Aktualności BHP (OSH News) 2022/195 (05-06)

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•  News
  • Further changes in the Polish Lada from July 1, 2022 (3)
    The Ministry of Finance presented the current version of the draft tax changes, which are to come into force on July 1, 2022. about the more favorable application of the allowance for seniors, withdrawal from imposing additional obligations on payers and shifting the mechanism of granting a free amount between payers to 2023.
  • New obligations of the employer in relation to the defense of the Fatherland (4)
    The law on the defense of the Fatherland entered into force at the end of April. It introduced protection against dismissal of the future soldier, as well as the soldier's spouse. In addition, the employer may apply for reimbursement of costs if it is necessary to hire a new employee to replace the reservist. What other changes are introduced by the new regulations?
  • Transmission pipelines with hazardous materials - amendment to the regulations (6)
    Transmission pipelines are a type of technical equipment that should have the technical conditions of technical inspection established. The Ministry of Development, Labor and Technology, acting under the statutory authorization, developed a draft regulation on the technical conditions of technical supervision to be met by transmission pipelines transporting hazardous materials with toxic, corrosive or flammable properties. What changes were proposed?
• Control of the National Labor Inspectorate
  • Safety under the control of video monitoring (8)
    The basic condition for the possibility of introducing monitoring of the workplace and the area around the workplace is the safety of employees. In a situation where monitoring is not a necessary activity, and has only been installed just in case, it may be questioned by a labor inspector during an inspection.

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Służby Utrzymania Ruchu (SUR) (Maintenance Service) 2022/02 (03-04)

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• Subject of the issue: Diagnostics
  • Modern techniques in machine diagnostics (6)
    In Industry 4.0, there is less and less space for a foreman with a hammer to tap the housing in search of a potential machine failure. On the other hand, electronics and IIoT are taking up more and more space .
  • Online machine diagnostics (10)
    Currently, technical capabilities have made online machine diagnostics the basis of preventive maintenance. It allows you to increase the availability of machines through early detection of damage, as well as coordination of their repairs.
• Report
  • Automation as a cure for staff shortages (12)
    In the era of the coronavirus pandemic , the search for a drug and vaccine was (or still is) the first need. This situation also meant that we had to verify how our production plants should be run in such situations.
• Concepts
  • Six mistakes in the implementation of autonomous maintenance (15)
    The implementation of autonomous maintenance by many companies is seen as a remedy for problems with the machine package and increasing the involvement of operators in taking care of its condition. However, in order to achieve the set goals and improve cooperation between production and maintenance, it is necessary to avoid a few common mistakes and use a few good practices.
• Prevention
  • Increasing the safety of employees and the workplace - the case study (18)
    Does the company aim to introduce special isolating valves or electrical disconnects for each new production line? When modernizing the enterprise, do the people responsible for the project make sure that LOTO procedures reflect the changes introduced? Is the company sure that it has made every effort to ensure that their employees can perform their duties in a safe environment? If the answer to any of these questions is "no", then the implementation of the LOTO procedure may prove to be not only useful, but also necessary to build a safe production environment.

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Problemy Jakości (Quality Problems) 2022/02

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• Polish Quality Award
  The use of incentives in the global economy to stimulate Comprehensive Quality Management (...) proves that in the modern economy there are similar concepts and standards of quality action. This is evidenced by the prestige of the quality awards. " Professor Katarzyna Szczepańska The importance of the Polish Quality Award has been the concern of many people and entities who have been creating, supporting and taking actions for its implementation for nearly 30 years. The Polish Quality Award as a distinction awarded to organizations for implementing the philosophy of quality management in the previous 25 editions of the competition has become a recognized and important distinction.
• Lean management culture. Measurement and methodology of self-assessment on the example of a selected healthcare organization
  Presentation of selected tools for measuring lean management culture (LM) and the stages of using one of such tools on the example of a selected medical organization. Research design / research methodology / concept: The following research methods were used in the work: review and critical analysis of the literature on the subject, case study method, including analysis of existing (secondary) data, in-depth interview method, self-assessment method using a questionnaire, method of conceptual work, method of analysis, synthesis and logical inference.

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Aktualności Ochrony Środowiska - wydanie specjalne (Environmental Protection News) 2022/98

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• Subject of the issue: Packaging waste management - what you need to know about it
  Defining what is packaging waste management seems easy and intuitive. At the same time, in reality, this process is no longer so obvious and unambiguous. In order to fully understand this term, especially in the context of the new provisions on extended producer responsibility (ROP), one should understand the definitions of packaging, waste, and waste management, and then indicate the obligations of individual participants in the waste management market.

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Aktualności Ochrony Środowiska (Environmental Protection News) 2022/201 (05)

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• Subject of the issue: The current political situation and environmental issues in the EU
  In February, the European Union Council for Competitiveness postponed the implementation of the CSRD directive. Will environmental protection issues be relegated to the background in the current political situation, or is it quite the opposite? You can read more about it in the article below.
• Is the Polish waste management system ready for migration challenges
  In addition to the obvious challenges resulting from the massive influx of people fleeing the war in Ukraine, the Polish municipal waste management system will also be put to the test.
• Polish energy market in the face of new challenges
  The war in Ukraine has significantly changed the energy security situation in our country. State authorities need to take both ad hoc and long-term measures to avoid destabilization.
• Noise emission and its impact on the plant surroundings
  What noise regulations should companies know (and comply) with that emit noise to neighboring areas? Find out in the article.

