TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of occupational health and safety assessment series (OHSAS) standard
T2 - AHFE 2017 International Conferences on Human Factors in Management and Leadership, and Business Management and Society, 2017
AU - Kwegyir-Afful, Ebo
AU - Kwegyir-Afful, Emma
AU - Addo-Tenkorang, Richard
AU - Kantola, Jussi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Promoting the human factor of every organization is an important component that needs to be continuously up held to build employee competencies. Ultimately, this strengthens the competitiveness and sustainability of the operations within the organization. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS 18001-2007) and learning in organizations to building its core competencies. This case study was carried out by the Evolute web based research tool in four factories between May and August 2015. Results indicated that, the acquisition of OHSAS 18001:2007 standard improves employee work output as well as increases knowledge capacity. Thus, an appreciable level of occupational health and safety management system, practice and environment has positive employee effect and that, organizational learning can be facilitated by top management commitment and leadership. However, the need for an increase in tacit knowledge disbursement among employees was realized needed.
AB - Promoting the human factor of every organization is an important component that needs to be continuously up held to build employee competencies. Ultimately, this strengthens the competitiveness and sustainability of the operations within the organization. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS 18001-2007) and learning in organizations to building its core competencies. This case study was carried out by the Evolute web based research tool in four factories between May and August 2015. Results indicated that, the acquisition of OHSAS 18001:2007 standard improves employee work output as well as increases knowledge capacity. Thus, an appreciable level of occupational health and safety management system, practice and environment has positive employee effect and that, organizational learning can be facilitated by top management commitment and leadership. However, the need for an increase in tacit knowledge disbursement among employees was realized needed.
KW - Knowledge creation and core competences building
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Occupational health and safety
KW - Organizational learning
KW - Safety culture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031290665&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_38
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85031290665
SN - 9783319603711
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 395
EP - 405
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conferences on Human Factors in Management and Leadership, and Business Management and Society
A2 - Barath, Tibor
A2 - Kantola, Jussi Ilari
A2 - Nazir, Salman
PB - Springer Nature Link
Y2 - 17 July 2017 through 21 July 2017
ER -