The last workshops from the cycle of four events oriented onto the subject matter of ergonomics, safety and health protection in designing and operating mechanical systems, took place at the KOMAG Centre in Gliwice, Poland from 6th till 8th July 2004. They were entitled: "Forming competence in the domain of work safety and health protection."

Due to a participation of the guests from foreign institutions the workshops, according to their objectives, had a character of a European forum of experience exchange. The participants got acquainted with the state-of-the-art methods of forming competence, enabling a creation of safe and human friendly work environment.

Forty five representations of collieries, the State Mining Authority, scientific workers from the Technical University of Silesia and the KOMAG Centre participated in the workshops.