Improvements in the Production Environment Made Using Quality Management Tools

Safety in ensuring the quality of production - the role and tasks of standards requirements

“…Safety standards are defined as guidelines for managing the work environment and ensuring that production proceeds efficiently and effectively [8]. It is equally common to incorporate the principles of systemic safety management into TQM requirements, often in the form of Total Safety Management [3,[18][19][20]. TQM allows organizations to optimize the way problems are solved with proper account taken of improvements in efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction, which in turn create an environment that fosters better work performance.…”

“…To help meet the above goals, a new occupational health and safety management standard named ISO 45001 has been developed. Under its premises, improvements relying on the application of ISO 45001 are to help standardize and improve systemic activities, primarily in organizations that have previously implemented such activities in other areas of management [3,7]. Improvement measures can be performed in the same manner as those carried out in other areas of an organization's operations.…”

“…An organization that establishes an ISO 45001 compliant management system should be able to: -Adopt effective work safety management principles tailored to the specific nature of the organization's operations, in keeping with the PDCA model, consistently with the improvement principles applied in other areas of the company's management, -Define any processes that play a role in reducing work strain, taking into account their context and operating risks as well as any applicable legal requirements, -Identify any threats and assess any risks that compromise the organization's ability to perform tasks, -Raise worker awareness of hazards and improve the organization's ability to describe hazards based on risk assessment, -Assess the effectiveness of the measures taken to improve occupational safety, prevent injuries and protect people's health, -Develop an occupational safety and health protection culture across the organization, -Promote health education, with training recognized as essential for continuous improvement and for the effectiveness of improvement measures, -Provide employees with opportunities to actively contribute to the promotion of safety at work. The outcomes of the measures taken should be viewed as worker health improvements achieved by way of systemic occupational health and safety management [3,14]. To enjoy such benefits, organizations need to ensure that both their workers and management engage in promoting occupational safety [7,19,20].…”

“…The measures specified in Table 1 allow companies to benefit in many areas of their operation. These include [3,12,14,21]: -Increased ability to achieve compliance with new mandatory legal requirements, -Reduced costs of accidents and strain caused by failures to comply with requirements, -Reduced costs of production downtime and disruptions, -Lower insurance premiums as a result of decreased accident rates, MATEC Web of Conferences 183, 01005 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201818301005 QPI 2018 -Reduced absenteeism affecting the timeliness of task performance. However, to mitigate strains on work safety, organizations commonly need to modify their management practices and principles [2].…”

“…Measures aimed at ensuring safe working conditions are commonly adopted to make certain that production proceeds in conditions that are compatible with the needs of persons who remain on the production floor [1][2][3]. Once working conditions meet the expectations of such persons, direct and indirect benefits are achieved, among them greater efficiency, lower absenteeism and reduced strenuousness.…”