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Alongside the Safety at Work Act (N.N., Nos. 59/96, 94/96, 114/03 and 100/04), other supporting legislation (implementation provision) has been passed. The legislation in question is the Safety and Health Regulations in Using Working Equipment (N.N., No. 21 of 18 February 2008). The Regulations set out the obligations of both employer and employee with regard to use of working equipment. For working equipment incorporated into buildings, aside from the Regulations, special provisions regarding physical planning and building are implemented. The paper stresses the specific importance of the Regulations, which came into force on 26 February 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the complex and dynamic man - vehicle - environment system, alongside human and environmental factors, a significant factor for traffic safety is the proper functioning of various means of transportation and their equipment, in other words, the functioning of certain components of basic vehicular systems. Proper functioning of these components depends on specified project and operational features and conditions of installation and use, as well as control procedures before and after their placing on the market. The air brake system is an especially important vehicular system which integrates a large number of different positions. From a safety perspective, one of them is particularly important: the air tank, a pressure vessel which poses a security risk in both its working phase and its idle phase. For this reason air brake system tanks of motor and rail vehicles fall into the category of products that require harmonization of pertinent national legislations in order to protect the internal European market from unsafe and hazardous products. This paper analyzes essential safety requirements as stated in the Directive 87/404/EEC and in harmonized standards of the EN 286-1 to 4 series, which support this Directive and refer to serially manufactured pressure vessels used in air brake systems and auxiliary systems of motor and rail vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]