How compatible are participatory ergonomics programs with occupational health and safety management systems?

Yazdani, Amin; Neumann, Patrick; Imbeau, Daniel; Bigelow, Philip; Pagell, Mark; Théberge, Nancy; Hilbrecht, Margo; Wells, Richard

doi:10.5271/sjweh.3467

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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.…”

Section: Certifiable Occupational Health and Safety Management Systemsmentioning

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Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Domingues

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Arezes

2017

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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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Section: Certifiable Occupational Health and Safety Management Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Domingues

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2017

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“…Whether a decision about changes in the work environment is efficient, and its expected net benefits are great, depends on whether the information from relevant studies is complete. However, most studies in occupational health sciences are focused partially on the psychosocial work environment [5,28,29], the ergonomic work conditions [6,30,31], and the physical characteristics of the workplace [7,8,32], while the socioeconomic impacts of the work environment have not been given enough attention. One-dimensional studies of the work environment impair not only the improvement of occupational health and labour productivity, but also the estimation of the economic results and thus the valuation of such studies.…”

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Economic Decisions on Proposed Work Environmental Studies – a Theory for Cost and Value of Information

Rezagholi¹

2016

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Assessment studies of occupational exposures are retrospectively evaluated based on their achieved statistical efficiency and/or their imposed costs. However, any decision on the performance of such studies strongly requires an economic evaluation in advance. The economic evaluation of proposed work environmental studies needs, in turn, access to information on the socio-economic impacts of occupational exposures. The present article aims to help policy makers in their decisions on proposed work environmental studies by introducing a cost-value approach to the information to be produced during the studies. The cost-value approach is not exposed to subjective judgements, as in the approach of "willingness to pay", nor to consideration of invaluable statistical efficiency as "output", as in exposure assessment studies. The work environmental study investigated in this article contained three different groups of occupational exposures that caused sickness absences and impairments at work in a Swedish company, Sandvik Materials Technology. The results show that the suggested study would be acceptable to the policy makers in the company, as its estimated value was strictly greater than its estimated costs.

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“…Participative Ergonomics (PE) practices are commonly presented as a desirable approach for the prevention of MSD (Noro and Imada, 1991). Ergonomic programs for the prevention of MSD vary in complexity, but most of those reported in the literature appear to be set up in isolation from management system frameworks (Yazdani et al, 2015). This isolation was perhaps first conceived to highlight the work-relatedness of MSD and to increase the awareness that these disorders are as important as acute injuries.…”

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How compatible are participatory ergonomics programs with occupational health and safety management systems?

Cited by 41 publications

References 29 publications

Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Economic Decisions on Proposed Work Environmental Studies – a Theory for Cost and Value of Information

Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders within management systems: A scoping review of practices, approaches, and techniques

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