Organisational Attributes that Determine Integrated Safety, Health and Environmental Management Capability

J.-P. Pantouvakis,Patrick Manu,B.T. Kalsaas,Millicent Asah-Kissiedu,Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu,L. Nazarko,C.-H. Ko,Colin Booth

doi:10.1051/matecconf/202031202009

Abstract

Implementing separate Environmental Management System (EMS) and Safety and Health Management System (SHMS) can be costly for organisations and hence the advent of integrated management systems. The effective implementation of integrated safety, health and environmental (SHE) management would require companies to have the appropriate organisational capability. Within the academic literature, it is unclear which organisational attributes are important for ascertaining integrated SHE management capability of construction companies. This study sought to address this through a comprehensive review of literature relating to SHE management in construction and SHE management systems and models. The study revealed that organisational attributes that could determine integrated SHE management capability include: senior management commitment to SHE; SHE risks management; SHE objectives and programs; staff competencies; resources for SHE implementation; SHE roles and responsibilities; SHE communications; SHE documentation and control measures; SHE emergency plans; SHE monitoring and performance measurement; and SHE auditing and management review to capture lessons learned. These attributes could enable construction companies and other key industry stakeholders to understand construction companies’ capability to implement an integrated SHE management system.

Highlights

Despite the social and economic significance of the construction sector in any nation’s economy, it has earned the unenviable rank of being one of the highest contributors to the work-related injury, accounting for not less than 30% of the work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses globally [1], [2]
These, SHE capability attributes share similarities with the requirements of existing integrated management systems, the criteria proposed by Strutt et al [18] for the development of an offshore design safety capability maturity model (DSCMM) and the health and safety maturity model (HSMM)
A significant difference, is the reliance on 12 key safety processes areas and 6 key safety factors in comparison with the 27 capability attributes that emerged in this study

Summary

Introduction

Despite the social and economic significance of the construction sector in any nation’s economy, it has earned the unenviable rank of being one of the highest contributors to the work-related injury, accounting for not less than 30% of the work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses globally [1], [2]. The construction sector is one of the main sources of environmental pollution and responsible for the substantial exploitation and consumption of both natural and processed resources. In addition to poor safety and health, the construction industry is one of the largest industrial contributors to poor environmental sustainability. There is an urgent need to improve safety, health and environment (SHE) management in the construction industry. To address the SHE problems in construction, many SHE management solutions and initiatives have emerged over the years. Amongst these initiatives have been the adoption and implementation of management systems environmental management system (EMS) and safety and health management system (SHMS). The parallel implementation of such stand-alone systems within a company can, be costly [7], [8] and having an integrated SHE management system is desirable

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