1. Welcome. We hope that the following materials prepared by us will allow you to actively participate in the training as well as to assimilate necessary knowledge in the field of occupational health and safety in an easy and pleasant way. Please be reminded that the training may be restarted up to the point when the test begins as many times as you wish depending on individual needs. Once the test has been started, returning to the training presentation becomes impossible. The test is to be entered once only. 70% correct answers is the minimum to pass the training.

2. The programme of the training. THE PROGRAMME OF THE TRAINING. THE FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME OF PERIODIC TRAINING . Based on the annex to the order of the Minister of Economy and Labour of 27 July 2004 regarding training in the field of occupational health and safety (JL no. 180, item 1860 with amendments) Lp. THE THEME OF THE TRAINING 1. SOURCES OF THE LAW 2. IDENTIFICATION OF THREATS AND OCCUPATIONAL RISK ASSESSMETN 3. ORGANIZATION OF OFFICE WORK 4. ACCIDENTS 5. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF FIRE PROTECTION 6. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PROVIDING FRISTAID

5. The body of laws and legal rulings regulating working conditions in order to protect worker’s life and health (time of work, leisure, safety and hygiene at work, labour of female and juvenile workers). WORK PROTECTION: WORKER: A person employed based on an employment contract, calling, choice, appointment or a collective employment contract. EMPLOYER: The organizational unit, even if not a legal entity, as well as a legal person if he/ she employs workers. WORK RELATIONSHIP: By establishing work relationship the employee is obliged to perform work of a specified kind for the employer, under his/ her supervision, in the place and during the time determined by the employer, and the employer is obliged to employ the worker for pay. Definitions

6. SOURCES OF THE LAW

7. Article 66 1. Everyone shall have the right to safe and hygienic conditions of work. The methods of implementing this right and the obligations of employers shall be specified by statute. 2. An employee shall have the right to statutorily specified days free from work as well as annual paid holidays; the maximum permissible hours of work shall be specified by statute. CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND Legal Regulations

8. The system of work protection in Poland

17. ATTENTION !!! For the time during which the worker restrains from performing work or leaves the place of danger, in the cases discussed above, he/ she keeps the right to receive pay. If restraining him-/ herself from performing the work does not remove a direct threat to life or health of the worker, the employee has the right to leave a place of danger, promptly notifying his/ her supervisor about it Art. 210 LC Rights of the worker An employer who does not obey

22. Procedures for inflicting punishment § 1. The punishment cannot be inflicted after the period of 2 weeks from learning about the violation of the worker’s duty and after the period of 3 months after the violation was committed. § 2. The punishment can be inflicted only following hearing the worker. § 3. If, because of absence in the workplace, the worker cannot be heard, the 2-week period provided in § 1 does not begin and if it has already began it is suspended until the day the worker reports for work Liability for the violations of rules and regulations of occupational health and safety EMPLOYEES’ DISCIPLINARY LIABILITY Art. 109 LC

33. The employer must not permit an employee begin work if he/ she has not shown a valid medical opinion confirming the lack of contraindications for work at a given position. Medical examinations of the workers

40. Juvenile workers’ protection DEFINITION A juvenile, as described in the Labour Code, is a person who has attained the age of 16 and has not yet attained the age of 18.

49. ATTENTION !!! Pregnancy should be confirmed by doctor’s certificate Female workers’ protection RIGHTS CONNECTED WITH MOTHERHOOD

51. Pracodawca jest obowiązany udzielić pracownicy ciężarnej zwolnień od pracy – z zachowaniem prawa do świadczeń – na zalecone przez lekarza badania lekarskie przeprowadzone w związku z ciążą, jeżeli te badania nie mogą być przeprowadzone poza godzinami pracy. RIGHTS CONNECTED WITH MOTHERHOOD Female workers’ protection

59. First aid posts and places where first aid kits are kept should be marked in an appropriate way. Work stations THE SYSTEM OF FIRST AID