**Author details**

change belongs to the major challenges facing the future world of work, which WHP can help

There are many benefits for employees too: less stress and strain factors and improved well‐ being and attitude to work. A company is only as healthy and efficient as its employees, hence

This article focuses on the current research state concerning the role of health and safety at workplace and especially on the attitudes about health promotion and leaders' behavior. The literature review supports the conclusion that leaders must be consistent and proactive about incorporating ethics into their leadership agenda, to match principles of social responsibility, including WHP. To successfully implement WHP, leaders must lead their employees in a way, which supports their health. Furthermore, this article reports on the research of the Slovenian leaders' leadership style concerning their employees' health following the new legislation on

The abovementioned empirical research shows that leaders and employees have positive (social) relations with others. The study was performed two years after application of the new legislation for safety and health in Slovenia. We detected no statistically significant differences between two independent samples of workers: leaders (that they pay attention to HPLC) and

For HPLC of leaders, it matters that criticism is appraised, every opinion is shared fairly, one can identify with the values/VCEN of the organization, everybody has the necessary latitude, nobody must work against their personal values, and in conversations employees experience acceptance like they are. These elements can lead to developing new leaders' styles, which can actively promote employee's health. This style must be requisitely holistic and based on real

Our research enables development of special trainings for leaders, including more holism, humane orientation and health awareness by topics such as communication, organizational culture and climate, motivation, commitment… They could belong to work health promotion.

Further research will be oriented towards the improvement of the measuring instrument for HPLC, convenient for the structural equations modelling in order to make a selection of constructs and indicators that best describe HPLC and to study the relationships between

skills and knowledge of leaders and can improve the organizational climate.

to master by helping workers to remain employed throughout their working life.

WHP causes that there are only winners and no losers.

employees (that their leaders pay attention to HPLC).

**10. Conclusion**

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health and safety at work [1].

**10.1. Contributions to theory**

**10.2. Contributions to practice**

**10.3. Limitations and further research**

Simona Šarotar Žižek\* , Matjaž Mulej and Vesna Čančer

\*Address all correspondence to: simona.sarotar‐zizek@um.si

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
