Designing a Map for Analyzing and Measuring Safety Performance
Haapavirta, Roosa (2020)
Haapavirta, Roosa
2020
Tuotantotalouden DI-ohjelma - Master's Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management
Tekniikan ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2020-09-16
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202009146994
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202009146994
Tiivistelmä
Occupational health and safety (OHS) has been found to have a significant impact on an organization's performance, which is why successful safety management and performance management are essential in companies. Challenges for management are posed by the large amount of measurement data related to workplace safety. The overall picture of the factors related to the improvement of occupational health and safety is unclear, and the efficiency of the indicators is not fully known. This master's thesis studies how safety performance can be modeled visually as a map. The research aims to identify factors that affect a company's safety performance, understand the relationships between these identified factors, and study how the factors can be measured.
The theoretical part of the study is a literature review that examines previous academic research on the topics of safety management and performance measurement. A general level theoretical framework that describes the perspectives influencing safety performance is created based on the literature findings. The framework was supplemented in the empirical phase of the study by a more detailed description. Also, the theory of measuring safety performance was studied. It was found that the literature recommends emphasizing the use of proactive indicators in safety management.
The empirical part of the study was conducted as a qualitative multiple case study. Four companies from different industries participated in the creation of the safety performance map, and the map was later tested in three companies. The qualitative material of the research consisted of the notes of the workshops organized during the research project.
The study identified a wide range of factors affecting safety performance and found relationships between some of them. The factors were found to be broadly the same in different industries. However, the factors were found to be specified or emphasized depending on the industry, size, geographical fragmentation, stage of the company's life cycle, and the company's safety maturity. Based on the study, the current safety measurement in companies focuses on measuring only a few factors, and proactive measures are lacking. The study presents examples of proactive leading, qualitative indicators identified in the literature. The proposed indicators can be used to measure the factors more accurately.
The theoretical part of the study is a literature review that examines previous academic research on the topics of safety management and performance measurement. A general level theoretical framework that describes the perspectives influencing safety performance is created based on the literature findings. The framework was supplemented in the empirical phase of the study by a more detailed description. Also, the theory of measuring safety performance was studied. It was found that the literature recommends emphasizing the use of proactive indicators in safety management.
The empirical part of the study was conducted as a qualitative multiple case study. Four companies from different industries participated in the creation of the safety performance map, and the map was later tested in three companies. The qualitative material of the research consisted of the notes of the workshops organized during the research project.
The study identified a wide range of factors affecting safety performance and found relationships between some of them. The factors were found to be broadly the same in different industries. However, the factors were found to be specified or emphasized depending on the industry, size, geographical fragmentation, stage of the company's life cycle, and the company's safety maturity. Based on the study, the current safety measurement in companies focuses on measuring only a few factors, and proactive measures are lacking. The study presents examples of proactive leading, qualitative indicators identified in the literature. The proposed indicators can be used to measure the factors more accurately.