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The article presents exogenous and endogenous instances of CSR in the mining industry in
the Polish mines on the basis of results of 1170 surveys (Research sponsored by the Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Project: 4659/B/T02/2010/3,”The role of
managers in the process of management of safety culture in coal mines in Poland”) and
companies reports. Among the endogenous factors of CSR, a special emphasis has been put
on safety culture, because the majority of accidents in the mines, the human factor is to
blame. The exogenous factors include activities, which mines undertake to improve the
condition of the natural environment. Thus, two conclusions can be drawn: 1) There are
alarming attitudes towards the work safety, and a correlation between greater work safety and
social and economic benefits for the workers and organisations is not discerned 2)The
increase in the importance of CSR can be observed mainly for PR purposes, though, internal
CSR is not on the satisfactory level. The attitudes of the managerial staff towards safety differ
from the attitudes of workers. The managers are pressed to achieve higher goals, which
increases the pace of work and various hazards as well as stress. The research also revealed
that in Polish mines we have a strong corporate culture, which impedes the introduction of
changes in this area.
Keywords: CSR,
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