Occupational health and safety professionals strategies to improve working environment and their self-assessed impact
dc.citation.volume | 41 | |
dc.contributor.author | Olsen K | |
dc.date.available | 2012-01-01 | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research suggests that Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practitioners have difficulty influencing the decision-making process because they are placed on the sidelines in the organisation. This paper analyses the strategies that OHS practitioners use to fulfill their job role and the impact they have on the working environment and OHS management systems. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten New Zealand OHS practitioners from mainly large private and public organisations about their job role, OHS tasks, strategies and their impact. The interviews were tape recorded, transcribed, entered into a qualitative data management programme and analysed thematically in relation to their strategies, barriers and their impact on the OHS management system and working environment. The analysis revealed that these OHS practitioners used multiple strategies - chosen in relation to the situation, the stakeholders and their own resources. They saw themselves as change agents or facilitators. They preferred to use a knowledge strategy, supported by an audit strategy. Their last resort was a regulation strategy. All of the practitioners had a positive impact on stakeholders' knowledge, attitude and behavior and on OHS management systems. Some practitioners improved the working environment but few were involved in introduction of new technology. | |
dc.description.publication-status | Published | |
dc.format.extent | 2625 - 2632 (8) | |
dc.identifier | http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000306361802129&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=c5bb3b2499afac691c2e3c1a83ef6fef | |
dc.identifier.citation | WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION, 2012, 41 pp. 2625 - 2632 (8) | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3233/WOR-2012-0506-2625 | |
dc.identifier.elements-id | 161367 | |
dc.identifier.harvested | Massey_Dark | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1051-9815 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | IOS PRESS | |
dc.relation.isPartOf | WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION | |
dc.subject | Science & Technology | |
dc.subject | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | |
dc.subject | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SSCI | |
dc.subject | Change process | |
dc.subject | change strategy | |
dc.subject | management | |
dc.subject | practitioners | |
dc.subject | influence | |
dc.subject | ERGONOMICS | |
dc.subject.anzsrc | 0913 Mechanical Engineering | |
dc.subject.anzsrc | 1117 Public Health and Health Services | |
dc.subject.anzsrc | 1701 Psychology | |
dc.title | Occupational health and safety professionals strategies to improve working environment and their self-assessed impact | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
pubs.notes | Not known | |
pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University | |
pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University/College of Health | |
pubs.organisational-group | /Massey University/College of Health/School of Health Science |
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