This paper discusses obstacles faced in implementing SMS and uses concrete examples to show how to overcome them across all modes of transport (air, maritime, rail and road) in leading countries, particularly ITF member countries. The difficulties and problems in implementing SMS can originate...

In almost all cases, the transport industry has adopted safety management systems (SMS) in response to a regulatory initiative. SMS vary dramatically across transport modes and jurisdictions - often because of the influence of different legacy regulatory programmes, and the attendant cultures....

System resilience is the ability for complex, dynamic-adaptive socio-technical systems to absorb and rebound from trauma or stress, and to avoid "jousting with dragons" where results are uncertain and often fatal. In a safety context, the term "dragons" originates from Professor David Woods at...

Statistics indicate that even if young workers complete vocational training, as a group they are at risk of sustaining injury. It appears that a lack of training in the area of injury prevention may explain some of this effect. Teachers are considered to be key actors in injury-prevention...

Aufgrund der erwarteten positiven Auswirkungen auf die Leistung der Beschäftigten, wird die Methode des Führens durch Ziele in einem Großteil der deutschen Unternehmen angewandt. Befragungen weisen jedoch darauf hin, dass das Führen durch Ziele auch mit negativen Auswirkungen in Verbindung...

Arbeitszeitflexibilität ist ein wichtiges Merkmal attraktiver Arbeitgeber – besonders für die junge Generation, für die Arbeit und Freizeit nicht zwangsläufig räumlich und zeitlich strikt getrennte Lebensbereiche sind. Vielerorts würden die betrieblichen Sozialpartner sowie Beschäftigte...

Since every Safety Management System (SMS) is intended to provide a framework by which an organisation manages risk, it is inevitable that accident investigators will take a close interest. The good investigator will always want to understand how the SMS was intended to control risk and how this...

Globalisation -- The legal landscape -- Governance -- The reality of risk -- The value of safety -- Corporate culture -- Change -- Safety culture -- Behaviour -- Leadership -- Leading with safety -- Engagement -- The role of the practitioner -- Performance measurement -- Health, work and...

From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract. We used micro data collected by the Italian...

This paper aims at evaluating the relationship existing between the level of health and safety of selected types of working position with their economic value. Ten stationary positions in different branches of economics were studied. Estimated costs associated with the work of man, estimated the...

Ausgewertet werden 24 Regelungen aus über 20 Jahren Vereinbarungspraxis. Quer durch unterschiedliche Branchen geht es um Umgangsweisen mit Überlastungs- bzw. Gefährdungsanzeigen. Welche Ursachen haben Überlastungssituationen? Wie wird die Interessenvertretung eingebunden? Wie gestaltet sich...

This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. The risks workers face and the control they have over those risks are weakly negatively correlated....

We study how union certification affects the enforcement of workplace-safety laws. To generate credible causal estimates, a regression discontinuity design compares outcomes in establishments where unions barely won representation elections to outcomes in establishments where union barely lost...