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UDT Inspektor (TIA Inspector) 2022/01

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• Technology is our passion - interview with Anna Chylińska, director of the Human Resources Department at the Office of Technical Inspection (4)
• Nuclear energy - the role of the Office of Technical Inspection (8)
  Recent years have been a period of a rapidly changing situation on the energy generation and distribution market, and now these changes are gaining momentum. A modern economy requires access to reliable, low-cost, high-efficiency and high-flow electricity sources, as well as access to the necessary fuel.
• Hydrogen - safe storage - part 4 (14)
  In this part of the article, we will present the subject of hydrogen storage, which is a challenge for its further effective implementation in individual industries. So the question that we are going to answer together is: "Can we (and if so) store hydrogen safely?"
• Upper tier and lower tier establishments - SEVESO III Directive (22)
  One of the significant hazards, especially in industrialized countries, is the threat of major industrial accidents, which can often have catastrophic consequences. These are failures in technological or storage facilities with large amounts of chemicals that are hazardous to health, life and the environment. The European Union has created a legal framework indicating ways to prevent and manage risks in industrial plants considered to be hazardous.
• RBI (Risk-Based Inspection) - calculations of the probability of damage to pressure elements as a result of corrosion or erosion - part 4 (27)
  The next part of the series of articles on pressure equipment risk modeling using the RGI methodology is devoted to the calculation of the probability of damage resulting from the impact of degradation mechanisms causing corrosion or erosion pressure components of equipment.

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Monitor Prawa Pracy i Ubezpieczeń (Review of Labor and Insurance Law) 2022/05

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• The subject of the issue
  • Employment of seasonal workers - what form of cooperation is the best
• You need to know about it
  • Employers' obligations under the new law on defense of the Fatherland (4)
  • Reform of PPE, IKE and IKZE - changes from 1 July 2022 (11)
  • Counting the legal stay of Ukrainian citizens in Poland on the basis of a special act - explanations of the Ministry of Interior and Administration (15)
  • Changes in the rules for determining the right to a bridging pension and new powers of the National Labor Inspectorate (18)
  • By 31 May 2022, the first installment of the allowance should be transferred to the company social benefits fund (21)

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Serwis Prawno-Pracowniczy (Legal and Work Service) 2022/09

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• The subject of the month
  • Changes in the obligations of employers towards employees on military service from April 23, 2022 (12)
    From April 23, 2022, the law on the defense of the Fatherland is in force. It includes protection against dismissal of employees called up to perform essential military service. An employer who employed an employee on the day of his appointment to compulsory military service, is obliged to employ him in the previously held position or an equivalent position.
• Labor law
  • Employment of Ukrainian citizens on the basis of a special act (16)
    Due to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and the influx of refugees, simplified procedures for employing Ukrainian citizens in Poland have been implemented. They can be entrusted with work, provided that they notify the competent employment office within 14 days of starting work. The notification should indicate, inter alia, type of contract concluded with a citizen of Ukraine, position or type of work, place of work.

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Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne (Work and Social Security) 2022/04

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• Poland's migration policy from the perspective of the law regulating the area of the labor market. Non-obvious aspects and recent changes
  Poland does not currently have a document that would regulate the assumptions of the national migration policy in a compact, coherent and comprehensive manner. Such a document should cover various areas of the state's functioning. An important part of it, especially in the current economic realities, should be to define the directions of legal regulations for the labor market policy in the field of employing foreigners. This does not mean, however, that Poland has never had a consolidated migration policy, or that work on the preparation of such a document is not carried out. In 2016, the document Polish migration policy - status the current and proposed actions of 2012 have been canceled. Recently, several documents with this level of impact have appeared, prepared either as part of public administration activities or grassroots initiatives. Despite the possibility of classifying them only as projects or proposals, it must be firmly acknowledged that their content reflects both social and political trends and thus constitutes an important point of reference in research into migration-related problems. The increase in the presence of foreigners on the domestic labor market is an undeniable phenomenon, and its further development is certain. For this reason, all legislative measures affecting the access of foreigners to the Polish labor market should be treated as important both from an economic and sociological point of view. They reflect the legislator's will to regulate foreigners' access to the labor market. The subject of the article is to examine the existing legal regulations regarding the access of foreigners to the Polish labor market in order to determine whether, and if so, to what extent, they constitute a normatively coherent image of the residual migration policy. Confrontation of the established legal status with possible directions of its development will allow to build de lege ferenda postulates in terms of migration policy regarding the labor market. The article focuses on those legal aspects of a labor-market focused migration policy that do not seem obvious. Additionally, examples based on changes in the law in force from January 29, 2022 are described.
• Perception of discrimination in employee assessment by employees with disabilities and their superiors
  Publications on people with disabilities are mainly devoted to situations that arise at their interface with the organization. The aspects of recruitment, selection and physical adaptation to the workplace are widely discussed. Most of the research is conducted from the point of view of non-disabled people who need to adapt to and work with employees with disabilities in organizations. On the other hand, few publications are devoted to assessing the work of these employees from their own perspective. The author asks the following questions: Do employees with disabilities and their immediate superiors perceive employee evaluation in a similar way? What criteria are taken into account when assessing the performance of workers with disabilities and their non-disabled colleagues? What attitudes towards work are promoted by superiors? The article discusses the results of a questionnaire survey of employees with disabilities (92 people) and their direct superiors (50 people) employed in open labor market enterprises. They indicate some discrepancies in the perception of employee performance of people with disabilities by both surveyed groups.

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