Adjusting labour inspection to contemporary occupational safety and health system.

Numerous changes in economic, political, social, cultural and other fields marked the end of the 20th and the eginning of the 21st century. These changes have also given rise to: modified employment structure, new rganizational forms of economic activities, new risks, expansion of flexible working engagement patterns, increase n the underground economy, new types of discrimination and abuse related to work, which inevitably influenced the oles of all participants acting in the labour sphere: employers, employees, their associations, labour inspection nd others. Each of these participants, in order to continue their performance, needs to adjust their role to the newly merged circumstances, making necessary changes and finding more effective instruments for influencing other articipants in order to fulfill their role, or leave the role. abour inspection, as well as other administrative mechanisms, is often not flexible or sensitive enough to notice evelopments that decrease its efficiency in a timely manner, but is prone to inertia since it follows the traditional rinciples of its establishment. However, the changes which have affected the field of labour also have a strong nfluence over the system of labour inspection, although it might not always be aware of such influence. This is why, n this paper, we will point to some of the most significant social, economic and organizational changes that epresent a challenge to labour inspection today, since it has to understand its role and adjust its activities to newly merged circumstances. We would also suggest some possibilities of developing this system so that it could adapt to he modern concept of occupational safety and health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]