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Les préoccupations environnementales ont généré une croissance rapide des emplois « verts », mais une évaluation insuffisante des risques posés par ces nouvelles technologies et processus pour la santé et la sécurité des travailleurs. Avec le projet Prévoyance, l'Agence Européenne pour la sécurité et la santé au travail (EU-OSHA) a pour objectif d'identifier les risques nouveaux et émergents de l'économie verte. En effet, les emplois verts sont susceptibles d'engendrer...
The goals of this quantitative and qualitative study were to explore the four following questions: (1) what kinds of views do OSH inspectors have on the application and function of the Enforcement Act, (2) how do the OSH inspectors define the effectiveness of OSH enforcement, (3) how effective are the enforcement practices, and (4) how can the effectiveness of OSH enforcement be improved. In Finland the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health oversees the activities of the OSH divisions, which operate in the Regional State Administrative Agencies. A total of 229 inspectors responded to the questionnaire;...
The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an occupational injury prevention program, known as the Preferential Action Plan (PAP), focused on companies with high incidence rates of occupational injuries. We studied 1189 companies in the industrial, construction and services sectors between 1999 and 2007 in the Valencia region (Spain). Our sample included 507,262 workers, among whom 44,250 non-fatal occupational injuries with at least a workday lost were registered. Companies included in a PAP program were divided into three intervention groups, according to the year that each company entered...
December 18—Slide presentations from the Institute for Work & Health's International Symposium on the Challenges of Workplace Injury Prevention through Financial Incentives (FIS 2012) are now posted online, where available. Slidecasts of most keynote presentations at the symposium, held in late November in Toronto, will also be available shortly. On November 29 and 30, 2012, the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) hosted the International Symposium on the Challenges of Workplace Injury Prevention through Financial Incentives. More than 180 researchers, students, policy-makers, members...
This research has looked to identify factors which have contributed to the London 2012 Olympic Park being delivered on time, on budget and with an exemplary health and safety record. Where other research has captured 'how' things were done, this research has explored 'why' and focused on the underpinning human and organisational interactions. The research has tapped in to the close-out and lessons learnt activities for six of the venue and infrastructure projects. In addition interviews were conducted with executives from the Olympic Delivery Authority as client, their Delivery...
A new study focusing on the effects of incident reporting within a radiation oncology department suggests that encouraging reporting of errors and incidents can improve safety measures, safety performance and employees’ perceptions of safety. Source : http://ehstoday.com/safety/study-encouraging-incident-reporting-leads-improved-safety-culture http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/10/safety/
Are your safety inspections becoming routine? If something is lacking in your safety inspection process, maybe one of these suggestions from Milliken & Co., a two-time America's Safest Company, can help energize employees and improve the process. Common practice for safety inspections entails review of a lengthy list of compliance-slanted audit elements by a small number of safety professionals or other managers. While this process has merit, your overall safety inspection mechanism can be enhanced in order to energize the culture and achieve even greater returns. These five easy launch...
Government occupational health and safety systems no longer meet the challenges of today's workplaces, and policy-makers across Canada and the United States need to adopt a new approach, an OHS expert told a gathering at the Institute for Work and Health (IWH) in Toronto last week. Source : http://www.cos-mag.com/hygiene/hygiene-stories/speaker-at-ohs-lecture-calls-for-modernized-approach-to-prevention.html
New laws to improve worker participation in health and safety matters and toughen up directors' duties should be given early attention, according to an official report into the Pike River mining tragedy in New Zealand two years ago. The Pike River coal mine, which lies on the west coast of the South Island, exploded on 19 November 2010, due to the ignition of a large volume of methane gas. Twenty-nine men underground died immediately, or soon afterwards, either from the blast or from the toxic atmosphere. Over the next nine days the mine exploded three more times before it was sealed. The Royal...
Problem of analysis or/and of analyst? "Current operating feedback systems in industry show some limits since, in numerous industrial companies, the numbers of events do not decrease anymore and similar events seem to recur. Our assumption is that weaknesses come mainly from analysis methodology used. After a description of analysis methodology history, we focus on interest of applying an organisational analysis of events, familiar to scholars but not yet applied in industry, and we describe its main characteristics after defining what we mean by “organisation”. Then we highlight...
The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022 has been published by Safe Work Australia. The strategy provides a framework to drive improvements in work health and safety and is aimed at governments, work health and safety regulators, industry, unions and other organisations that influence work health and safety in workplaces across Australia. The strategy sets four outcomes to be achieved by 2022: •reduced incidence of work-related death, injury and illness; •reduced exposure to hazards and risks; •improved hazard controls; •improved work health and safety infrastructure...
A l’occasion des trente ans des CHSCT, le réseau ANACT a mené une enquête auprès de 27 CHSCT, afin d’interroger...leurs conditions de travail. Portrait d’une instance qui a parfois du mal à se positionner. Un anniversaire bilan; Une étude qualitative ; Un supplément de douze propositions Source : http://www.npdc.aract.fr/IMG/pdf/TEC345_BAT4.pdf
A new infographic from Graphic Products reveals how OSHA has helped reduce occupational injuries and deaths in the United States by more than 60 percent in the last 4 decades. Source : http://ehstoday.com/osha/infographic-osha-s-role-reducing-occupational-injuries-fatalities
HSE and other regulators involved in investigating any work-related death want to work together as effectively and efficiently as possible. To help to do this protocols and liaison arrangements between the various organisations have been agreed and recorded in Work-related Death Protocols (WRDP). Source : http://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/wrdp/index.htm?eban=govdel-police&cr=02-Nov-2012
The removal of a compulsory retirement age may have implications for health and safety at work, and as such is a cross-cutting issue for HSE. HSE is concerned that some workers may continue to perform tasks with deteriorating performance. This may be a particular issue in safety critical and major hazard industries, and could potentially lead to an increase in the risk of major incidents or injury. More generally, dutyholders may also be finding it difficult to judge whether workers have the functional capacity to work to the required level of safe performance. This piece of work has aimed to assess...
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