Starting Anew with a Joint Effort to Improve Safety on the Job: The Case of Sewage Workers
Dubois, Carol
Starting Anew with a Joint Effort to Improve Safety on the Job: The Case of Sewage Workers - 2013.
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This paper is a summary of what occurred when the authors were commissioned by a waste collection company to investigate why accidents at work were on the rise despite a considerable emphasis on safety. By observing working practices and interviewing personnel throughout the company hierarchy, the authors discovered that a culture and a distinctive identity had developed in risk-taking. The authors recommended that the company abandon their over-reliance on technology and management systems in favor of collaborative thinking. Such an innovative approach would enable the company to steer a middle course between the need to take into account the demands of the job on a person???s body over time, and the need to provide a quality service on a daily basis.
Starting Anew with a Joint Effort to Improve Safety on the Job: The Case of Sewage Workers - 2013.
34
This paper is a summary of what occurred when the authors were commissioned by a waste collection company to investigate why accidents at work were on the rise despite a considerable emphasis on safety. By observing working practices and interviewing personnel throughout the company hierarchy, the authors discovered that a culture and a distinctive identity had developed in risk-taking. The authors recommended that the company abandon their over-reliance on technology and management systems in favor of collaborative thinking. Such an innovative approach would enable the company to steer a middle course between the need to take into account the demands of the job on a person???s body over time, and the need to provide a quality service on a daily basis.
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