SAWO 2022

Ensuring safe working conditions, health care and also effective rescue operations during emergency, is increasingly often achieved through the use of modern and innovative technologies such as virtual reality or drones. The most current trends in this area were presented at the SAWO International Exhibition of Work Protection, Firefighting and Rescue, held on 25-27 April in Poznań.

Knowledge and experience – together for safety

SAWO is Europe’s biggest exhibition of occupational safety and rescue services, during which manufacturers and distributors of safety and rescue equipment present their latest offer along with accompanying meetings and conferences on safety in a wide scope.

During the trade fair, there were also accompanying events, including a conference organised by the National Work Inspectorate and CIOP-PIB on “Physical strain, stress, noise, viruses – occupational hazard factors and causes of work disability”, during which specialists discussed the most current issues concerning the provision of safe working conditions, lectures by Step2Safety and Safety Media on safety culture and occupational risk management, and a seminar by the Management Board of the Polish National Association of Occupational Health and Safety Services Employees, during which members of the association discussed good practices in the implementation of the ISO standard concerning occupational health and safety management systems.

“Seeing” is often the first step to “understanding”

The culminating moment of the exhibition was a dynamic demonstration of the rescue activities performed by professional groups of the State Fire Service, which included members of the search and rescue group with tracking dogs, the high altitude rescue group, the chemical-ecological group and the technical rescue group, together with a demonstration of the mobile professional robot IBIS. The simulated rescue action allows the participants to familiarize with the occurring hazards and the method of evacuating the injured from the wreckage of the car and providing them medical help, including full chemical and ecological support.

The participation of Mining Engineering and Occupational Safety Department staff member from our Faculty in this event allowed to get familiar with the most modern solutions applied in the field of safety, which directly translates into the increase of didactic potential of the newly created 2nd degree course – Safety Engineering. Ensuring safe working conditions, safety of the environment and technical facilities not only requires the use of innovative solutions and tools, but also a utilitarian approach to the issue of human activity in work processes combining knowledge, experience and readiness to face the demands of ensuring safety in the modern world full of current challenges.

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