Development and Evaluation of The Michigan Occupational Health and Safety Management System Assessment Instrument: A Universal OHSMS Performance Measurement Tool

Redinger, Charles F.; Levine, Steven P.

doi:10.1202/0002-8894(1998)059<0572:daeotm>2.0.co;2

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“…We drew our list of actions from those developed by practitioners and regulators to describe "good" health and safety. The best examples of these are found in recognition programs, such as the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) [ 17 ] and in health and safety management systems proposed by individuals and organizations [ 18 - 20 ]. Several occupational health professionals with small business experience and a range of perspectives (e.g.…”

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Small business owners' health and safety intentions: A cross-sectional survey

Brosseau

2005

Environ Health

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Background: Little is known about the variables underlying small business owners' behavioural intentions toward workplace health and safety. This project explores the relationship between three mediating variables (Attitude Toward Safety, Subjective Norm and Perceived Behavioural Control) and owners' Intentions Toward Safety, following the Theory of Planned Behaviour. We also investigate the role of beliefs underlying each mediating variable.

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Small business owners' health and safety intentions: A cross-sectional survey

Brosseau

2005

Environ Health

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“…33,36 Another two were associated with the American Industrial Hygiene Association. 37,38,[41][42][43][44][45] Several of the audits were intended for multiple sectors of the economy, whereas others target a single sector. The number of items in each audit instrument is in the range of less than 100 to several hundred.…”

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Measurement Properties of Occupational Health and Safety Management Audits: A Systematic Literature Search and Traditional Literature Synthesis

Robson

Bigelow

2010

Can J Public Health

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A n occupational health and safety (OHS) management system is designed to protect the health of workers by the following means: designating roles and responsibilities related to OHS; setting organizational targets and objectives related to OHS; planning and establishing the maintenance of hazard controls; and monitoring, reviewing and improving the system's implementation and effectiveness. Federal and provincial legislation (e.g., the Occupational Health and Safety Act in Ontario) specifies simple management systems applicable to all workplaces. Exemplary organizations also seek compliance with voluntary standards and guidelines 1-3 that are more comprehensive. Auditing is a means of directly and comprehensively monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of a firm's OHS management system. 4 The auditing process typically involves the following: 5 gathering evidence about the management system through interviews, documentation reviews and work site observations, guided by an audit instrument; evaluating the gathered evidence; and providing a summary of the evaluative findings. Auditing is an important component of an OHS management system, 1-3 and up to 95% of Fortune 2000 companies perform audits. 6 While less prevalent in smaller firms, audits are recognized as nevertheless relevant. 7 Depending on the type of application in which a particular OHS management audit is involved, researchers and practitioners might want to consider its measurement properties (i.e., reliability, validity, etc.). In some cases, measurement properties are relatively less important. For example, simple audits are sometimes used to assess the management and programmatic needs of organizations that are just starting to develop their OHS management systems. 8 Similarly, there are firms in which management systems are more developed but in which audits are used periodically only to ensure that there are no major gaps in the management system. In these two situations, only a blunt measurement instrument is needed, though one would want some assurance of its content validity: one would want to be confident that the key elements of an OHS management system, appropriate for the organization, are adequately represented in the content of the audit instrument, otherwise it cannot serve its function of identifying gaps. In contrast to the previous examples, additional measurement properties (e.g., interauditor reliability, predictive validity, responsiveness) might also be quite important when audits are used in performance measurement applications. These include benchmarking, determining whether a particular standard has been met or monitoring progress over time. Measurement properties may be additionally important in such applications when the results of audits determine organi

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“…First, some of the best practices in operations are also considered to be best practices in safety, including employee participation, 12,13 preventive maintenance, 14,15 good housekeeping, 16,17 standardized (safe) operating procedures, 12,15 and continuous improvement. 12,15 Moreover, formal management systems for quality (ISO 9001), the environment (ISO 14001), and OHS (OHSAS 18001) have analogous elements and aligned structures, 15 such that many organizations integrate these systems.…”

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