Occupational Health and Safety Performance Management

• Main Authors: Shang-Hsiang Wei, 魏上翔
• Other Authors: Shuh-Woei Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wujfga

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 環境工程研究所 === 96 === The systems approach for occupational health and safety management has gained worldwide acceptance since the introduction of OHSAS 18001 and ILO’s guidelines. Since most of the guidelines for health and safety management advocate continual improvement and accident prevention, performance indicators become one of the most critical tools to evaluate the effectiveness of such systems. In most practice, safety performance indicators are divided into two categories: leading and lagging. The major disadvantage of lagging performance indicators is the fact corrective actions can only be initiated after the occurrence of accidents or incidents. The disadvantage of leading performance indicators is their divergent nature, which might result in potential problems due to subjectivity. Hence this study proposes the use of integrated performance indicators to compensate for the disadvantages of both types of performance indicators. The theory of this study is based on the requirements of OHSAS 18001, successful health and safety management of HSG (65) and a guide for measuring health and safety performance proposed by UK’s HSE. In addition, this study considers the interrelationships between safety culture and safety performance indicators. Vertical and horizontal integration of safety performance indicators are also presented. Finally, based on the PDCA management cycle and the input-process-output framework, the safety performance management system and feedback process is proposed to achieve the goals of effective monitoring and continual improvement of occupational health and safety management. The proposed performance measurement process should be validated with either case studies or actual implementation. It is highly possible that additional performance indicators need to be explored since the final objective of performance measurement is to ensure the adequacy of the selected health and safety indicators.