Social and organisationnal presuppositions for health and safety management systems implementation: an experiment into ten french firms

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Marc Favaro, Eric Drais
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/130
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 121-139 File size 287 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2013-130008
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A study of the implementation of Occupational Safety and Health Management Systems (OSHMS) was carried out in ten French enterprises. The aim was to identify their characteristics of use in order to debate the advantages and the practical limitations of OSHMS, then to draw up suggestions. Two levels of results are presented: comparative examination and a typological classification of OSHMS. The analyses show that an OSHMS contributes to the structuring of the prevention actions. However, the domination of highly-Taylorian principles of actions leads to expressing reservations as to their real efficiency for prevention.

Keywords: Health, prevention, reference systems, risks, safety, standards

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Marc Favaro, Eric Drais, I presupposti sociali ed organizzativi per l’implementazione dei sistemi di gestione della salute e sicurezza sul lavoro: l’esperienza di dieci imprese francesi in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 130/2013, pp 121-139, DOI: 10.3280/SL2013-130008