A study on the impact of management system certification on safety management

Vinodkumar, M.N.; Bhasi, M.

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2010.11.009

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“…Safety Management Systems can be seen as "a socio-technical system for knowledge transfer […], through documented experiences, best practices, and expert references" [3, p. 2]. Safety Management Systems are integrated mechanisms in the organizations, and the purpose is to control the hazards that can affect workers' health and safety [4,5], to maintain risk within an acceptable range in the operations of any organization [6,7], and to help the organization meet the regulatory requirements (4,7,8,9]. This is not only a matter of coordinating between tasks, but also the accumulation and diffusion of organizational experience, and to turn tacit knowledge into explicit and shared knowledge [10].…”

Section: Safety Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the reasons is that in the development and implementation phases the emphasis has been mainly on the technical requirements, ignoring the social and cultural facets of knowledge management [5,15]. It is also because designers tend to focus primarily on the technology and its features, and forget to look at the use of the system from the human point of view [16].…”

Section: Safety Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

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Laumann

2015

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Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Wold

Laumann

2015

Safety Science

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“…Some papers (Fernández-Muñiz et al, 2012a;Santos et al, 2013) reported and stressed out the benefits collected from OHSMS implementation, the perceptions and attitudes from certified OHSMS companies regarding safety behaviour and its effectiveness (Robson et al, 2007;Chen and Li, 2012). Other papers focused on the assessment of the OHSMS (Abad et al, 2013;Inan et al, 2017), on the performance of the OHSMS (Azadeh et al, 2012.;Desa et al, 2013b;Lo et al, 2014), on the comparison between the OHSAS 18001 and national standards (Abidin and Irniza, 2015), between certified and non-certified companies concerning safety climate (Ghahramani, 2016) and point out and promote linkages between the OHSMS implementation with other constructs or aspects such as sustainability (Marhani et al, 2013;Qi et al, 2013), voluntary safety management (Paas et al, 2015), safety behaviour (Fernández-Muñiz et al, 2012b), participatory ergonomics (Yazdani et al, 2015), psychosocial risks (Jespersen et al, 2016), safety management (Vinodkumar and Bhasi, 2011), organizational learning (Granerud and Rocha, 2011;Silva et al, 2017) and decision making aiming at effectiveness improvement (Mohammadfam et al, 2016). Some recent published papers address the OHSMS in an International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Safety, 1:1 (2017) 11-28 13 integrated context and other dissect some pertinent and relevant IT issues aiming at a successful management of the system of systems.…”

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Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Domingues

Sampaio

Arezes

2017

IJOOES

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The systematic assurance of the occupational health, safety and wellbeing of the employees may be accomplished through the implementation (and certification) of standardized occupational health and safety management systems in accordance with the requirements listed in the BS OHSAS 18001 standard. In Portugal the certification of occupational health and safety management systems is usually carried out against the requirements of the BS OHSAS 18001 and the NP 4397 standard which is a national adaptation of the former. The purpose of this paper is to "snapshot" the diffusion of the certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal dissecting the following features: regional geographic location, integration phenomenon, evolution throughout the years, more involved activity sectors, more often found integrated management systems typologies and the most relevant and active certification bodies. To address this research goal a thorough, in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the data available in a Portuguese periodical publication (Barómetro da Certificação) was carried out. Results show that a great deal of the certified occupational health and safety management systems (96.3%) is integrated (in the sense that encompasses a multiple certification scheme). However the occupational health and safety management system is not typically the primordial subsystem of an integrated management system. In our view these results provide insights to the companies' top management. On one hand, it seems that a patterned and "logical" path is pursued by the companies that seek organizational excellence-management systems integration. On the other hand, it seems that previously implemented subsystems, such as the quality management system, facilitate a "smoother" integration process encompassing the occupational health and safety management system.

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“…To date, research on certification has focused on assessing whether it is a credible signal of superior practices by comparing the working conditions at certified and noncertified establishments at a given point in time (e.g., Cafaggi 2012, Egels-Zandén 2007, Locke 2013, Vinodkumar and Bhasi 2011.…”

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Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives

Bird¹,

Short²,

Toffel³

2017

SSRN Journal

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Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including legalization-adherence to a set of law-like rules and procedures-and worker participation to improve labor standards in global supply chains. Yet little is known about whether these structures are associated with improved working conditions, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving economic incentives. Drawing on the economic sociology of law and organizations and theories of organizational learning, we investigate whether and how these formal organizational structures, individually and in combination, are associated with improved working conditions. Using data on 3,276 suppliers in 55 countries, we find greater improvement at suppliers that adopt legalization structures (operationalized as management system standards) and worker participation structures (unions) and find that the combination of these structures amplifies improvement. We find less improvement at suppliers with organizational incentive structures meant to increase worker productivity (piece-rate pay), but also find that this negative relationship is attenuated by organizational legalization and worker participation structures. These findings challenge existing theories of decoupling by showing how these organizational structures can be credible signals for improvement and can also be coupled with organizational changes via processes of organizational learning, even in the face of intense efficiency demands. Furthermore, our findings suggest important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. †

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A study on the impact of management system certification on safety management

Cited by 154 publications

References 41 publications

Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Safety Management Systems as communication in an oil and gas producing company

Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives

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