I instance

Suspicion

 Suspected case is referred to a suitable district
 sanitary inspector or a suitable provincial labour
 inspector.

 Diagnosing

Certifying 

 Physician with suitable training (in occupational
 medicine) employed in one of the certifying
 institutions:

  ·         occupational disease outpatient and in-patient clinic departments of the provincial occupational medicine centres

  ·         occupational disease outpatient and in-patient clinics of medical universities (medical academies)

  ·         contagious disease outpatient clinics of provincial occupational medicine centres or provincial-level contagious disease in- and outpatient clinics – for contagious and parasitic occupational diseases

  ·         organizational units of heath care complexes where the patent was hospitalised – for diagnosing of occupational diseases in patients hospitalised for acute symptoms of the disease.

 Ascertainment

Administrative decision

 Proper district sanitary inspector

II instance

Appeal procedure

 Diagnosing

Certifying

 Physician with suitable qualifications (in occupational
 medicine) employed in an occupational medicine
 scientific research unit.

 Ascertainment

Administrative decision

 Proper provincial (voivodeship) sanitary inspector