摘要：AbstractIt is well-known that there is a lot of information about the safety and health at work, provided by several EU organizations. The laws, strategies and solutions regarding the best practices developed in other parts of the world can also provide additional valuable information and references for creating safe, healthy and productive work places. Thus, a first measure to be taken, which represents the basis of the European approach, consists in organizing national campaigns in all EU Member States. The purpose of these campaigns is to reduce the number of work related accidents and occupational disease cases through a better risk assessment. Such a complete and regular risk assessment can be done by organizations of any size, in any area, simply and efficiently. From our perspective, a good professional security management should be seen as an investment, not as an expense - it can bring profit in terms of productivity; moreover, health at the workplace should be understood in the same way. Often, organizations do not asses workplace risks properly. In order to illustrate the above mentioned statements related to the assessment of the risks in the public and private sectors and to reveal its effect on employees, we applied a questionnaire (made up of 17 questions) to a sample of 75 people. The questionnaire was applied in a public institution, i.e. Hârşova Town Hall (50 persons) and in a private one, operating in the field of car dealers (25 people: Secretariat, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales, Logistics, Marketing offices), aiming at identifying the employee's understanding of the notions of “security and health at the workplace”, “occupational hazard”, “work environment”, in relation to the employer's obligations and to psychosocial influences.
