 2023/01

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• Changes in the statistical sheet of accidents at work
  On January 1, 2023, the regulation of the Minister of Family and Social Policy of December 9, 2022 on the statistical accident card (Journal of Laws of 2022, item 2750) entered into force, which replaced the previous one (of January 7, 2022). 2009).
• More inspections by the National Labor Inspectorate this year
  After the pandemic period, it will be possible to meet labor inspectors in Polish companies again more often. The National Labor Inspectorate announced an increase in the number of inspections this year. As we read in her work plan: she intends to carry out 60 thousand. control. It also devotes more and more time and resources to activities in the field of accident prevention and broadly understood promotion of labor protection.
• Specifics of marine yacht accidents
  The inspiration for writing the following text was an article by Dr. Maciej Kijowski entitled "On the suicides of Polish seafarers on sea ships and their faking in order to cover up the traces of homicides and accidents at work" published in issue 7-8/2022 of Atestu. The article draws attention to the specificity of work on a ship, which, according to Dr. Kijowski results in a significant number of suicides. This specificity consists of isolation (despite being in a group), long periods of lack of personal contact with family, fatigue and working conditions that are different from those on land. The ship, despite modern means of communication, is lonely at sea and dependent on the skills of the captain and crew. The same can be said about a sea yacht. In both cases, it is often impossible to correct the decision made, "drive to the side of the road", remove the fault by roadside assistance, etc. The sea is ruthless and reveals all errors, including seemingly insignificant shortcomings, carelessness and mediocrity.
• A draft amendment to the code provisions on fixed-term employment contracts
  Amendment1, which is to implement into the Polish legal system the provisions of two directives, i.e. Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union (OJ L no. 186, p. 105) and Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers and repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU (Official Journal EU L No. 188, p. 79) will also introduce changes to fixed-term employment contracts. This material brings the essence of these changes closer.

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Polityka Społeczna (Social Policy) 2022/11-12

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• The use of the projective technique method "Chinese portrait" on the example of migration research
  The aim of the text is to convey the experience of qualitative research in the area of migration using the projective technique of the "Chinese portrait" used so far mainly in marketing research and psychology. As part of a scientific project devoted to the perception of Polish and Ukrainian labor markets by Poles and Ukrainians, in order to obtain more detailed opinions of respondents, it was decided to use the "Chinese portrait" projection technique. This brought very interesting results that allowed to verify the information obtained in quantitative and qualitative research conducted using an in-depth interview questionnaire. At the same time, during the implementation of the study, several challenges emerged that required taking into account both the projection technique and data interpretation. The text encourages the use of projective techniques in social research. It also points out the main challenges associated with it and suggests how to deal with them.
• The sense of workload of social workers during the pandemic
  The time of the pandemic is a difficult time for everyone. This situation is also a significant burden for the staff of social welfare institutions. The fact that the institution was approached by people who had not previously been recipients of benefits, as well as the manifestation of negative behavior by clients, creates unfavorable conditions for effective work. In addition, organizational changes related to partly remote work, reduced effectiveness of aid work, lack of sufficient social support from superiors and co-workers reinforce the feeling of overwhelm and exhaustion. The article is empirical in nature. The aim of the research was to diagnose the sense of workload of social workers during the pandemic. The research was conducted in 2021 on a sample of 129 social workers from all over Poland. The selection of the group for the research was purposeful, and the criterion adopted was employment as a social worker in a social assistance centre. The research method was the diagnostic survey method. The results of the research showed that most social workers worked in hybrid mode during the epidemic. They provided psychological support to those in need, coordinated the delivery of food to people in quarantine, or delivered it personally. An important area of work was the support of the elderly. The research results indicate that the vast majority of social workers feel extremely burdened by the fact that social welfare clients try to manipulate them and that they come to the center under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicants. A very significant burden is the fact that the respondents deal with too many customers. For the vast majority of social workers, it is extremely burdensome to achieve remuneration for work that is disproportionate to the workload.

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