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Educational activities for effective improvement of safety and health protection of employees
11 May 2023 What's new

Educational activities for effective improvement of safety and health protection of employees

In terms of preventive measures aimed at reducing the accident rate in the Polish mining industry, improving working conditions and reducing the number of occupational diseases, the State Mining Authority, together with the Social Insurance Institution in Warsaw, organised training workshops in the field of: Educational activities for effective improvement of safety and health protection of employees.

Report on the activities of mining authorities in 2022
19 April 2023 What's new

Report on the activities of mining authorities in 2022

The State Mining Authority summarised the activities of mining authorities in 2022. The document is cyclical and for years it provided information on, among others, administrative, control, repressive, legislative, information and publishing activities of mining authorities.

23rd “Problems of safety and health protection in the Polish mining industry” conference
31 March 2023 What's new

23rd “Problems of safety and health protection in the Polish mining industry” conference

The 23rd “Problems of safety and health protection in the Polish mining industry” conference, organised under the honorary patronage of the Minister of State Assets, took place in Zawiercie on 30 and 31 March.

34th meeting of the ATEX AdCo group
8 March 2023 What's new

34th meeting of the ATEX AdCo group

On Tuesday, 7 March, the 34th meeting of the ATEX AdCo group was held in the form of a teleconference.

State of occupational safety in mining in 2022
19 January 2023 What's new

State of occupational safety in mining in 2022

The main causes of total accidents in 2022 were the following: people tripping, slipping or falling over; being hit with work tools or hitting other objects; falling, rolling off, sliding of rock masses and lumps, rockfall from the ceiling or side of the work, cave-ins; falling, rolling off, sliding of objects/materials.

Installation of a jubilee time capsule of the State Mining Authority
22 December 2022 What's new

Installation of a jubilee time capsule of the State Mining Authority

The final days of 2022 coincide with the completion of the centenary celebrations of the mining supervisory authorities in independent Poland. A commemorative time capsule ceremony was held on 22 December.

Signing of cooperation agreement with the Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection
14 December 2022 What's new

Signing of cooperation agreement with the Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection

On Wednesday, 14 December, an agreement was officially signed at the headquarters of the State Mining Authority (WUG) in Katowice between the WUG and the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (GIOŚ) on cooperation between the two entities within the scope of their respective competences and statutory tasks.

Ceremonial academy on the occasion of Barbórka of the mining supervision
29 November 2022 What's new

Ceremonial academy on the occasion of Barbórka of the mining supervision

On 29 November this year, the Miners' Supervision held its Barbórka celebrations in Katowice. It began with a Mass in the Church of St Apostles Peter and Paul, celebrated by Archbishop Wiktor Skworc, Metropolitan Archbishop of Katowice. During the mass, the new banner of the State Mining Authority, founded on the occasion of the Authority's centenary anniversary in June this year, was consecrated.

AdCo ATEX group meeting
28 November 2022 What's new

AdCo ATEX group meeting

The 33rd meeting of the ATEX AdCo group - the European working group for administrative cooperation in the area of Directive 2014/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres - was held in Brussels on 22-23 November.

Halina Krahelska Award for Zbigniew Rawicki
18 November 2022 What's new

Halina Krahelska Award for Zbigniew Rawicki

The Director of the Mining Department of the State Mining Authority Zbigniew Rawicki was honoured with the Halina Krahelska Award by the Chief Labour Inspector Katarzyna Łażewska-Hrycko. The award ceremony took place on 17 November in the Great Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

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