Application of the MERIT survey in the multi-criteria quality assessment of occupational health and safety management

Abstract

Occupational health and safety management systems apply audit examinations as an integral element of these systems. The examinations are used to verify whether the undertaken actions are in compliance with the accepted regulations, whether they are implemented in a suitable way and whether they are effective. One of the earliest solutions of that type applied in the mining industry in Poland involved the application of audit research based on the MERIT survey (Management Evaluation Regarding Itemized Tendencies). A mathematical model applied in the survey facilitates the determination of assessment indexes WOPi for each of the assessed problem areas, which, among other things, can be used to set up problem area rankings and to determine an aggregate (synthetic) assessment. In the paper presented here, the assessment indexes WOPi were used to calculate a development measure, and the calculation process itself was supplemented with sensitivity analysis.

Sistemas de gestión en seguridad y salud en el trabajo (SG-SST). Diagnóstico en el sector de la construcción de Manizales

“…Una barrera de los SG-SST para ser efectivos es el inapropiado uso de las herramientas de auditoría, que pueden causar una falla en el diseño mismo del sistema . La auditoría verifica que las acciones tomadas cumplan con la regulación, se implementen correctamente y sean efectivas (Korban, 2015). Si estos componentes están bien desarrollados y su dinámica es la correcta se convierten en una ventaja, y si no funcionan, el sistema no alcanzará el óptimo desempeño.…”