[Qualitative evaluation of employer requirements associated with occupational health and safety as good practice in small-scale enterprises].
Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi
; 51(5): 49-59, 2009 Sep.
Article
em Ja
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19654473
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to identify what motivates employers to promote good occupational health and safety practices in small-scale enterprises. Previous studies have shown that small-scale enterprises generally pay insufficient attention to issues of occupational health and safety. These findings were mainly derived from questionnaire based surveys. Nevertheless, some small-scale enterprises in which employers exercise good leadership do take a progressive approach to occupational health and safety. Although good practices can be identified in small-scale enterprises, it remains unclear what motivates employers in small-scale enterprises to actively implement occupational health and safety practices. We speculated that identifying employer motivations in promoting occupational health would help to spread good practices among small-scale enterprises. Using a qualitative approach based on the KJ methods, we interviewed ten employers who actively promote occupational health and safety in the workplace. The employers were asked to discuss their views of occupational health and safety in their own words. A semi-structured interview format was used, and transcripts were made of the interviews. Each transcript was independently coded by two or more researchers. These transcripts and codes were integrated and then the research group members discussed the heading titles and structural relationships between them according to the KJ method. Qualitative analysis revealed that all the employers expressed a strong interest in a "good company" and "good management". They emphasized four elements of "good management", namely "securing human resources", "trust of business partners", "social responsibility" and "employer's health condition itself", and considered that addressing occupational health and safety was essential to the achievement of these four elements. Consistent with previous findings, the results showed that implementation of occupational health and safety activities depended on "cost", "human resources", "time to perform", and "advisory organization". These results suggest that employer awareness of the relationship between good management and occupational health is essential to the implementation of occupational health and safety practices in small-scale enterprises.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Gestão de Recursos Humanos
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Saúde Ocupacional
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Ja
Revista:
Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA OCUPACIONAL
Ano de publicação:
2009
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Japão