- News
- Employees' sobriety checks without fear of punishment from the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) (3)
Preventive sobriety checks carried out by employers have been controversial for many years. Two values clash: the employer's obligation to provide all employees with safe and hygienic working conditions and the broadly understood privacy of employees. As we already informed in the last issue, a draft amendment to the Labor Code has appeared, which will enable employers to control the sobriety of employees. According to our expert, if the provisions enter into force in the proposed form, employers will eventually gain satisfactory control procedures.
- The National Labor Inspectorate (PIP) will check whether you have performed the obligations related to the PPK (5)
The obligations resulting from the provisions of the PPK Act. Which documents do you need to take care of in order not to face a fine?
- The National Labor Inspectorate (PIP) inspects construction cranes (5)
As the Chief Labor Inspector informed, on June 1, 2021, the National Labor Inspectorate started inspections of construction cranes on construction sites all over the country. The correct use of tower and quick- assembly cranes was under the PIP's scrutiny . PIP controls, above all, the safe organization of work with the use of these machines.
- The Polish Deal disappoints employers (6)
The program document "Polish Deal" mentions employees - in various contexts - 22 times. Only 6 employers. This is significant, because taking into account all the solutions concerning work proposed in the program, it seems that the employer and his needs count the least.
- Mobbing during an epidemic - what behaviors are not allowed (7)
A crisis caused by a pandemic is a challenge for employers and employees, especially those experiencing behaviors that may be considered mobbing . Paradoxically, the pandemic contributes to the exacerbation of unfavorable psychosocial phenomena in the work environment. Therefore, owners of companies or institutions should make efforts to ensure that their subordinates comply with the rules of epidemic safety. And employees of the OHS service should also advise the employer to include issues closely related to the current epidemic situation in the existing anti-mobbing procedures .
- Recipes with a comment
- Get ready to implement the EU Directive on whistleblower protection (8)
The EU Directive on whistleblower protection will come into force on 17 December 2021. By that time, you will have time to audit health and safety procedures. what should you pay special attention to? How do the provisions of this directive translate into health and safety issues?
- Health and safety service - 22 tasks
- Participation in determining the circumstances and causes of accidents at work (10)
The circumstances and causes of the accident are determined by the post-accident team appointed by the employer, which includes an employee of the occupational health and safety service and a social labor inspector. In the absence of OHS service, the accident team includes the employer or an employee employed at other work, to whom the employer entrusted the performance of the tasks of the occupational health and safety service, or a specialist from outside the workplace. It is worth being aware that the role of an occupant of the health and safety service or a person performing its tasks does not end only with an accident investigation.
- Working conditions
- Does the change of the name of the job result in an obligation to undergo a medical examination (11)
A provision in the Labor Code stating that the employer may not allow an employee to work without a valid medical certificate stating that there are no contraindications to work on a specific position under the working conditions described in the examination medical, may cause some doubts. Is Wrazie change only the names of jobs it gives rise to a preliminary medical examination again? What if an employee has new responsibilities?
- How to survive the heat at work - instructions for an employee (12)
Heat waves can make work very difficult, especially when you spend several hours in a non-air-conditioned room. On the other hand, air conditioning can also be a nightmare for an employee who suffers from allergies or easily catches a cold. How to help yourself without forgetting your colleagues? The material contains instructions for employees on how to ensure comfort and safety at work on hot days. It provides tips on how to survive hot days at work and keep yourself and your colleagues healthy.
- The subject of the issue
- COVID-19 Infections Among Workers - Can Employers Know About Them? (14)
While the epidemic has clearly slowed down, it doesn't mean workers won't get sick with COVID-19. Unfortunately, it happens more and more often that sick people in the summer do not report L4, but take holidays (all in order to avoid quarantine in the summer). Can an employer obtain information about infections among employees as well as people employed under civil law contracts? Which laws allow this? How to reconcile sanitary regulations, the Labor Code and the GDPR in this situation?
- Accidents at work
- Accident analysis - a serious accident during the assembly of reinforcement (17)
In the article we present an analysis of an accident at work which occurred at the construction site on the working platform. What exactly happened and what were the causes of the accident in the opinion of the labor inspector?
- Should material damage be entered in the student's accident report (18)
In relation to the case under consideration, the template of the accident report obliges to indicate in item 6 - a description of the accident with the reasons. Therefore, it is necessary to provide all information regarding the accident, including a description of the material losses that have occurred.
- Is the driver's accident on the way to the vehicle an accident on the way to work (19)
If the car is at the base and the driver is commuting to it (eg from home), this time is his rest time. If the vehicle was off base, the driver's drive to it would be considered 'other work' and not rest. From the point of view of regulations governing accidents at work, regardless of whether the tachograph shows rest or other work, the driver driving from home to base is in the process of commuting to work.
- Safety training
- Relaxing restrictions and the possibility of conducting stationary health and safety training (20)
The mere relaxation of the restrictions related to the COVID-19 epidemic in the provisions of the Regulation on the establishment of certain restrictions, orders and bans in connection with the outbreak of an epidemic is not yet the basis for resuming the process of organizing and conducting training periodic. Changes at the statutory level are necessary in the scope of the Act of March 2, 2020 on special solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and combating of COVID-19, the provisions of which suspended the obligation to conduct periodic training.
- COVID-19 and OHS
- The procedure for reporting adverse vaccination reactions in connection with COVID-19 (21)
Vaccination against COVID-19 appears to be optimal as long as a prophylactic agent linked to combating the spread in the long term cziasu . In practice, however, it cannot be ruled out that an undesirable post-vaccination reaction, i.e. a health disorder that occurred within 4 weeks after vaccination, will occur after vaccination. The occurrence of such a post-vaccination reaction may affect the employee's ability to work, including his safety. Undesirable post-vaccination reactions are reported by doctors or medical assistants to the poviat sanitary inspector. As the information deal with health and, as such, is subject to special protection - it should be assumed that the declaration on the evaluation of the undesirable post-vaccination reaction doctor should be directly to the employee, not the employer.
- Health and safety instructions
- Safety instructions for the operation of the free fall concrete mixer (23)
- Poster
- Chest Compression Instructions (24)
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