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Managing work health and safety: recent developments and future directions
Author(s) -
Gallagher Clare,
Underhill Elsa
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7941.2011.00014.x
Subject(s) - occupational safety and health , business , work (physics) , psychosocial , workplace safety , risk analysis (engineering) , knowledge management , process management , public relations , engineering , medicine , computer science , political science , mechanical engineering , pathology , psychiatry
Effective management of occupational health and safety ( OHS ) continues to pose a challenge to many organisations. While significant advancement has occurred in knowledge about traditional workplace risks, organisational and labour market changes have created new risks, psychosocial risks are more prevalent, and the trend towards the adoption of OHS management systems has produced only mixed results. These issues are the focus of this review of recent developments in workplace health and safety. We argue there is a need for organisations to refocus systematically on a collaborative approach to identifying and controlling workplace risks, and on improving the integration of OHS into broader systems and every day management to better meet existing and future OHS challenges.