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Safety Climate as one of the health and safety management performance evaluation indicators is discussed. The purpose of this study was to plot the safety climate of the under study Petrochemical industry and evaluation of its strengths and weaknesses.

Loughborough University Safety Climate Assessment Toolkit (LSCAT) was used in this study which assesses the safety climate governs on the workplace in 17 dimensions. Nine of them deal with attitude of workers directly and three of them deal with Organizational activity and fine of them via interview, deal with issues such as management style, Cooperation and etc. 1 to 10 scale is used for scoring each dimension.

Average score of the industry's safety climate was obtained 5.9. Of 17 studied dimensions, 9 dimensions were weak (score less than 6). Lowest score were related to Event & Accident and Change management dimensions. Highest score were related to Individual priorities and need for safety (8.65). Generally relationship between individual variables (ages, work experience, education) and safety climate were not significant (P>0.05).

Generally one can conclude that individual variables such as age, education and experience have not significant effect on safety climate. It seems that top management forms the organizational climate and consequently safety climate. It reaffirms the basic principle of senior management commitment to safety and its role in preventing accidents. Thus safety climate can be used as a good method for assessing Occupational Health and Safety Management Performance.

During the past 30 years, the Campylobacter has been the most common cause ofgastroenteritis in developed countries. Dogs as asymptomatic carriers play an importantrole in transfering of bacteria to human. Therefore, rapid and accurate diagnosis of carrieranimalsis important. During the autumn months of 2011 in Shahr-e-Kord city a total of60 stool samples from healthy domestic dogs, in order to detection of Campylobacterwere collected. After extraction of DNA from the stool samples, positive samples whichcontain nucleotide sequence related to Campylobacter spp. were identified usinguniversal pair primers. Then identification of common species Campylobacter in dog(C.jejuni) which is highly pathogenic for humans was performed using PCRtechniqe.Out of 60 samples, 30% (18 Case) were positive due to Genus Campylobacter.Hereof, Campylobacter jejuni allocated 8.33% (5 out of 18) of this Pollution. SPSSanalysis was revealed that prevalence of Campylobacter is Significantly high in youngdogs. This study showed that PCR technique can be used as an useful test for rapiddiagnosis of Campylobacter spp. in stool samples of dog carriers or patients without theculture and expensive variety of Anibodies.