Study on Company Executives’ Willingness-to-pay for Occupational Safety and Health in Polish Enterprises
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health (OSH) has been undertaken as an attempt to specify whether and how much, company executives value the health and safety of company workers. The study was performed as part of “Health at Work” research programme under 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7). The willingness to pay data has been collected among 147 representatives of managers from 25 mediumand big-sized enterprises in Poland with use of a questionnaire. Findings obtained show that 70-80% of the managers interviewed are willing to increase expenditures on different activities aimed at improving occupational safety and health performance in their companies. M. Pęciłło, Z. Pawłowska, M. Antoniak, A. Grabowski*
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