Occupational health and safety (OHS) is a set of rules and provisions concerned with creating working conditions that do not endanger the life and health of workers.

Basic OHS requirements are described in Chapter X of Polish Labour code, the regulation on general occupational health and safety provisions (JoL. of 1997, No. 129, item 844 as amended), Polish Standards, and other regulations. The National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) supervises the compliance with OHS rules and provisions.

The summer has finally arrived and it's a holiday season. What's more, we have just finished a series of lessons about different stages of building a home. It seems a good time to brush up your English and revise vocabulary and expressions related to the construction industry. Complete the following tasks and check what you remember from all the fourteen lessons published in „Inżynier Budownictwa” monthly starting from March 2015.

Once a house is constructed, its acceptance must be carried out for you to be able to legally live in it. To do so you must take care of many formalities, in particular collect the necessary documents, and then submit them to the relevant Construction Supervision Inspectorate together with a notice of completion of construction and an application for occupancy permit.

An already built and beautifully finished house does not mean the end of building works. One should still take care of its surroundings. After all, no one wants to live on a construction site. On the contrary, we want to have a nice, well-ordered and functional plot, which will be the pride of our home and, along with it, will fit into a harmonious whole.

Carrying out the electrical installation works includes electrical service connection, concealed installations (wiring) as well as electrical equipment. When dealing with wiring, you should remember to install telecom cabling systems (interphones, telephones, antennas, computer networks, etc.) as well as an alarm system.

The main task of the central heating system is to ensure proper temperature in usable rooms, thereby providing thermal comfort for occupants. The choice of a home heating system has a significant impact on its future running costs, energy consumption, as well as air pollution (smog). The domestic central heating is often installed along with the hot water system.

By definition, insulation is a barrier separating the two adjacent systems, elements or spaces of different properties to prevent or hinder their interaction. Insulation also protects the building's interior from external influences, as well as creates a comfortable microclimate for the people staying there.

The floor serves as a finishing element for horizontal partitions of the building. It usually consists of several layers and should be done after plastering, as one of the last finishing works. The floor provides thermal, acoustic and damp insulation, transfers the loads, as well as is an essential element in interior design.