Integrating safety and quality: Building to achieve excellence in the workplace

Warrack, Barry J.; Sinha, Madhav N.

doi:10.1080/0954412997802

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“…The result supports previous literature which pointed out that lack of ergonomics would decrease worker productivity consequently, safer and healthier workplace environment help firms achieve higher level of quality and productivity, and workplace environment increase firm performance, such as an increase in productivity and work quality, while a decrease in lost time at work [59][60][61]. Innovation for safety of workers and/or workplace environment increases innovation performance highly, as in previous studies, which leads to higher innovation efficiency.…”

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confidence: 80%

The Effect of Sustainability as Innovation Objectives on Innovation Efficiency

2018

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Though sustainability exists as major objective of pursuing innovation, the effect of it on innovation performance is still unanswered. While the outcome of innovation should consider both input and output, moreover, studies on sustainable innovation are yet to consider the overall efficiency, but rather the performance itself. To fill the gap between the effect of sustainability as the objective of innovation and its innovation performance, and to bridge the hole between the outcome of sustainable innovation and its efficiency, we analyze the relationship between sustainability as innovation objective and innovation efficiency. We use 441 manufacturing companies in Korea from 2016 KIS data, and perform the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to calculate efficiency score of each firm and tobit regression analysis to investigate the effect of sustainability as an objective of innovation on innovation efficiency. The results show that the objective of 'environmental improvement' negatively affects innovation efficiency, while 'safety improvement' positively affects the efficiency. On the contrary, the effect of 'material and energy reduction' as an objective of innovation on innovation efficiency is not verified. The implications, limitations, and guidelines for future research are presented.

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confidence: 80%

The Effect of Sustainability as Innovation Objectives on Innovation Efficiency

2018

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“…Safety and profit are therefore not incompatible goals, but are seen in some companies as complementary because they share similar drivers, and integration is the key. 61 In contrast, in the majority of companies managers see themselves as having to balance the competing requirements of safety and productivity/profitability, which means that trade off decisions may be required. 62 This view is endorsed by major accident case studies that reveal that pressure to maintain production was implicated in the causation chain.…”

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Leadership for safety: industrial experience

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2004

Quality and Safety in Health Care

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“…Pérusse (1997a, b, c, d ;1998a, b, c, d), dans une série d'articles, montre bien la possibilité de transposer au domaine de la SST pour le contexte québécois le processus de certification de l'une ou l'autre des normes ISO 9001-9002-9003. Warrack et Sinha (1999) ont aussi analysé la « corrélation » entre qualité et sécurité dans le contexte canadien, à partir de la perspective de Adams (1995) qui montre que les deux champs relèvent d'une même logique. Ainsi, si les méthodes d'amélioration qualitative cherchent à minimiser la variabilité de la qualité des produits, la gestion de la sécurité minimise les probabilités d'incidents dangereux pour les travailleurs.…”

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“…Ainsi, si les méthodes d'amélioration qualitative cherchent à minimiser la variabilité de la qualité des produits, la gestion de la sécurité minimise les probabilités d'incidents dangereux pour les travailleurs. Warrack et Sinha (1999) démontrent en recourant aux sept critères du Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award que l'amélioration de la sécurité et de la qualité relève de forces motrices similaires. Ils affirment que : « L'intégration est la clé.…”

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