[The labor potential in occupational health services at the provincial level before the occupational health services act came into effect].

The author evaluates how far the personnel of occupational health services (OHS) at the provincial level is ready to undertake and implement the tasks provided by the Occupational Health Services Act at the eve of its coming into force. Personnel resources of OHS differ depending on the region. This applies to all groups of workers and is generally related to the provincial regulations and employment policy.

[New principles of reporting in occupational health services--bureaucracy or an effective marker instruments?].

A several-year process of transformation in occupational health services (OHS) was concluded with the Occupational Health Services Act adopted by Polish Parliament on 27 June 1997. By the time the Act came into effect, a whole series of executive regulations had been lain down. The Act like its executive regulations came into force on 1 January 1998.

[Transformation of ownership in occupational health services].

The process of the ownership transformation in occupational health services began in 1991. At that time Section X of the Labour Code was amended by introducing the system according to which employers participate in the costs of organization of occupational health services and other expenditure involved in health care of their workers. In addition, the Health Service Institutions Act of August 30, 1991 prepared the ground for the organization of health care units by various economic subjects including employers if the responsibility for taking care of workers' health is included in the statute of such a unit.