CHOSEN PROBLEMS OF COOPERATION OF ELEMENTS OF THE GENERAL SAFETY SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND

Summary: The contemporary environment of general safety is characterized by the dynamic development of threats to man and his precious values (life, health, property, natural environment), resulting mainly from the progress of civilization and climate change, which in its effect occur in natural environment. These facts make general safety a complicated process involving authorities and public and social entities that provide various rescue and assistance services when these threats materialize. A large variety of threats, their types, as well as the scale of frequency of occurrence and impact, mean that obtaining an acceptable level of security requires multifaceted and multidimensional cooperation of all bodies and institutions (public, social, economic) responsible for its provision and maintenance. The study presents the issue of implementing joint ventures of selected elements of the general safety system functioning in the Republic of Poland. Due to the circumstances presented above, an analysis was also made of the possibilities of cooperation between elements of the general safety system with each other and with the surroundings. It was also defined what general safety is, assuming that it is related to the civilizational surroundings and natural environment in which citizens and their communities do not feel a threat to their existence or basic life interests, due to the state providing formal, institutional and practical guarantees of protection leading to socially acceptable risk level. An analysis of applied organization of cooperation solutions was also presented, while assessing both their effectiveness and efficiency.