Transcript Vorstellung der SiFa

HAAMAHA and Ergon-Axia 2007, Posen
Effectiveness in Health and Safety:
Summary report on the SIFA Long-Term Study
longitudinal online-survey with OH&S professionals
Schmauder, M; Höhn, K.
(Technische Universität Dresden)
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Safety System in Germany
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Labour Inspectors
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Accident Insurance
Occupational safety and
health (OHS) professionals
(Safety engineers)
in german:
Sicherheitsfachkraft = SIFA
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Background
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Legal framework
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Occupational Safety Act (ASiG, 1974)
European Framework Directive on occupational health and safety 89/391/EEC
Occupational Health and Safety Act (ArbSchG, 1996)
Operational Area
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Generally, each company (> 10 employees) has to be supervised by an OHS-professional
Task
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In compliance with regulatory requirements the OHS-professional has to counsel and
support the employer in all questions belonging to safety and health
Qualification
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OHS-professionals receive their training through the statutory accident insurance
organisation.
Change processes in the economy
Broader qualifications required by OHS-professionals
New qualification concept for OHS-professionals launched in 2001
Alteration between attendance courses (5 weeks) and computer-based self-learning
4 Central examinations
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Research Questions
(Summary)
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What are the fields of activity where newly trained OHS professionals work?
In which activities do OHS professionals have high or low effectiveness?
How do personal characteristics and competence of the OHS professionals
interact with their fields of activity and the effectiveness within their work?
What is the relation between the general corporate framework (management
systems, the care for safety and health, the size of the company, sector) with
the fields of activity and the assessment of the work of the OHS professionals?
What is the relation between social and economic changes, such as
demographic change, globalization, deregulation, and the conditions in which
an OHS professional works and with the kind of work and their effectiveness
within those working tasks?
What type of support do OHS professionals need to work more effectively in
their fields of activity?
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Timeline of the study
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
analysis/ documentation
2005
preparation/ test
2004
first survey
basic study
1st follow-up survey
basic study
in-depth &
validation study
May 2007, N=2003
2nd follow-up survey
basic study
3rd follow-up
survey
in-depth & validation
study
Short versions of
the basic study &
the in-depth &
validation study
Structure of the study
• online study
• Questionnaire
with 268 questions
• 1/3 of the
population take part
(N=2003)
• representative
sample
External Factors
General Corporate Conditions
Person
Activity
Effectiveness
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Fields of acitivity
T1 Behaviour-related
organisational protective
measures
3,8
Influencing the behaviour of employees is supposed to
analysis
of risks, employment
of The
analytical
methods
avoid
or terminate
existing risks.
work comprises
and work-flow-oriented
analyses
motivation
of employeesrisk
to wear
protective clothing
3,7
and use protectice equipment, and also instructions
and emergency management
integration into corporate actions; for example,
3,3
integration of industrial safety into management
integration
into corporate
for example,
activities
or development
of actions;
risk assessment
concepts
integration of industrial safety into management
3,2
activities or development
of risk assessment concepts
T2 Analysis of risk factors
T3 Management of
occupational health and safety
T4 Technical and
organisational design of work
systems
T5 Human-centered design of
work systems
N = 2003
2,6
1
3
4 of work 5
promotion2of health, improving
the design
high intensity
forms and working hours
low intensity
Exploratory Factor analysis (EFA) with
varimax rotation. Explained7variance: 48%
Fields of effectiveness
hierarchical structure, strategic industrial safety
3,1
management, safety and health culture, reduction of
interruptions of the work flow and downtimes caused
by injuries or illnesses
W1 Occupational health and
safety organisation and safety
culture
W2 Effectiveness relating to
risk reduction
3,1
reduction of hazards and risks
3,0
W3 Corporate benefit
economic benefit for the company as a result of
improved products and image and also higher
industrial safety and safer transportation processes
W4 Effectiveness relating to
the human-centered work
design
N = 2003
2,6
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physical
(reduction
of
physical
risks),
mental
(better
low effective
high effective
reconciliation of job and family), and social (improving
the conditions for elderly employees) design of
Exploratory Factor analysis (EFA) with
working conditions
varimax rotation. Explained8variance: 48%
Internal full-time or part-time experts who
work for their own company but also for
at least one other company: safety
professionals of this type report an
acitivity
average intensity
in all fields of activity
and an average effectiveness.
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OHSP Typ - Portfolio
B
24%
A Internal parttime OHSP
with low intensity
External safety professionals who
externally
for OHSP
one or more
B Internalwork
parttime
with low intensity
companies:
the work intensity of the
safety professionals of this type is higher
C Internal fulltime OHSP
than
average in all five fields
D Company-external
OHSP
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A
33%
E Internal part- or fulltime
OHSP, which supervises
as well the own company
as at least one other
company
N = 2003
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E
C
16% 17%
The internal full-time safety
professionals: safety
professionals of this type
show an above-average
intensity in all fields
D
10%
The internal part-time safety
professionals, who works in all five fields
of activity with a higher intensity when
compared with the average of the
general population
The internal part-time safety professionals, who works
in all five fields of activity with a low intensity
when
effectiveness
3 with the average of4the general population
compared
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Effectiveness and goal
orientation or identification
clearly identifiable 5,0
effectiveness
4,5
lowly effective industrial safety experts
niedrig wirksameSifas
highly effective industrial safety experts
hoch wirksameSifas
4,6
4,2
4,0
4,0
3,5
partly identifiable
effectiveness
3,5
3,0
co-operative goal orientation
identification
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Co-operation with the
management
clearly identifiable 4,0
effectiveness
3,5
3,26
partly identifiable
3,0
effectiveness
2,99
2,89
2,74
2,5
hardly identifiable
2,0
effectiveness
no direct communication
with the management
at all
direct communication
with the management
only by request
irregular direct
communication
with the management
regular direct
communication
with the management
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Further Results
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The more intensively OHS-professionals are concernd with an overall
risk assessment concept of a company, the higher is the effectiveness
they perceive in all fields!
Goal-oriented cooperation defines the quality of the effectiveness of
the OHS-professionals. Very successful OHS-professionals use
methods that can be circumscribed as methods of cooperative goal
orientation (socially competent and cooperatively performed goal
attainment). They also identify themselves very much with their role
and work
Small enterprises. The effectiveness of the OHS-professionals
depends not on the size of the supervised enterprise. In small
enterprises, highly committed and motivated OHS-professionals may
– given a favourable safety and health culture – produce a very high
effectiveness which can compared with the work of OHSprofessionals in large enterprises.
Cooperation with the management. The effectiveness is significantly
higher in companies where cooperation with the management is
realized directly and on a regular basis.
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Thank you for your attention!
These presentation,
further information of the project and
an english summary report
of the Sifa Long-Term Study:
www.sifa-langzeitstudie.de/download.html
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