This Regulation of the Minister of Health sets out the classification and an extensive list of harmful biological agents and lists types of work that may expose workers. It prescribes employer obligations including: conducting and updating occupational risk assessments that account for classification, exposure duration and potential effects; applying all available preventive measures; ensuring hermeticity measures; keeping registers of hazardous work and exposed workers; notification to the competent sanitary inspector; medical measures, vaccination where available; training covering hazards, protective measures and emergency responses; and procedures for safe sampling, transport, decontamination and waste handling.
Poland · 2005-04-22