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project info
Start date: 1 March 2025
End date: 31 December 2027
funding
Fund: European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
Total budget: 851 327,52 €
EU contribution: 702 515,47 € (82,52%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

Increasing the competences of employees of the State Sanitary Inspectorate in the field of food and nutrition safety, environmental hygiene and radiation hygiene

The main objective of the project is to increase the health safety of citizens in the area of activities carried out by the State Sanitary Inspectorate (SSI) by increasing the knowledge and professional competence of SSI employees necessary to carry out tasks in the field of environmental hygiene, including water health safety, municipal hygiene, hygiene and sanitation, occupational hygiene, radiation hygiene and official control of food safety, including sampling, control of requirements for primary production, hygiene and the HACCP system. Main results of the project:1. improving the knowledge and professional competence of 4 474 SSI employees 2. introducing a risk-based approach in the area of water safety 3. implementing a risk-based approach to the supervision of sanitary and hygienic conditions 4. increasing the effectiveness of supervision of food safety and improving the quality of control of the HACCP system, as well as increasing the knowledge of persons responsible for the control of primary production 5. improving risk awareness and increasing the health safety of employees exposed to harmful factors in the workplace. The target group of the project will be employees of PIS units, i.e. GIS, GSEZ, WSEZ, PSES cooperating and performing tasks in the field of: water health safety, hygienic and sanitary conditions, including the health safety of workers exposed to harmful factors in the work environment, radiation hygiene and food safety, indicated by the management of sanitary and epidemiological stations and the management of the GIS. Under the project, direct support is planned to cover a total of 5,263 employees, including 3,684 women and 1,579 men from 344 SSI units located throughout the country. Real tasks within the project: Zad. 1: Training for SSI employees in the field of water health safety Zad. 2: Training for SSI employees in the field of supervision in the area of municipal hygiene Zad. 3: Training for employees of the SSI in the field of occupational health in the area of exposure to harmful biological agents, carcinogens, mutagens or reprotoxic and physical agents in the work environment 4: Training in the field of response to radiological emergencies Zad. 5: Training in the assessment of the performance of basic tests of radiological devices and auxiliary devices. Zad. 6: Organisation of on-line training in the field of food safety in 3 thematic areas. Task 7: Organization of in-house expert training in the field of food safety. Task 8: Preparation of an educational film on official sampling. The proposed actions will have an impact on the development and support of postgraduate education of representatives of other health professions and will also increase the institutional capacity of public administration and the quality of tasks performed in the following areas: -in the area of health-free water, improve the quality of supervision by SSI authorities over the health safety of water intended for human consumption, municipal hygiene, hygiene and sanitary safety. in the area of radiological hygiene in the area of radiological emergencies, as well as the use of atomic energy and ionising radiation in the energy sector and in medicine, will allow for the improvement of the control mode in health institutions - in the area of occupational hygiene, they will allow for the improvement of the control mode in entities where there is exposure to harmful factors in the working environment, - in the area of food safety supervision, they will allow for the improvement of the implementation of control activities in food industry enterprises, including not only entrepreneurs but also primary production, and will improve the quality of official food sampling by persons employed in the SSI.

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