A study was conducted to advance the state of knowledge and practice on the topic of using leading indicators to measure occupational health and safety (OHS) performance of organizations. The specific research aims were to (1) describe the extent to which OHS practitioners understand leading indicators; (2) explore organizational practices pertaining to tracking, analyzing, and applying informa...

Health protection at work is not only a matter of national policy and legislation. For many years, standards for occupational safety and health (OSH) have been elaborated at an international level. Organizations, such as International Labor Organization (ILO), World Health Organization (WHO), and also Council of Europe and European Economic Community (currently European Union-EU) have been acti...

This article examined the perception of employees regarding the management of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in public hospital in Malaysia. 418 employees from three state hospitals in the northern region of Malaysia participated in this study and that gave a response rate of 43.15%. Data was collected using a set of questionnaires which consists of variables including safety satisfaction...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact occupational health and safety (OHS) certification training on SMEs technology startups. focus a program provided by Deputy at Ministry Cooperatives improve worker awareness, compliance, skills in OHS. A qualitative approach was used, with data collected through in-depth interviews observations. Respondents were employees from startups who had com...

BACKGROUND The Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) literature shows that noise could represent a risk factor for professional orchestral musicians. The continuative exposition to elevated noise levels and the particular nature of the activity make necessary an "atypical" OH&S approach, which was identified to be necessarily organizational. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, a parametric-b...

Many previous studies have reported that the occupational health and safety (OHS) enforcement is poor in developing countries, however these mainly focused on broader problems not fully considered challenges confronting institutions responsible for enforcing OHS standards at workplaces. In this study, twelve potential were identified from an extensive literature review, then empirical investiga...