Problems of Health and Safety Management in the Bulgarian Public Administration

The article regards the occupational health and safety management in the Bulgarian public administration. Here the occupational accidents, including fatal accidents and heavy occupational diseases, are not registered with the same frequency as the ones in industrial production and construction sectors which could have hard working conditions and thus deteriorated parameters of the work environment. Alongside with the other aspects and issues of public administration management, the problem of the stress relief and decreasing is strongly neglected. The reasons for such an omission can be found in the public pressure for a decrease in the number of the civil servants, for closing down and dismantling of administrative structures, as well as in the situation of economic crisis and low public revenues. The paper analyses statistical data and studies connected with health and safety conditions of work in the Bulgarian public administration. Some of the most often problems in the occupational health and safety management practice in the public administration have been analysed. On the results of an author's questionnaire survey carried for the working conditions in the public administration, suitable measures for improvement have been proposed. Some good practices in regard to health and safety from the Bulgarian public administrations have also been presented.