Ocena zależności pomiędzy składką na ubezpieczenie wypadkowe a profilaktyką BHP w przedsiębiorstwach przemysłu spożywczego

The paper makes an attempt to evaluate the dependence between the level of the coverage of the accident insur­ance and the level of the costs of the work safety regulation prevention that does not include the cost of the contribu­tion. It highlights the dependence of the costs/expenditure of the contribution of the accident insurance payed by the employers and the costs/expenditure of the employers in the range of the implementation of objectives of accident prevention at food industry companies in the Łódź region. In the course of the study the models of rectilinear costs regression on the prevention activity in regard to the level of the contribution of the accident insurance have been evaluated. The models indicated the existence of added/positive dependence between the variables.