How SMEs respond to legal requirements to provide information, training, instruction and supervision to workers about work health and safety matters

Bluff, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2019.02.036

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“…In many countries, law requires to provide information, training, and instructions to workers. However, the law is obviously underestimated by SMEs (Bluff, 2019). The companies should keep an efficient system of occupational health and safety risks management (Kaassis & Badri, 2018).…”

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Perception of non-financial risk determinants in SMEs in Visegrad countries

Virglerová

Dvorský

Kozubíková

et al. 2020

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Research background: The identification of risks and their management is a key task of strategic management. The right and early identification of risk sources can help companies to survive not only during a crisis period. However, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) underestimate the necessity to analyze risks and implement the enterprise risk management (ERM). Purpose of the article: The primary aim of the contribution is to identify the most important non-financial risks and their causes in the V4 countries and to analyze the perception of these risks by SME owners. Methods: The results are based on the survey conducted in 2018. The valid questionnaire of 1781 owners of SMEs from four countries was evaluated and analyzed to fulfil the main objective. The statistical hypotheses were con-firmed through statistical methods such as Z-score and Chi-square test. The SPSS Statistics was used for data evaluation. Findings & Value added: The results can be interesting not only for research organizations investigating the development of SMEs, but also for state institutions or private agencies seeking to adapt national support for SMEs. It was discovered that the entrepreneur’s country is the most important factor for the perception of the sources of safety risk, legal risk, and other business risks. There are differences in managers’ perception in case of other risk sources (corruption and clientelism) between entrepreneurs from the Czech Republic and other countries of the Visegrad Group. The SMEs’ country of origin is an important factor for the evaluation of the source of non-financial risks (safety risk, legal risk and other business risks). Differences in the perception of safe-ty risk sources between entrepreneurs from the Czech Republic and Poland were confirmed. More than 25% of SMEs in the Visegrad Group perceive frequent changes of the legal regulation as a legal risk.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Perception of non-financial risk determinants in SMEs in Visegrad countries

Virglerová

Dvorský

Kozubíková

et al. 2020

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“…The earliest safety management approach for single-plants can be traced back to the end of the 20th century using the safety management system (SMS) to control major accidents [21,26]. As a result, the use of SMSs has been emphasized in several relevant articles [26,[45][46][47]. But, as Hasle and Limborg [48] indicated, the manager of an enterprise, especially in a private organization, often discounts the importance of safety management due to a bad safety culture and an economic survival pressure.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review on Safety Research Related to Chemical Industrial Parks

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The increasing demand for chemical products has driven the construction and development of chemical industrial areas, or so-called ‘chemical industrial parks’ (CIPs), but this has intrinsically raised the risk of major accidents. Therefore, it is significant and urgent to summarize the state of art and research needs in the field of CIP safety. In this paper, a keyword co-occurrence analysis of 116 scientific articles was conducted to support the classification of research topics in this field, then an overview of those research topics was presented to investigate the evolution of safety research with respect to CIPs. Specifically, the way that safety assessments are conducted, as well as how safety management and safety technology in such areas are classified and investigated, followed by detailed descriptions of representative methods and their contributions to CIP safety, are discussed. An integrated safety framework for CIPs is proposed to organize safety approaches and measures systematically. Based on the classification and analysis of studies on management, assessment, and technology related to CIP safety, the research trends and future directions and challenges are discussed and outlined. Those results are useful for improving theoretical method and industrial strategies, and can advance the safety and sustainability development of CIPs.

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“…Weaknesses in clarity and structure have also been identified in the United Kingdom H&S law [16]. Likewise, the Australian experience has been that small and medium enterprises have difficulties in developing specific workplace practices from the abstract and non-prescriptive legislation [17]. Results from Italy also show that smaller firms are less effective than larger ones at reducing accident rates [18].…”

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Alignment of the Safety Assessment Method with New Zealand Legislative Responsibilities

Pons

2019

Safety

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Need—National legislative health and safety (H&S) frameworks impose requirements but grant self-management to organisations. Consequently variability arises in management systems, and some organisations struggle to achieve successful implementation. The risk assessment process is key to the H&S management system, and could benefit from greater consistency and better external alignment with the legislative framework of the jurisdiction. Approach—The harm categories in the New Zealand (NZ) Act were adapted into a consequence scale. A non-linear scale was developed for the consequence axis to represent the disproportional nature of catastrophic harm outcomes compared to minor injuries. A hazard assessment process was devised based on systems engineering methods. Organisational decision-criteria were derived from the communications requirement in the Act, and these thresholds linked to expected treatments. Originality—A method is providing for aligning risk assessments with a national legislative framework, and integrating the technical aspects of risk assessment with the management processes. The approach also more explicitly includes recovery actions in contrast to existing methods where prevention dominates. Regarding the management aspects, it shows how thresholds may be defined relative to the legislation, to give clear expectations regarding treatment and internal communication, thereby assisting executives (‘officers’ in terms of the NZ Act) meet their duties.

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How SMEs respond to legal requirements to provide information, training, instruction and supervision to workers about work health and safety matters

Cited by 27 publications

References 35 publications

Perception of non-financial risk determinants in SMEs in Visegrad countries

Perception of non-financial risk determinants in SMEs in Visegrad countries

A Systematic Literature Review on Safety Research Related to Chemical Industrial Parks

Alignment of the Safety Assessment Method with New Zealand Legislative Responsibilities

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