Process Analysis of Electronic Documents Related to Injury Investigations at A Footwear Factory

Abstract

Business process modeling is a set of technologies and standards for the design, execution, administration, and monitoring of business processes. It is an enterprise integration technology that helps managing and driving largely human-based, paper-driven processes within a corporate department. This technology has been complemented with the Electronic Document Management (EDM) system. EDM manages all the information on electronic documents mimicking the traditional movement of interoffice paper mail from desk to desk. Inter and intra integration of a company has been improved through this new way of information exchange. Although there are many researchers who have tried to analyze the best way to integrate a company with its suppliers and customers it is hard to find any special concern in sharing, flowing and retrieving information in the safety field. The present study’s main goal is to provide a methodology to improve job injury investigations in any company by implementing EDM. Even though the methodology has not have been implemented in a factory yet, the studied has run a simulation of it using real data. INCOME software was used to simulate an EDM implementation in the job injury investigation. Although the proposed model simulation was run in a footwear factory, it can be useful for different companies that want to improve their safety system. EDM can transform the efficiency of the job injury investigation process in any company, bringing significant time saving through document workflow, space saving with faster retrieval and improved security benefits across the entire network. Consequently EDM can diminish time and cost in a job injury investigation process, avoiding substantial losses for the company.