**1. Introduction**

The implementation of the new legislation on health and safety on work place [1] aims to insure employee's health and safety. The reported‐about research investigates the current situation of the leadership culture, especially concerning the health promotion. Therefore, we first focus 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.

Workplace environment covers a crucial part of human life. Therefore, workplaces should be designed in a human‐oriented way, following the tradition since 1950s. Having healthy, satisfied and motivated employees, who enjoy health and safety at workplace, enables positive economic outcomes, increased competitiveness and profitability; it also affects other factors in the business positively. Healthy jobs and workplaces benefit workers/employees, customers and shareholders, citizens, society and the state [2, 3].

After EU‐OSHA [4], workplace health promotion (WHP) encompasses employers', employees' and society's actions improving the human health and well‐being at work. It integrated the following activities in the defined area:


These activities must be planned and implemented. The key factors therefore include leaders who can form, stimulate and change the work environment substantially. This special part can present the health‐promoting leadership culture (HPLC), which we measured in Slovenian organizations. One should know this culture as the basis to develop special trainings for improving leaders' leadership style.

The law on health and safety at work was implemented in Slovenia in 2011. On this basis, Slovenian organizations started their workplace health promotion (WPC) programs. The responsibility for WPC is on employers and leaders, i.e., managers on all hierarchical level. For successful implementation of WHP, leaders should lead their employees in a way, supporting their health. The reported‐about research covered the Slovenian leaders' leadership style concerning their employees' health after implementing the said new legislation. We conducted a survey on health‐promoting leadership culture in Slovenian organizations in 2013, which is the first research, conducted after the above‐mentioned new legislation passing.
