Measuring operational performance of OSH management system – A demonstration of AHP-based selection of leading key performance indicators

Podgórski, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2014.11.018

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“…Prevention by design Not specified [83][84][85] Commitment of management Not specified [24,59,79] Worker commitment and participation -Percent response to questionnaires [24,59,78,86] OHS-related behaviour -Number of observations of unsafe or deviant actions [78,87] Compliance with OHS guidelines or regulations -Number of penalties for non-compliance [8,23,40,54,88] OHS inspection -Number of inspections carried out [25,40,79,86] Equipment and preventive maintenance Not specified [25,79] Work setting and situations potentially at risk Not specified [7,8,20,24,79] Evaluation of proactive indicators Not specified [74,79,86] Technology -Degree of integration of technology into the processes [33,89] Budget -The amount allotted to OHS [33,40,59] Workload -Evaluation of workload [90] …”

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Development of a Preliminary Model for Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Risk Management Maturity in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Kaassis

Badri

2018

Safety

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Management of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks is a crucial component of any business. Numerous investigations have shown that work-related injuries and deaths occur disproportionately in small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and that this is clearly due to deficient management of OHS risks. The main goal of this work is to develop a base of indicators suitable for evaluating OHS risk management maturity in industrial SMEs. A preliminary model is then proposed for this evaluation, based on a small number of relevant indicators selected from a careful bibliographic review. The work begins with a critical review of the literature and analysis of known concepts, methods, tools and models of measurement of risk analysis maturity in order to extract relevant indicators. The most suitable indicators are then grouped to form the basis of a preliminary model for evaluating OHS risk management maturity in the SME setting. Our findings will help managers of SMEs make sound decisions in their quest to improve the OHS performance of their businesses.

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Development of a Preliminary Model for Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Risk Management Maturity in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Kaassis

Badri

2018

Safety

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“…To date, there are many AHP applications to problems of assessment in various industries and several studies are dedicated on AHP application to occupational safety problems (Caputo et al, 2013;Podgórski, 2015;Zheng et al, 2012). AHP is used to determine the relative importance of a strategy set, which may be made up by different elements as actions, alternatives, criteria, securities.…”

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Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to choose a human factors technique: Choosing the suitable Human Reliability Analysis technique for the automotive industry

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a b s t r a c tThe Automotive industry has been developed into a complex and highly automated sector. This level of automation and complexity has led to the establishment of a work environment, where human machine interface and human reliability are now critical factors of performance especially for safety critical tasks. Many different methodologies for performing risk assessment considering human factors are already available in the literature, but they were often developed for other domains (aviation, nuclear and process industry). Their purpose is to support the root cause evaluation and estimate the probability of faulty human actions. The present paper introduces a method to support the evaluation and the choice of a suitable Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) technique for the automotive sector considering the ones proposed from other industrial domains. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a way of assisting safety managers and risk assessors in the HRA technique selection process. This allows the selected HRA techniques to be evaluated based on relevant criteria for an application in an automotive manufacturing environment. An example of selected HRA techniques in this paper will be demonstrated in a case study. The example can also suggest implications to improve existing industry guidelines, international standards and regulations, which are frequently calling for a wide range of ergonomic factors to be considered in the risk assessment process. Further the case study should show potential benefits to organizations coming from the selection and application of the right HRA technique.

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“…There are many methods suggested for evaluating the SMSs in the enterprise [3][4][5]. The conceptual model for OHS management system differentiates between its strategy and implementation [1].…”

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“…Leading indicators are not so much the opposite of lagging indicators, but are instead a facet of safety likely to be present prior to an undesirable event [13; 14]. Podgorski [3] provides key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring OHS management systems operational performance. The final set of KPIs contains 20 sub-sets (like OHS policy, evaluation and improvement of OHS training programmes, OHS goals and improvement plans, risk assessment process, management of change, management system audit, management review; actions for improvement: preventive and corrective actions, continual improvement etc.…”

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“…In small and medium-sized enterprises, it is difficult to implement comprehensive safety management systems (SMSs) [2]. There is no knowledge and not enough workforce to deepen into the safety and health management details.There are many methods suggested for evaluating the SMSs in the enterprise [3][4][5]. The conceptual model for OHS management system differentiates between its strategy and implementation [1].…”

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Working environment specialist's role in improvement of safety level in Estonian enterprises

Hrenov¹,

Reinhold²,

Tint³

2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. The active persons in safety and health activities in enterprises in Estonia are: the working environment specialists (WES), hired by the employer, and working environment representatives, selected by the workers. The number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Estonia is over 5000. Not all these enterprises can allow themselves the job with the designation of WES (or safety engineer). Therefore, these SMEs need very good descriptions of safety and health activities at the workplace and the information for the possibilities for improvement the safety level at these enterprises. The inspectors from the National Labour Inspectorate of Estonia never reach the SMEs unless an accident happens. In SMEs, the employer has to deal with the safety questions himself or these obligations are delegated to some of the top management's representative as an extra work. The main possibilities to influence on the safety level in the firm have the working environment specialists, as they are more educated and supported by the law in the work safety and health (OHS) area. The current paper is looking for the possibilities to raise the interest to the improvement of the safety level at enterprises through the strengthening of the knowledge of WES in OHS, particularly the knowledge on the main standard in OHS: OHSAS 18001. The safety level in 15 Estonian enterprises (metal, wood, construction, agriculture) was investigated through the MISHA method (based on OHSAS 18001). The latter version of the MISHA method was modified by the authors of the current paper (some of the important hazardous factors, like vibration etc. were added into the MISHA method). This modified MISHA questionnaire is an educational tool for the WES: this is the mode of learning through interviews. The influence of the implementation of OHSAS 18001 on real, formal and combined safety elements is determined. The connections were proved with statistics: factor analyses were carried out with Barlett's test, ANOVA and T-square test with Wilks' Lambda row.Keywords: working environment specialist, safety engineer, real, formal and combined safety elements, improvement of safety level at enterprises. IntroductionHealth and safety management system can be characterized as a set of institutionalised interrelated and interacting strategic elements designed to establish and achieve occupational health and safety (OHS) goals and objectives [1]. In small and medium-sized enterprises, it is difficult to implement comprehensive safety management systems (SMSs) [2]. There is no knowledge and not enough workforce to deepen into the safety and health management details.There are many methods suggested for evaluating the SMSs in the enterprise [3][4][5]. The conceptual model for OHS management system differentiates between its strategy and implementation [1]. The model suggests that the top management is responsible for strategically developing, articulating, recording, and communicating the strategic organizational OHS system. Based on a review of the strategi...

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Measuring operational performance of OSH management system – A demonstration of AHP-based selection of leading key performance indicators

Cited by 226 publications

References 74 publications

Development of a Preliminary Model for Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Risk Management Maturity in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Development of a Preliminary Model for Evaluating Occupational Health and Safety Risk Management Maturity in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to choose a human factors technique: Choosing the suitable Human Reliability Analysis technique for the automotive industry

Working environment specialist's role in improvement of safety level in Estonian enterprises

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