Dr. Karolina Kołdys, MBA

Chemical safety expert, chemist, and certified DGSA advisor. As the founder of Safety Advisor for over 11 years, provides strategic consulting and training for leaders in the industrial, transport, and logistics sectors, as well as military units, operating nationwide.

Architecture of competencies

Expertise anchored in a unique synthesis of chemical engineering, natural sciences, and modern strategic management. This multidisciplinary approach enables precision risk control across the entire lifecycle: from the molecular composition of substances and critical transport/storage conditions to comprehensive environmental and operational organizational integrity. Professional foundation built upon academic excellence from Poland’s leading institutions:

• Engineering & technology: Warsaw University of Technology (Chemical & process engineering) and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Chemistry; Chemistry education),
• Emergency response & operational safety: The Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw (Chemical rescue – hazard identification and decontamination) and Rzeszów University of Technology (Occupational health and safety management),
• Management & strategy: WSB University in collaboration with EY (Master of Business Administration (MBA)),
• Sustainability & environment: Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Environmental management and waste management).

The combination of a PhD in Security Sciences and comprehensive DGSA (Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor) credentials ensures absolute proficiency across the full legislative spectrum: road (ADR), rail (RID), inland waterways (ADN), maritime (IMDG Code), and aviation (ICAO TI/IATA DGR). Established practice includes collaboration with over 350 enterprises and the authorship of 70 specialist publications that serve as a substantive benchmark for the industry. The status of Poland’s sole judicial expert specializing in multimodal transport and the storage of dangerous goods serves as the ultimate validation of competence in high-risk environments.

Dr. Karolina Kołdys integrates advanced chemical expertise with supply chain management, maximizing operational efficiency in the dangerous goods trade. Implementing proprietary procedures, she restores fluidity where standard systems fail under legal rigor and substance-specific challenges. Working alongside organizational teams, she embeds safety into their operational DNA, transforming formal compliance into a decisive market advantage and the prestige of a modern business.

Doctoral research seminar

Security studies
Department of Security and Crisis Managment

Doctoral dissertation

Ecological security in the context of the transport of dangerous goods by road.

Graduate studies (Master’s degree)
Chemistry

Specialization: Fundamental and applied chemistry
Major: inorganic
Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Master’s thesis

The influence of the initiator and moderator on the particle mass of polymerised methyl polymethacrylate (PMMA) in the form of plates.

Laboratory of optical fiber technology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Postgraduate studies in chemistry education
Chemistry didactics
Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Undergraduate studies (Bachelor’s degree)

Chemistry
Specialization: Fundamental and applied chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Bachelor’s thesis

The use of polymer optical fibers in modern optical sensors.

Laboratory of optical fiber technology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The Faculty of Applied Science
WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza

Postgraduate studies in environmental management and waste management
Faculty of Economics
Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Postgraduate studies in chemical and process engineering
Faculty of Chemistry & Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering
Warsaw University of Technology

Postgraduate diploma thesis

Analysis of the compatibility of organic peroxides with other dangerous goods in road and rail transport.

Postgraduate studies in chemical rescue
Hazard identification and decontamination
Faculty of Fire Protection and Safety Engineering
The Academy of Fire Service, Warsaw

Certified fire protection inspector course
The Acadamy of Fire Service, Warsaw

Postgraduate studies in occupational health and safety management

Faculty of Management
Rzeszów University of Technology

Postgraduate diploma thesis

Occupational safety in the storage of dangerous goods.

DGSA (ADR)
Dangerous goods safety advisor – road transport (ADR)

Certificate No.: 3715/2024
Certificate of competency issued by the Transportation Technical Supervision in Warsaw

DGSA (RID)
Dangerous goods safety advisor – rail transport (RID)

Certificate No.: 3715/2024
Certificate of competency issued by the Transportation Technical Supervision in Warsaw

DGSA (ADN)

Dangerous goods safety advisor – inland waterway transport (ADN)

Certificate No.: 4460/2026
Certificate of competency issued by the Transportation Technical Supervision in Warsaw

DGSA (IMDG Code)

Dangerous goods safety advisor – maritime transport (IMDG Code)
Certificate No.: i32UqnEzCF

Certificate of competency issued by the National Cargo Bureau Inc., New York

DGSA (ICAO TI/IATA DGR)

Dangerous goods safety advisor – air transport (ICAO TI/IATA DGR)
Approved instructor by the Civil Aviation Authority (ULC) in Warsaw for training in the transport of dangerous goods by air

Instructor identification No.: 3/INS/DG/ULC/2022

Civil Aviation Authority, Warsaw