scholarly journals Tasks and Responsibilities of an Employer in a Digital Age: How to Comply with the Applicable Requirements for Work Conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 79-87
Author(s):  
Gaabriel Tavits
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Protection Mechanisms ◽  
Rest Time ◽  
Work Done

New forms of employment are not in line with the assumptions or terms of the labour-law rules that are in force today. In these cases, the employer has to employ different protection mechanisms in practice. If the necessary protection is to be guaranteed, there is still a need to follow work- and rest-time rules, occupational health and safety rules, etc., yet all those obligations are connected to the workplace. Because new forms of employment, however, are usually not connected to a concrete workplace, applying all of the necessary protection mechanisms is growing more complicated, particularly when the laws and regulation are out of step with technological and other development of society. In addition, difficulties arise in connection with assessment of the quality of the work done. The article examines these issues, the roles of the employer and employee in emergent forms of work, and mechanisms that represent possibilities for the future.

Recognition and Use of Sentinel Markers in Preventing Industrial Disasters

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elihu D. Richter ◽  
Pamela V. Deutsch ◽  
Jacov Adler
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Warning Sign ◽  
Shift Workers ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Alarm Systems ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Abuse ◽  
Fail Safe

AbstractWorkers, managers, occupational health and safety inspectors, and the general community can be trained to detect and promote action by the use of sentinel markers for detecting industrial disasters. A sentinel marker is a pre-disaster warning sign of impending failure in prevention. Administration sentinel markers are: weak occupational health and safety programs; lack of spontaneous access to top management; failure to accept responsibility for sub-contractors; absence of written disaster plans and drills for emergency response in the factory and in the adjacent community; non-investigation of prodromal leaks, exposures, spills, or injuries; punishment of “trouble-some” individuals (“whistleblowers”) reporting prodromal events; non-use or misuse of data on illness, injury, and absenteeism; and sub-optimal work conditions and supervision of shift workers. Information sentinel markers are: absence of worker and community right-to-know programs; non-use of data on earlier mishaps from similar technologies; and failure to provide toxicologic data to hospitals in the pre-disaster phase. Technological sentinel markers include the absence of fail-safe controls, interlocks, and automated alarm systems driven by real-time monitoring. Transportation sentinel markers include sub-optimal vehicle standards, alcohol and drug abuse, and fatigue in drivers. Preventive programs based on identification of all sentinel markers by workers and others outside a narrow spectrum of specialists are suggested to be more effective than are selective actions based on risk assessment analysis.

scholarly journals Analisis Kesehatan Dan Keselamatan Kerja Menggunakan Failure Mode And Effect Analysis Di PT. XYZ

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ramadan ◽  
Sukanta Sukanta ◽  
Risma Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Risk Priority Number ◽  
Effect Analysis ◽  
Fmea Method ◽  
Prime Condition ◽  
A Company

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is important to maintain and improve so that the quality of human resources in the company is always in prime condition. Every company has a different level or level of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS). PT. XYZ is a company that uses corrosive materials, therefore Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) analyst at PT XYZ is needed. The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) analysis carried out in this study used the FMEA method to determine which part of the production process had Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) that needed repair the most. From the research results, it was found that the highest Risk Priority Number (RPN) value was the pickling and degreasing production process.

scholarly journals Analisis Pengaruh Efektivitas Penerapan Sistem Manajemen Keselamatan dan Kesehatan Kerja (SMK3) Terhadap Produktivitas Kerja Karyawan (Studi Kasus Plant 11 PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, Tbk Citeureup)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Rini Riestiany ◽  
Ratih Maria Dhewi ◽  
Sjafri Mangkuprawira
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Work Accident ◽  
Cement Factories

<p><em>Employee is an important resource to have production process in a big factory. Factory couldn’t operate without employee. To protect their employees, the leader makes a policy like occupational health and safety. This policy for protect their employee from risk of bad accident and illness that causes of work. Bad accident can strike employee anywhere and anytime so this cases must to have a special attention. So, the leader, government, and management must pay attention to this risk.  Work accident leaning influence to manpower productivity because quality of work life and guarantee of occupational health and safety influence manpower productivity. PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, Tbk is one of the biggest cement factories in Indonesia. This factory has applicated occupational health and safety assessment base on Permenaker No. 05/MEN/1996 and OHSAS 18001. Occupational health and safety effectiveness can describe by six aspect based on Miner Theory. That theory are safety training,</em><em> </em><em>safety publication, control to work</em><em> </em><em>environment, inspection and discipline, improvement awareness of occupational health and safety, report and statistic of occupational health and safety. Five aspect of Theory Miner, can describe by employee perspective, even report and statistic of occupational health and safety can describe by secondary data from Safety Department and Management Representative of PT ITP.</em></p>

scholarly journals Methodological Challenges in the Economic Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Programmes

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Steel ◽  
Lode Godderis ◽  
Jeroen Luyten
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Reputation Effects ◽  
Future Work

An emerging issue in occupational health and safety (OHS) is that interventions increasingly have to demonstrate that they offer sufficient value for money. To this end, the last decennia have seen more and more economic evaluation methods being employed in this field. However, several recent publications have indicated that many of the published studies suffer from important shortcomings. This paper aims to highlight difficulties in assessing the value of OHS by use of current economic evaluation methods. First, a summary framework presents an overview of the costs and benefits relevant for OHS interventions. Next, three elements from this framework are selected that are at the same time crucial to OHS value, but also challenging to measure and monetise: Effects on worker productivity, ‘intangible’ benefits, such as reputation effects, and the influence of the broader legal–fiscal context in which an intervention takes place. The following sections then discuss the following research questions for each of these elements: Why is it difficult to exclude these factors from OHS economic evaluations? Why do they pose a challenge to the quality of economic evaluations in OHS? How can they be included, and what are the known advantages and disadvantages of the methods to measure these factors? Future work should investigate (and standardise) better methods to include these elements.

scholarly journals Occupational Health, Safety and Extreme Poverty: A Qualitative Perspective from Bangladesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owasim Akram
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Risk Environments ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Depth Interviews

Poor occupational health and safety damages many lives and livelihoods which impedes economic growth. Poor and unsafe work conditions are both a cause and consequence of extreme poverty. Both reinforce each other negatively. The significance of occupational health and safety is particularly strong in countries like Bangladesh where it is not addressed or explored much. This study focuses on urban and peri-urban Bangladesh drawing from: 15 Life History (LH) interviews with people who became disabled during work, 10 in-depth interviews with vulnerable workers in high risk environments; and key informant interviews (KII) with five senior management officials in high risk workplaces. Other studies have also been consulted on occupation safety in rural and urban Bangladesh. Findings confirm that extreme poor people are not only disproportionately drawn into high risk and unhealthy jobs but also the accidents and health problems that arise from these jobs exacerbate poverty. Employers were found to be reluctant to take responsibility for workers and any support offered to injured workers was mainly done out of charity. Sub-contracting was found to be potentially harmful practice of the business/industry owners which makes workers more vulnerable. The paper concludes that occupational health and safety in Bangladesh should be a higher priority in discussions of extreme poverty, its consequences and its solutions.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v4i1.10654

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