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Human behaviour is strongly influenced by the culture they live in. Therefore, if safety is a priority in a company's culture and this norm is internalized by every member of this organization, elimination of all types of unsafe behaviour would be possible. This aspect of organizational culture is called safety culture. In order to evaluate the safety culture in an organization, one of the useful tools is application of a safety culture survey. Application of a safety culture survey among a company's workers and managers would supply the management with valuable data concerning the safety culture perception of the organization members. Thus, the results from analyses of this data including the demographical features of the organization members would help the managers and OHS professionals design more effective activities to prevent workplace accidents. This paper aims at explaining the importance of safety culture and its contribution to OHS efforts. An empirical study applied at a large state owned coal mine institution located in Kütahya province in Turkey using a safety culture survey tool will be presented as an example of how a safety culture survey is implemented and evaluated for a company with high level of risks. Results of the analyses revealed that the participants' safety culture levels have statistically significant difference for age, education level, work experience, duty at work groups, and the state of having been exposed to any near-miss accidents. However, no statistically significant difference was determined for their marital status, position at work, the state of having been exposed to any occupational accidents in any workplace and the state of having been exposed to any occupational accident in their current workplace.

Paper focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises in context of their perception of the business environment. Small and medium-sized enterprises need for their development and operation a favourable business environment and a level of support in business activities, both from the state and from their environment. The aim of the research is to identify and verify how small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic perceive the public's attitude toward their business activities, the level of administrative burden and business conditions created by the state. Based on the survey, it was found that despite the measures taken by state to improve conditions for business, respondents don't feel the improvement of business conditions or reduction of administrative burden.

This paper deals with the most important skills (communication, cooperation, problem-solving skills, ability to learn, independence, focus on performance, creativity, responsibility, ability to think and ability to assess) of managers in private nonprofit sector, specifically offering social services.The aim of this paper is a) to describe the competencies of managers in private non-profit sector and b) to compare them with the competencies of managers in the commercial sector. In other words, whether and how managers in commercial and non-profit sector differ from each other. As a methodology, a questionnaire of 60 questions in the form of Lickert five-point scale was used, where to each competency 6 issues are targeted. Questionnaires were distributed to supervisors and middle managers from nongovernmental organizations providing social services in the South Bohemian Region (N = 46). This file was compared with a sample of top executives from the commercial sector (N = 221).Results showed that managers in the commercial sector perform better in most competencies. Managers of non-profit sector have strong points in the use of communication and cooperation, thus teamwork. From the correlation of performance and autonomy with the ability to think, learn and assess on the contrary follows that managers in non-profit organizations are much more dependent on their autonomy than their colleagues in commercial organizations.