RAINING: "Methodology of Providing Job Position Briefing in the Context

of Creating an Attitude Oriented towards Safe Behaviours of Employees"

Module A: Legal Regulation of the Training Process Related to the
Provision of Job Position Briefing

The module presents issues connected with the legal regulation of the
training process in the scope of job position briefing by indicating
applicable legislation, training recipients and competences of
individuals who provide job position briefing.

Individuals providing job position briefing (the employer or a person who

manages employees and has been designated by the employer) have good
professional background in the area related to their job. Training actions,
however, are usually regarded as activity auxiliary to basic professional tasks.
Therefore, those individuals very often do not attach much importance to the
proper organization of provided job position briefing. Thus, there is the need for
constant improvement in that scope so that training can be effective, i.e.
knowledge can be transferred and consolidated in a short time in order to acquire
appropriate skills that will enable independent and safe performance of
professional actions by employees. One should know how to provide briefing to
employees, a vast majority of whom are adults with varied professional
experience and education, often critical of everything around them. Instilling
certain safe work habits minimizes the risk of accidents (Lecyk, 2008).
The aim of the training is to analyse the training process in the scope of
methods of providing job position briefing, with special focus on the role
of training in the context of creating appropriate safe work performance
habits and competences of the instructor.
This study presents basic information about requirements concerning the
provision of job position briefing that will allow to avoid mistakes made by
inexperienced employees.

Legal Grounds
The issues of training related to health and safety at work are governed by
Articles 2372 - 2375 of the Labour Code (Journal of Laws No. 24, item 1411).
Pursuant to their provisions, the employer has to ensure that employees are
familiar with the provisions and principles of health and safety at work concerning
the work they perform. That obligation is met by the employer by providing
appropriate training to the employee before allowing him or her to work and in
the course of performing his or her work. The employer may not allow the
employee to perform work if the employee does not have required qualifications
or necessary skills and knowledge of the provisions and principles of health and

safety at work sufficient for the performance of that work. It should be kept in
mind that the legislator does not require the employer to organize training for the
employee before allowing him or her to work if the employee is returning to work
in the same position he or she occupied with a given employer directly before
concluding a subsequent employment contract with that employer.
Training activity related to providing job position briefing, including detailed
principles of training, scope of training, requirements as to its content, training
documentation and cases when the employee may be excused from training are
specified by the Regulation of the Minister of the Economy and Labour of 27 July
2004 Concerning Training in the Field of Health and Safety at Work (Journal of
Laws No. 180, item 1860, as amended).

Who receives job position briefing?

Job position briefing is provided before the employee is allowed to work in a given
position in respect of:

Employees employed in job positions entailing exposure to factors harmful

to health, strenuous or dangerous (i.e. factors that can cause an accident,
decreasing physical and mental efficiency of the employee and leading to
the worsening of the employee's health condition),

Employees transferred to job positions entailing exposure to factors

harmful to health, strenuous or dangerous,

Already employed employees, in the case of introducing changes in

technical and organizational conditions, in particular changes in the
process of work, changes in the organization of job positions - the
employee employed in that position receives job position briefing
preparing him or her for the safe performance of work in changed
conditions. In that case the employee is not required to receive full briefing
according to a syllabus envisaged for that position. The content and
duration of job position briefing should depend on the type and
scope of changes introduced in the position.

Pupils training for a particular vocation and students undergoing student

training (Journal of Laws No. 180, item 1860, as amended).

Briefing should be provided in a position in which the briefed employee will be

employed. It should be kept in mind that an employee performing work in several
positions should receive job position briefing in each of those positions taking into
account all kinds of work to be included in the scope of the employee's duties
(Journal of Laws No. 180, item 1860, as amended).

What should the competences of an individual providing job position

briefing be like?
Pursuant to the applicable provisions, job position briefing is to be provided by an

individual managing employees and designated by the employer or the employer

himself or herself if those individuals have appropriate professional qualifications
and experience, and have been trained in the scope of methods of providing job
position briefing (Journal of Laws No. 180, item 860, as amended).

Summary
The module presented applicable legislation setting forth principles of providing
job position briefing by indicating provisions contained in the Labour Code and
Regulation of the Minister of the Economy and Labour of 27 July 2004 Concerning
Training in the Field of Health and Safety at Work. It also indicated individuals who
have to receive job position briefing. Attention was drawn to the provision
specifying competences of an individual who provides briefing.
Job position briefing is provided to:
employees starting work in a given position;
pupils and students undergoing professional training;
answers A and B are correct.

An employee receives job position briefing in a given position:

once;
it is hard to tell because in the case of significant organizational changes in a
given position, it is recommended that briefing be provided again;
twice.

Job position briefing can be provided by an individual who:

has knowledge of and experience in work in a given position;
holds a managerial position and has been trained in methods of providing job

position briefing
answers A and B are correct.

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