Exploring the Importance of the Management of Health and Safety Risks
This paper examines the employee’s perceptions about Health and Safety Risks in the Organizations specifically the violence, included harassment (moral and sexual) phenomena considered emerging risk by EU-OSHA. Questions surveyed adapted from European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks questionnaire with data collected(N =407).The results show that health and safety risks are affected by obstacles like a lack of resources such as time, staff or money, a lack of awareness, a lack of training and or expertise, a lack of technical support or guidance, culture within the establishment, and sensitivity of the issue, as well as the difficulties and obstacles in dealing with the risks significantly affect the management and decision making.
The Challenge of Change for Strategies on Health and Safety at Work in the 21st Century*
Abstract In the year of IOSH’s 60th anniversary, this paper discusses some of the features of the current landscape of health and safety in Britain. It focuses especially on the nature of change and its consequences. The consequences of the structure of change in the organisation of work, employment relationships and the labour market are therefore central to its concerns, but so are the implications for the health and safety policy and practice of wider political, regulatory and economic reforms in this country.
Computer Simulation Modeling
Computer simulation as a research methodology is presented as the intersection of modeling, simulation, and computer analysis. Five component parts of simulation models are identified: input variables, output variables, assumptions, algorithms, and parameters. Computer simulation (CSM) has two primary uses for those interested in the study of organizations or who work within them: theory development and policy planning. The advantages and disadvantages of CSM for each of these purposes are examined and recent examples for each are explored.