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Abstract The epidemic is affecting the global economy, plunging many industries. The global scale of the epidemic and government controls, restrictions and constraints have led to imbalances in world trade and have put many companies under pressure. The epidemic is a test of individual companies’ ability to operate effectively under new conditions, including occupational risk management. The research was conducted using a questionnaire method, the study was attended by 199 respondents. The research is burdened with an error in the selection of statistical sample units, which resulted from the respondents’ involvement and their truthfulness. The research was burdened with an estimation error of 0.07. The research was divided into two parts related to freezing the economy and social life and their defrosting. The aim of the article is to assess the occupational risk management activities that determine the prevention of OSH in an extreme situation, which was the immediate freezing of the economy and social activity in connection with the epidemic and then their gradual unfreezing. The conducted research allowed confirming the accepted hypothesis that the effectiveness of actions protecting the health of employees, and thus the production capacity of enterprises in a crisis situation, is related to the size of the plant, and this may be indirectly related to the system of organization of occupational health and safety services in the country.

Highlights

  • The epidemic started on 17 November 2019 in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 11 March 2020

  • The aim of the article is to assess the activities related to occupational risk management, which determines the activities related to the prevention of ersian extreme situation, which was the immediate freezing of the economy

  • In the case of risk assessment, about 30% of production plants carried out its update, and this state of affairs persisted until stages 5 and 6, in which an increase in such activities was observed to 48% in stage V and 60% in stage VI

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Introduction

The epidemic started on 17 November 2019 in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 11 March 2020. The World Health Organization decided not to recognize the epidemic as a public health emergency of international scope. On 24 January 2020, the first case of infection in Europe was confirmed. The infection was diagnosed in two people: one in Paris and the other in Bordeaux. In the second half of February, larger outbreaks started to appear outside China. On 4 March 2020, the first case of coronavirus was reported in Poland. The coronavirus epidemic changed the way many companies work every day. A significant part of companies started to work remotely, but not in all companies, e.g. production or health care, this mode of work is possible. Robotisation and automation, there is no effectively functioning factory or enterprise without people

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