The main ideas of the SWOT. Occupational Safety and Health

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The main ideas of the SWOT. Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Safety and Health / Legislative basis for labor protection

The main objectives of the corporate occupational safety and health management system (OSMS) arise from the main goal of ensuring occupational safety - preventing industrial injuries and occupational morbidity.

Since both occur as a result of the operation of equipment controlled by workers and the interaction of workers with working conditions, the main “super-tasks” of the OSMS become: firstly, ensuring reliable and trouble-free operation of the equipment, technical and sanitary-hygienic provision of safe and hygienically acceptable working conditions, including means of so-called collective protection of workers; secondly, organizational support for the safe flow of all production processes and employee behavior (work practices), including (if necessary) the use of personal protective equipment; thirdly, the organization of activities external to the institution, but necessary for the implementation of the first and second tasks, for licensing, certification, insurance, etc.

Due to the exclusive role of personnel (in the terminology of production safety) / hired workers (in the terminology of occupational safety), without which neither the first, nor the second, nor the third super-tasks can be accomplished, all OSMS specifically highlight the training, professional qualifications and internal motivation of workers in a special "subtask".

All other tasks and activities only specify these basic, one might say fundamental, provisions.

If now from these positions we carefully look at the employer’s responsibilities for organizing the implementation of state labor protection requirements, then all of them also ultimately come down to these above provisions (taking into account the control of the employer’s actions by state supervisory authorities).

Any controlled activity aimed at achieving any goals, using human, material and financial resources and carried out by transforming initial (initial) elements into resulting (final, output) elements can be considered as a “process”. In this case, the results of one process are the initial element for the next process.

Such a process should be organized according to the “Plan - Act - Check - Adjust” method.

Any business (any process) must begin with planning specific results and actions to achieve them.

Then comes the time to act: i.e. implement planned processes.

This is followed by the stage of checking the correctness of actions and the quality of the result. To do this, it is necessary to observe (monitor) and measure indicators characterizing this process (for example, working conditions), followed by analysis of the data obtained, their generalization and conclusion - a management decision.

As a result, it is necessary to take additional actions to adjust and improve the entire management organization (or only part of it).

Authors: Fainburg G.Z., Ovsyankin A.D., Potemkin V.I.

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