Human resources selection and trainings for inspectors in the State Sanitary Inspection in Poland

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Human resources selection and trainings for
inspectors in the State Sanitary Inspection in
Poland

• Magdalena Noganska
• Chief Sanitary Inspectorate
• Department of Environmental Hygiene
• The State Sanitary Inspection

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Structure of employment in the SSI in 2006-2007
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Percentage of employees of basic and
administrative activity and service
On the basis of the Report no MZ-45a for 2007
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Basic qualification

• Legal sources
• The act on State Sanitary Inspection of 14
  March1985
• Regulation of Ministry of Health from 9 Spetmeber
  2002 concerning organization and mode of action
  sanitary-epidemiological stations.

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Qualification of staff Requirements 1
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Qualification of staff Requirements 2
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State sanitary inspector- requirments

• 1) is a citizen of Poland,
• 2) has full capacity to perform acts in law and
  possesses all public rights,
• 3) is a physician or attained the area
  specialisation under procedures prescribed in
  other regulations, or is a graduate of other
  higher school and attained an area specialisation
  in medicine,
• 4) through her civil attitude gives the guarantee
  of proper execution of tasks of an employee of a
  state organ,
• 5) is in the health condition allowing for
  employment at the specific post.

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System of trainings
Continuing education
Central Chief Sanitary Inspectorate
Internal Chief Sanitary Inspectorate
VSI
PSI
VSI
PSI
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Central meetings

• Department of Environmental Hygiene
• Divison Work of Hygiene
• 1. Meetings with Heads of Unit- 4/year VSI
• - business trip 1
• - central 3
• 2. Meetings with chemical network inspector -
  thematic debates VSI 2/year VSI
• - internal expert
• - expert from other authorities
• - external expert

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Trainings in the frame of PHARE project

• PHARE 2001 Chemical Directives and
  Administration programme
• In 2001 the European Commission has accepted the
  Chemicals Directives and Administration
  programme. Its aim is to protect human health and
  the environment from the adverse effects of
  chemical products. The programmes principal
  objectives are the implementation of EU
  regulations on marketing and use of chemical
  products as well as the improvement of
  surveillance over the marketing and use of
  chemicals. The programme provides forTraining
  courses for the staff of surveillance
  authorities. The courses shall involve the
  Sanitary Inspection, Labour Inspection,
  Environment Protection Inspection, Trade
  Inspection and the Customs Services

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Trainings of inspectors

• 90 inspectors of Sanitary Inspection were trained
• 6 inspectors took part in study visit in Sweden

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PROS AND CONS OF TRAININGS

• PROS
• trainings were vey useful
• scrutinize way of controls of chemical
  substances and preparations concerning with
  classifications and labeling
• the way how to check SDS
• the most often mistakes which are made in SDS and
  in the labeling

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PROS AND CONS OF TRAININGS

• strengthening contacts between inspectors
• informal level expert network
• practical exercises
• knowledge and experience of trainers at the high
  level

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PROS AND CONS OF TRAININGS

• CONS
• real common control of producer or importer
• exercises on chemical products placing on Polish
  market

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What was done during the project?

• trainings of about 90 inspectors from poviat and
  voivodship inspectorates (classifications,
  labeling, SDS)
• establishing of chemical expert network from
  trained inspectors

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Trainings in the frame of PHARE project

• PHARE 2002 - "Strengthening the administrative
  capacity for risk assessment and chemicals
  control" PHARE 2002 project - an overviewPHARE
  2002 project - an overviewIn 2003 the European
  Commission accepted the project Strengthening of
  the administrative capacity for risk assessment
  and chemicals control in PHARE 2002 framework.
• The main aims of the project are
• Further development of the human resources and
  infrastructure of authorities responsible for
  enforcement of compliance with legislation
  concerning placing on the market and the use of
  chemicals through1. improvement of the
  capabilities of the staff of selected sanitary
  inspectorates through the short-term study visits
  in selected EU Member States.

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Trainings of inspectors

• 60 inspectors of Sanitary Inspection were trained
  ( 3 rounds of train.)
• 18 inspectors took part in 3 study visit in
  Germany (Dortmund) and Austria in Viena

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Additional activities

• Common inspection in Merck
• Common inspection in Anwil
• Pilot exercise concerning dangerous chemical in
  toys (Cd, Azodayes, phtalates)
• Guidance for compiling SDS
• Vademecum for labeling and SDS of dangerous
  substances and preparations

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Trainings in the frame of TF project

• Twinning Project PL2004/IB/EN-01
• Preparation for the implementation of the
  legislative package REACH
• The overall objective of this Twinning project is
  to assist the Republic of Poland in the
  sustainable preparation and implementation of the
  new European policy concerning chemicals,
  contained in the legislative package REACH
  (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation and
  Restriction of Chemicals).

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Trainings in the frame of TF project

• Training for voivodship sanitary inspectorates
  and some local sanitary inspectorates in order to
  introduce REACH and GHS
• 4 trainings for State Sanitary Inspection and
  State Sanitary Inspection of the Ministry of
  Internal Affairs and Administration 122
  participants
• 1 training for Environmental Inspection 25
  participants

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TF project

• Training for supervisory bodies (Inspection of
  Environmental Protection, Labour Inspection,
  Trade Inspection, Customs Services) in order to
  introduce REACH and GHS
• 1 training for TI 32 participants
• 2 trainings for CS 26 28 participants
• 1 training for LI 42 participants

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Additional activities

• Revision of guidance manual for inspections
• Revision of guidance manual for Safety Data
  Sheets (SDS)
• Integration of Polish enforcement bodies into the
  Chemical Legislation European Enforcement Network
  (CLEEN)
• 8th CLEEN Conference
• Study visit to Umweltbundesamt, Austria

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Summary

• Growth in higher educated staff
• Decline in low educated staff
• Usage of internal knowledge for trainings
• Growth of awareness of advantages comes from
  PHARE and TF projects
• Big benefits from PHARE and TF projects

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Thank you for your attention
Magdalena Noganska senior specialists
m.noganska_at_gis.gov.pl Chief Sanitary
Inspectorate Department of Environmental
Hygiene ul. Dluga 38/40 00-238 Warszawa phone.
(48) 22 536 1476 fax. [phone]