Department of Safety Engineering

Head of the Department

Dr hab. eng. Małgorzata WYGANOWSKA, prof. PŚ

phone number 32 237 27 10,
room 674

Proffessional resume:

Master's degree in mining engineering and geology with a specialization: Organization and Economics of Mining was obtained in June 1998 from the Faculty of Mining and Geology, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. Thesis topic: "Multicriteria analysis of the state and structure of employment in Gliwice Coal Company SA".
She received her doctoral degree in mining in May 2003 from the Faculty of Mining and Geology, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. Dissertation topic: "Employment rationalization in mining companies".
In March 2019, by the decision of the Council of the Faculty of Mining and Geology, Silesian University of Technology, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in the field of Mining and Engineering Geology for her research on selected aspects of human resources in the area of improving organizational and economic efficiency of coal mines.
Completed post-graduate studies in the area of occupational health and safety.
Since 1998 associated with the Department of Management and Safety Engineering, now Safety Engineering, at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation of Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

Organizational activity

From 1.09.2021, she is serving as the Head of the Department of Safety Engineering.

From 1.09.2020, she has served as the Associate Dean for Education.

From 1.09.2017 to 31.08.2021, she served as Deputy Head of the Department of Safety Engineering.

Since 2012, manager of postgraduate studies "Occupational Health and Safety in the Enterprise" at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

Since 1999, coordinator of the department for teaching loads.

Since 2005, she has served on the organizing committees and co-organized cyclic conferences organized at the home Department of Safety Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

Since 2016 member of the University Disciplinary Committee for PhD students.

Member of the Council of the Discipline of Environmental, Mining and Energy Engineering.

Honored in 2017 with the badge "for services to mining".

Director of Mining First Class.

Scientific and research activities
She conducts scientific research in the field of effective personnel management in mining enterprises and in the area of occupational health and safety management. Author of more than 110 scientific publications (including 4 monographs and 16 chapters in monographs) in high-scoring national and international journals in the field of economics, organization of mining and occupational health and safety and 37 papers and publications at national and international conferences, among others in the Republic of South Africa, Canada, Spain, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria. Participation in national and international projects. Implementation of statutory research and cooperation with industry. Realized 4 original design, construction and technological achievements.
Laureate of 5 awards of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific activity.

Teaching activity
She has significant teaching achievements: she is the author of a textbook and several curricula for new subjects (including lectures, seminars, exercises and projects), also in English (Human Resource Management), in the emerging new full-time and part-time majors and specialties, engineering and master's studies at her home faculty.
During engineering, master's and doctoral studies, she lectures on such subjects as: human resources management, economics and planning in a mining company.
In addition, she provides scientific supervision of students: since obtaining the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 2003, she has managed and promoted the completion of more than 150 master's and engineering theses.
For her teaching work she was honored in July 2018 by the Minister of National Education with the Medal of the National Education Commission.