The Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute  has been organising the occupational safety poster competition since 1997. The purpose of the competition is to  obtain posters promoting the issues of occupational  safety and health protection of man in the working environment.

 The competition is organised in cooperation with Academies of Fine Arts  (Cracow, Warsaw, Lodz) and under the patronage of the Minister of Labour and  Social Policy and Chief Labour Inspector. The participants are artists,  professors and students of artistic universities in Poland and abroad. The jury  of the competition consists of representatives of artistic professions,  science, ministries of health and labour, and trade unions, as well as  enterprises whose business is related to the topic of the posters.

 

Three prizes and five honorary mentions are awarded in the competition, and 50 posters are selected for exhibitions in  Warsaw and Cracow.

The 33 editions of the competition, held in 1997-2024 were entitled  Stress, Computer, Occupational Risk, Noise, Chemistry, Ergonomics, Agriculture, Building industry, School, Transport,  Electricity, Disabled persons, Biohazards, Stop that noise, Young workers -  safe start, Lighten the load, Labour culture, Risk, lighting, Maintenance,  Active 50+, Stress in 21st century, Computer world, Work and leisure and Safety First, Safe From The Start, The office, Depression, Biohazards today, Industry 4.0, Communication, 21 century construction industry, Fire.  They gathered about 600  designs, and over 1700 were featured in exhibitions and catalogues.

In 2008 the Institute issued PLAKATY/POSTERS - a  catalogue of posters devoted to the issues of occupational  safety and health protection of man in the working environment, containing 925 pictures of posters from the Institute’s  collection, including archived posters – 49 from the pre-war period, 73 from  post-war years, and 803 posters from 16 editions of the contest. The catalogue  was awarded a honorary mention in the 49th competition „Beautiful Books 2008”.

For all information related to the contest, please contact the curator.
Anna Borkowska
Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute
Czerniakowska 16, 00-701 Warsaw
e-mail: anna.borkowska@ciop.pl