Aims and scope

“Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy” [Principles and Methods of Assessing the Working Environment] is a quarterly magazine published since 1985, addressed to employers, services and all persons responsible for and interested in preventing risks and creating  a proper working environment.

The journal is a publication of the Interdepartmental Commission for Maximum Admissible Concentrations and Intensities for Agents Harmful to Health in the Working Environment, indispensable in assessing risk related to chemical agents and physical factors in the working environment and in establishing appropriate medical, organizational and technical prevention.

We publish both the source/review articles and materials of the Commission - documentations and methods of determining chemical agents and physical factors at workstations.

Documentations of chemical agents contain proposals for their Polish MAC (Maximum Admissible Concentration) values that will apply in Poland after they are published in the regulation of the minister responsible for labour. Determination methods constitute the basis for draft Polish Standards, which are then included in the standardization process.

We are open to publish scientific articles on various risk factors in the workplace: chemical, physical, biological or psychological.

General conditions of publishing

We do not accept articles that are outside the scope of the journal. 

Publication in “Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy” [Principles and Methods of Assessing the Working Environment] is free of charge.

All articles published in the “Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy” [Principles and Methods of Assessing the Working Environment] quarterly are reviewed by two independent reviewers in accordance with the principle that the reviewer and the author do not know each other’s identity (“double blind” reviews). See also Publication ethics.

Authors submitting their works to the quarterly “Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy” should have a unique ORCID number (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), which is used to identify the authors and their research work in scientific communication. You can register your ORCID number free of charge at: https://orcid.org/.

“Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy” [Principles and Methods of Assessing the Working Environment] is an Open Access journal: all articles are available on the journal’s website at the same time as the printed publication. The articles are available under the CC BY-NC 3.0 license. Each article published in the quarterly receives a digital identifier DOI.