- Storage of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals (1)
Is the employer obliged to store chemical reagents classified as: GHS06 (acute toxicity category 1, 2 or 3), GHS07 (acute toxicity category 4, skin or eye irritation, skin sensitization), GHS08 (carcinogenic, mutagenic or effect on reproduction, the so-called CMR, toxic effect on critical organs in single or chronic exposure, respiratory sensitization) and drug precursors of category 2A (acetic anhydride) in containment, i.e. in a way that prevents their acquisition by unauthorized persons?
- Working conditions
- Work under exposure to asbestos in a facility taken over by a new employer (2)
The provisions regulating the issue of occupational diseases do not specify the issue of the employer's liability in the event of the transfer of the workplace to a new employer - where the occupational exposure, significant in the context of the procedure for establishing an occupational disease, occurred at the employer who was taken over. It is difficult to talk about the responsibility in the field of technical safety of work for a new employer who does not work with asbestos. An increase in contributions (for accident insurance) can only be said when two consecutive inspections of the labor inspector have revealed gross deficiencies in the field of health and safety.
- Measurements during work in exposure to the respirable fraction of crystalline silica (3)
The employer is currently measuring the following factor: dusts containing free (crystalline) silica - inhalable fraction - respirable fraction - quartz, cristobalite. After the entry into force of the new provisions on NDS, are we obliged to carry out tests on all workplaces present in the plant, or on those that have been tested so far for dust? Can we wait until the deadline in the previous report to take the measurements, where the measurements were made before the change of regulations in September 2019?
- Risk category for a given group of activities (4)
How is the employer supposed to verify which risk category for a given activity group he belongs to? Is it determined by the employer himself or does the Social Insurance Institution assign this category?
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