The article discusses the issue related to the study of the level of knowledge among students of Safety Engineering in the field of selected types of threats, the possibility of their occurrence, and knowledge of the rules of conduct in the event of their occurrence at the Campus of the Silesian University of Technology. Survey techniques were used for the analysis.

The performance of job tasks is increasingly being viewed through the prism of time constraints. Stress, as a consequence of these constraints, can play a dual role: motivating or destructive. This paper addresses the role of time pressure during the implementation of psychotechnical tests. Based on the example of a pilot group, which consisted of students of the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering, and Industrial Automation of the Silesian University of Technology, the authors presented the results of the study of the impact of time regime on the assessment of visuomotor coordination, psychomotor reaction time, the ability to focus attention, perceptual speed and accuracy, attention divisibility, and set-shifting. With the use of a survey conducted among the subjects and multivariate analysis (the Analytic Hierarchy Process method), an assessment was made in terms of difficulty levels during the implementation of exercises, including four evaluation criteria: complexity, repetition and timing of emitted signals, and the required accuracy of response to the signals in question. In the process of verifying the consistency of the evaluations carried out, the consistency ratio (CR) was adopted.

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The article deals with problems connected to crisis management regarding mining com-panies. In accordance with adequate decrees, mining companies, including mining plants, belong to objects towards which crisis management rules should be applied. In mining plants, apart from underground threats, ground threats that lead to a crisis situ-ation might also emerge on the entrepreneur’s territory. By this reason, they should be guided by the principles for the preparation for their special protection through concep-tual, planning, organizational, logistic, technical, training and control activities taken to develop, agree and update specific protection plans, implement projects under the alert and notification system, and exchange information on threats. A summary of possible hazards to a particular site and a separate mining plant facility, assessment and risk control are essential to develop a safety concept and prevent risks. There is a need of continual analyses of potential threats and actions taken to eliminate them, and if they occur the rapid response of individual services and appropriate integrated rescue opera-tions.