Is Safe Production an Oxymoron?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pagell, Mark; Johnston, David; Veltri, Anthony; Klassen, Robert; Biehl, Markus
• 署名单位: University College Dublin; York University - Canada; Oregon State University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• DOI: 10.1111/poms.12100
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 1161-1175
• 关键词: operational safety; human resources; practices; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

摘要

This research examines how organizations simultaneously manage their operations and occupational health and safety. Although both safety and operations scholars conduct research in the same operational settings, they have reached different, yet untested, conclusions about the relationship between creating a safe workplace and creating a productive workplace. The results from a series of 10 case studies show that it is possible to create safe and productive workplaces, but that many facilities fail at this task because of problems associated with the culture management creates and the practices management adopts.