Economic and social aspects of restructuring Polish coal mining: Focusing on Poland and the EU

This independence is guaranteed by black and brown coal deposits. In such a political environment, the Polish hard-coal mining industry needs to create a new policy of restructuring within the industry and to aid further development. The present article is an answer to the search for methods of forecasting mining production taking into account both the social and economic aspects of Polish mines. Therefore, this paper presents two elements of rationalisation in terms of the production efficiency of mining companies - human resources capital and the volume of black coal sales. The applied forecasting methods may help/determine the future number of employees working underground in Polish mining companies, on the basis of the proposed forecasting methods of the sale of black coal. On the basis of the presented research, the Authors wish to draw attention to the search for restructuring solutions in Polish coal mining companies, in areas other than human capital.