Management of occupational safety and health : an analysis of the findings of the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER)

This report provides an analysis of the findings collected in ESENER on the management of occupational safety and health. The data analysis is informed by a literature review on the issue of OSH management and effective ways of managing OSH. The latter produced a conceptual framework on how to manage OSH systematically and more effectively. This framework was used to design the empirical analysis. The analysis in this report had five goals: • to identify sets of practices from ESENER data that are associated with effective management of OSH; • to define a typology for establishments according to their characteristics (country, size, age, sector or industry); • to draw on expert knowledge to explain the context features that have greatest influence on establishments' commitment to effective management of OSH; • to understand the similarities or differences between the employers' and employee representatives' perspectives; and • to discuss the policy implications arising from the analysis. This report, as such, does not reflect on how the survey instrument was designed, the sampling, response rates, representativeness, and the way the data was collected. These aspects are described in a report (2) by TNS Infratest Sozialforschung, Germany, the organisation that managed the design, sampling, and implementation of the survey across 31 countries on behalf of EU-OSHA. This report has four substantive sections: Chapter 2 contains the literature review; Chapter 3 introduces the conceptual framework used to inform the empirical analysis; Chapter 4 presents the main findings from the empirical analysis; and Chapter 5 offers conclusions and discusses policy implications arising from the results. The research approach used for this report is outlined in Appendix A (http://osha.europa.eu/en/publications/reports/esener_management_annexes/view), the technical note on the empirical analysis. Appendix B describes how the literature review was conducted. The report is a sister report to the report produced by RAND Europe 'Psychosocial risk management - analysis of data from the European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER)'. It used a similar research approach to derive findings. As such, this report shares the same structure and certain sections are similar, including the introduction, the sections on research approach, and the section outlining the limitations of ESENER.