Making work environment auditable – A ‘critical case’ study of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Denmark

Hohnen, Pernille; Hasle, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2010.12.005

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“…Outside the narrow confines of state regulation, many aspects of psychosocial risks have attracted attention. Hence, attempts are being made to revise management standards for OHS (such as OHSAS 18001) so that they encompass psychosocial risks (Hohnen & Hasle, 2011;Hohnen et al, 2014;Leka et al, 2011).…”

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“…However, the researchers all point out the difficulties in regulating psychosocial risks compared with physical and safety risks (Hohnen & Hasle, 2011;Lippel & Quinlan, 2011;Starheim & Rasmussen, 2014). The regulatory difficulties appear in both the labor/factory inspection process (Lippel & Quinlan, 2011) and in the OHSM systems auditing process (Hohnen & Hasle, 2011;Jespersen et al, 2016). In this article, we use a broad concept of regulation (inspired by Jordana & Levi-Faur, 2004) by which regulation denotes all societal actions intended to change behavior for the greater good, and we therefore include both labor inspection and OHS management (OHSM) systems audits.…”

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The Wicked Character of Psychosocial Risks: Implications for Regulation

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2016

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The Wicked Character of Psychosocial Risks: Implications for Regulation

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“…Hohnen and Hasle (2011) stressed that "…unintentionally… the certified management system does not necessarily tackle the most urgent work environment issues and may exclude important aspects of the work environment such as psychosocial factors." mainly due to the fact that the certified OHSMS "… create an environment of 'measurable and auditable facts'…" strongly focused on legal and market requirements.…”

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Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Domingues

Sampaio

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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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“…In the "audit society" (Power 1997) control, including over risk, is sought through standardization, measurement and counting (Power 2007;Hohnen and Hasle 2011;Almklov andAntonsen 2010, 2014). If possible, work is broken into manageable entities to be controlled by bureaucratic methods (such as audits or "management by objectives") or market-based means.…”

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Situated Practice and Safety as Objects of Management

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2017

Beyond Safety Training

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This chapter focuses on the relationship between representations of work (rules, procedures, models, specifications, plans) and work as a situated practice, performed by real people in always unique contexts. Empirically, it is organized around two main examples, the first one being a discussion of the compartmentalization of safety seen in shipping and the railway sector. It shows how safety, as an object of management, has become decoupled from practice, and how current discourses about safety disempower practitioners and subordinate their perspectives to more "theoretical" positions. The second is based on a study of control room operators in a space research operations setting. Here safety in the sense of avoiding harm to people is not the main concern; rather it is the reliability and robustness of an experiment on the International Space Station that is at stake. This example serves as a starting point for discussing how the research and theory on industrial safety should address the different temporalities of different work situations. It also helps to discuss the role of rules and procedures to support safety, reliability and resilience within the field of safety science. Finally, some propositions about the relationship between situated practice and the management of safety are provided: how invisible aspects of situated work might be important for safety yet hard to manage, how procedures and rules might be integrated parts of situated work as much as representations of it and how different temporalities of work situations should be included in the theorizing of safety and resilience.

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Making work environment auditable – A ‘critical case’ study of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Denmark

Cited by 91 publications

References 10 publications

The Wicked Character of Psychosocial Risks: Implications for Regulation

The Wicked Character of Psychosocial Risks: Implications for Regulation

Analysis of certified occupational health and safety management systems in Portugal

Situated Practice and Safety as Objects of Management

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