Health and Safety for Manual and Production Workers (Poland): Knowledge Refresher

Yes, but your employer organises it. Under Article 237³ of the Labour Code (Kodeks pracy) and the regulation on occupational health and safety training, the employer provides initial training before you start work and periodic training afterwards: for manual workers at least once every 3 years, and for especially dangerous work at least once a year. Training takes place during working hours and at the employer's expense. This course can refresh your knowledge before such training. Whether the employer accepts it, and whether it is enough, is up to the employer.

No. You receive a certificate of completion: it records that the lessons were completed and the test passed. It is not a training attestation (zaświadczenie) or a training record card within the meaning of the regulation, it is not a regulated or accredited qualification, and it does not replace the authorisations required for particular work, for example operating a forklift or working with technical equipment. Whether the course meets the company's needs is up to the employer.

No. The course covers general knowledge. The employer must still assess occupational risk itself, give the workstation instruction (instruktaż stanowiskowy) covering the hazards of your workstation, teach you the practical tasks, issue PPE, arrange medical examinations and keep the training records. An online course cannot provide any of this.

Under § 15 of the regulation of 27 July 2004, manual workers are trained at least once every 3 years, and those doing especially dangerous work at least once a year. The first periodic training should take place within 12 months of starting work at the workstation. This is why the course certificate is valid for 36 months. That is our own period, not a legal requirement. For especially dangerous work, the employer arranges more frequent training.

No. The course covers such work only in general terms. Work at height, in tanks, on machines or with chemicals requires training at the workstation, instructions, suitable equipment and often additional authorisations or medical examinations. The employer provides these.

For manual and production workers, for example in a warehouse, in production, in auxiliary construction work, in cleaning and in maintenance. The course does not cover office work or management and engineering posts, for which the regulations set other training programmes.

Most people need about an hour and a half for the lessons and the test, some longer. You can read the lessons in stages and come back to them later. The test has 25 questions, and you need at least 80% correct answers to pass.

Nothing happens. You will see which lessons are worth repeating, and you can take the test again as many times as you like. The course and the test are free.

Only after you pass the test: 49 PLN for the PDF certificate of completion. The course and the test are free.

Every certificate has a number and a QR code. After scanning the code or entering the number on our verification page, you will see the name, the course title and the date the test was passed.

The course is based on the regulations in force in October 2026, including the regulation on BHP training as amended from 12 December 2025 (among other things, electronic confirmation of instruction). Regulations change. In disputed matters, check the current text in the Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) or on the website of the National Labour Inspectorate (Państwowa Inspekcja Pracy, PIP).