Safety diagnosis criteria—development and testing

Tinmannsvik, Ranveig Kviseth; Hovden, Jan Fredrik

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(02)00012-7

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“…al. (2018), identified that internal control concept aims to manage safety and health through safety assessment and control by management of production line (Tinmannsvik and Hovden, 2003). A systematic internal control strategy can help manufacturers put essential risk management control in place.…”

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The Effects of Cost Management Quality on the Effectiveness of Internal Control and Reliable Decision-Making: Evidence from Thai Industrial Firms

Ditkaew¹

2018

Proceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (RAIS 2018)

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This study investigated the consequences of cost management quality on the effectiveness of internal control and reliable decision-making in Thai industrial firms. With this information, the firms were then tested against performance. A sample of 354 new manufacturing industries in year 2017 of Thailand was chosen and data was collected through mailed questionnaires. Only 340 (96.05%) respondents contributed to the database of this report. The result of ordinary least squares regression revealed that the cost management quality was positively related to the internal control effectiveness and decision-making reliability. In addition, internal control effectiveness and decision-making reliability also had positive effects on firm performance. This implied that without accounting information system quality, a firm had a greater chance of failure. Contributions and suggestions for future research are presented. 60 Literature Review and Conceptual ModelAs depicted in figure 1, a conceptual model was constructed to identify how CMQ affects internal control effectiveness and decision-making reliability. Then, internal control effectiveness and decision-making reliability were tested on how they affected firm performance. To link the variables of the model logically, the conceptual model was delineated by a resource-based view of the firm.Resource-Based View of the firms (RBV) The concept of resource-based view of the firms (RBV) illustrated how to establish sustainable competitive advantages of organizations from resources which are rare, valuable, hard or impossible to imitate or duplicate, and difficult to substitute (Barney 1991). This concept, nowadays, is extremely popular because organizations having resources, capability, unity, and specialty over rivals will become successful. According to Barney (1991), and Kim and Oh (2004), resources of an organization comprise competency, assets, capability, information, and knowledge; therefore, differences in terms of organizations' resources enable different opportunities to grow and create competitive advantages. In this research, cost management is useful information for executives of industrial sector in the highly competitive era. Information is a vital resource in the organization as it is capable of creating competitive advantages. Competitive advantages of Porter (2008) are results of four factors of resources mentioned above. This research, thus, indicates that having information about effective cost management, organizations in industrial sector possess (1) a resource that is valuable and helpful in decreasing weaknesses in product and service price setting, and operating cost.(2) Information about effective cost management is rare because each organizational culture has different context which is strength of the firm. (3) Imitation in firms is difficult as a result of firm differences. This means that organizations can create information about effective cost management while competitors cannot duplicate, reproduce, and (4) substitute it because this information ...

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The Effects of Cost Management Quality on the Effectiveness of Internal Control and Reliable Decision-Making: Evidence from Thai Industrial Firms

Ditkaew¹

2018

Proceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (RAIS 2018)

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“…Accidents and injuries are expected to become predictable when employees possess the required safety knowledge and undergo frequent safety training. Previous studies suggest that organizations who found it necessary to improve employee safety knowledge through safety training record lower accidents rate [21][22][23]. In this regard, safety knowledge can be viewed as accident prevention programs which may reduce accident and injury frequency at work.…”

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The State of Occupational Health and Safety Management Frameworks (OHSMF) and Occupational Injuries and Accidents in the Ghanaian Oil and Gas Industry: Assessing the Mediating Role of Safety Knowledge

Liu

Nkrumah

Akoto

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BioMed Research International

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Background. The study examines the mediation effect of safety knowledge in causal the relationship between Occupational Health and Safety Management Frameworks (OHSMF) and occupational injuries and workplace accidents in the Ghanaian Oil and Gas Industry. The study explores different dimensions of occupational health and safety management systems, workplace accidents, and occupational injuries. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design. A total of 699 respondents through a convenience and purposive sampling technique were selected in three government-owned oil and gas organizations for the study. Correlation, multiple regression analysis, and bootstrapping methods were used for data analysis. The findings of both the regression and correlation analysis indicated that there is a moderately strong negative and significant relationship between Occupational Health and Safety Management Frameworks (OHSMF) and workplace accidents and occupational injuries. Safety knowledge significantly mediates the causal relationship between OHSMF and workplace accidents and injuries. Safety training was found to be a significant predictor of safety knowledge, work-related injuries, and workplace accidents. The negative relationship between OHSMF and workplace accidents and injuries shows that the existing OHSMF are either ineffective or lack the acceptable safety standards to control hazard exposures in the industry. Management must invest in frequent safety training and orientations to improve safety knowledge among workers. The study further recommends government and industry players to extend serious attention towards the promotion and improvement of occupational health and safety management systems in Ghana.

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“…The evaluation of safety management factors is a preferred approach for the assessment of safety performance, and provides information regarding failures of ongoing safety programs prior to the occurrence of an accident26 ) . Application of an active monitoring system can measure the success of a certified management system before accidents occur and can reinforce the achievement of the organization in a positive way27 ) .…”

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Diagnosis of poor safety culture as a major shortcoming in OHSAS 18001-certified companies

Ghahramani

2017

INDUSTRIAL HEALTH

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The evaluation of safety performance in occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS) 18001-certified companies provides useful information about the quality of the management system. A certified organization should employ an adequate level of safety management and a positive safety culture to achieve a satisfactory safety performance. The present study conducted in six manufacturing companies: three OHSAS 18001-certified, and three non-certified to assess occupational health and safety (OHS) as well as OHSAS 18001 practices. The certified companies had a better OHS practices compared with the non-certified companies. The certified companies slightly differed in OHS and OHSAS 18001 practices and one of the certified companies had the highest activity rates for both practices. The results indicated that the implemented management systems have not developed and been maintained appropriately in the certified companies. The in-depth analysis of the collected evidence revealed shortcomings in safety culture improvement in the certified companies. This study highlights the importance of safety culture to continuously improve the quality of OHSAS 18001 and to properly perform OHS/OHSAS 18001 practices in the certified companies.

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Safety diagnosis criteria—development and testing

Cited by 30 publications

References 16 publications

The Effects of Cost Management Quality on the Effectiveness of Internal Control and Reliable Decision-Making: Evidence from Thai Industrial Firms

The Effects of Cost Management Quality on the Effectiveness of Internal Control and Reliable Decision-Making: Evidence from Thai Industrial Firms

The State of Occupational Health and Safety Management Frameworks (OHSMF) and Occupational Injuries and Accidents in the Ghanaian Oil and Gas Industry: Assessing the Mediating Role of Safety Knowledge

Diagnosis of poor safety culture as a major shortcoming in OHSAS 18001-certified companies

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