Digital Platform for the Optimization of Occupational Health and Safety Systems Specific to the Industrial Area – Part I

Occupational health and safety (OHS) systems are designed to identify and minimize risks at the workplace. A thriving business community should seek to create jobs, wealth, good leadership, safe, and healthy working conditions that are essential for production of goods and provisions of services. Therefore, managers have a legal and moral duty to safeguard the health and safety of those who work for them, and the exercise of these duties needs to be seen as central to the role of leadership. There is a growing interest among researchers and organizational practitioners about occupational safety in recent years. The chapter provides an exhaustive discourse on the relevance of occupational health and safety systems in modern day workplaces as well as the nexus between management leadership and occupational health and safety. It highlights the guiding principles to leadership and key issues in efficient administration of OHS. The chapter concludes by recommending the role leaders should play to improve safety and health in the workplace.

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Knowledge Management integration in Occupational Health and Safety systems in the construction industry

International Journal of Product Development ◽

10.1504/ijpd.2011.042298 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 14 (1/2/3/4) ◽

pp. 165 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Mario Fargnoli ◽

Margherita De Minicis ◽

Giulio Di Gravio

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Occupational Health ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Occupational Health And Safety ◽

Safety Systems

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Exploring Goal Conflicts and How They Are Managed in a Biomedical Laboratory Using Rasmussen’s Model of Boundaries

Applied Biosafety ◽

10.1177/1535676020919624 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 153567602091962

Author(s):

Viji Vijayan ◽

Anthony John Smoker

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Occupational Health ◽

Systematic Approach ◽

Safety Management ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Occupational Health And Safety ◽

Scientific Output ◽

Safety Systems ◽

Biomedical Laboratory ◽

Goal Conflicts

Introduction: Occupational health and safety management systems are widely used as a systematic approach to managing occupational health and safety. However, sometimes they are restrictive and underspecified to deal with dynamic workplace demands. Rasmussen used a model of boundaries to conceptualize this dynamic model of safety, where the space of possibilities lay within 3 boundaries and workers used various means to stay within the boundaries to remain both productive and safe at work. Methods: This study applied the Rasmussen model of boundaries to understand the factors that formed the boundaries, the gradients, and countergradients in a biomedical laboratory. Results: The most central goal was to be the first to publish, and this formed the boundary to scientific output failure; the boundary to unacceptable workload and boundary to functionally acceptable performance were the other 2 boundaries in line with the Rasmussen model. The workers had developed methods (mental risk assessment, teamwork, and experience and familiarity) of working, which ensured they remained productive and safe. This can be described as resilient performance, where resilience is not something that a system has but something it does to adjust their performance when faced with expected or unexpected changes. Discussion and Conclusion: A customized portfolio of rule-based non negotiable instructions and a risk assessment–based approach would be best suited for a biomedical laboratory. The workers have learned resilient performance on their own and unknowingly are already practicing this. It is now time to formally incorporate such practices into the safety systems of biomedical laboratories.

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Analysis of occupational health and safety system performance measurement in mining and energy complex

Tehnika ◽

10.5937/tehnika2005573l ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 75 (6) ◽

pp. 573-579

Author(s):

Nikola Lilić ◽

Aki Jääskeläinen ◽

Aleksandar Cvjetić ◽

Sari Tappura

Keyword(s):

Occupational Health ◽

Performance Measurement ◽

System Performance ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Occupational Health And Safety ◽

Measurement Model ◽

Safety System ◽

Maturity Score ◽

Measurement And Evaluation ◽

Safety Systems

In modern mining complexes, the amount of available information on the performance of occupational health and safety systems is constantly increasing. Measurement and evaluation of system performance, as well as the need to develop a better measurement model, arises primarily due to necessity of the improvement of occupational health and safety. The scope of the model aiming to maturity analysis of safety performance measurement, which was applied in the research whose results are presented in this paper, included the performance measurement practice, the commitment and culture of performance measurement and the use of measurement results. In addition to the three basic topics mentioned, an assessment related to the state of the occupational health and safety system was added. As a result of the application of the proposed model, an overall maturity score was obtained. This paper presents the results of the maturity analysis of occupational health and safety system performance measurement in the company TE-KO "Kostolac", which identifies areas that will be given special attention in the future in terms of improving the management of occupational health and safety.

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ICT-Enabled Mobile Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Occupational Health and Safety Systems

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17207498 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (20) ◽

pp. 7498

Author(s):

Swantje Robelski ◽

Sabine Sommer

Keyword(s):

Occupational Health ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

New Technologies ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Occupational Health And Safety ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Mobile Work ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Safety Systems

The development and dissemination of new technologies has brought forward a rise in flexible work arrangements, such as mobile work. In the literature, mobile work has mostly been discussed from a microergonomic perspective, considering detachment, stress, strain, and life-domain balance. However, the macroergonomic or institutional perspectives have often been neglected, although for occupational health and safety (OHS) management, as well as occupational health and safety systems, many questions remain unanswered. Therefore, in the present paper, information and communication technologies (ICT)-enabled mobile work is described taking into account institutional and regulative, as well as company-related, requirements. As the literature-based analysis was able to show, existing regulations cover many aspects of mobile work arrangements but also offer starting points for a more concrete protection of mobile workers. Furthermore, there are challenges regarding the enforcement of regulation. In this regard, new technologies might offer the chance to improve the interactions between institutional and company-related occupational health and safety systems. Additionally, 278 co-funded research projects in Germany were categorized, yielding 18 projects on new ways of work, of which another eleven projects addressed different aspects of mobile work. The project analysis revealed that current research focuses on tools and strategies for designing communication and cooperation. In conclusion, the examination of research trends can be used to generate new knowledge for better OHS management and effective OHS systems.

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Work Leadership, Occupational Health, and Safety

10.4018/978-1-6684-2405-6.ch079 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1608-1625

Author(s):

Gabriel Akinbode

Keyword(s):

Occupational Health ◽

Occupational Safety ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Occupational Health And Safety ◽

Business Community ◽

Safety And Health ◽

Healthy Working ◽

Management Leadership ◽

Key Issues ◽

Safety Systems

Occupational health and safety (OHS) systems are designed to identify and minimize risks at the workplace. A thriving business community should seek to create jobs, wealth, good leadership, safe, and healthy working conditions that are essential for production of goods and provisions of services. Therefore, managers have a legal and moral duty to safeguard the health and safety of those who work for them, and the exercise of these duties needs to be seen as central to the role of leadership. There is a growing interest among researchers and organizational practitioners about occupational safety in recent years. The chapter provides an exhaustive discourse on the relevance of occupational health and safety systems in modern day workplaces as well as the nexus between management leadership and occupational health and safety. It highlights the guiding principles to leadership and key issues in efficient administration of OHS. The chapter concludes by recommending the role leaders should play to improve safety and health in the workplace.

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