Role of employee motivation in an industrial occupational risk management system

Abstract

This paper explains the importance of the issue related to motivating safe personnel behavior in the modern industrial system of occupational risk management. The medical condition of production workers as a part of the society that ensures the basis of its economic welfare is the foundation of the social policy of any state. Today, the main goal of occupational health and safety is switching to a modern occupational risk management system, which has to be scientifically justified, informative, objective, easy to understand to ensure its application both at the level of managers and specialists and at the level of laborers, and factor in the occupational risk, motivation, and competency of every worker. This can be facilitated by using an efficient method of encouraging safe working techniques through weekly assessment of an employee’s personal or active component determined according to the results of analyzing the information received from this employee concerning the identified sources of hazard, incidents or emergencies, and improving health and safety conditions. Safety of a significant part of labor processes particularly depends on the accurate, prompt, and correct reaction of an employee to particular events that occur in the process of working. Furthermore, it is necessary that the knowledge necessary for these types of situations are firmly fixed in one’s consciousness and the respective skills are well developed. According to the proposed formula, the amount of an employee’s occupational risk is directly proportional to the average occupational risk value and inversely proportional to the product of the indicators of one’s competence and motivation. Developing an efficient mechanism of personnel motivation and training in an organization’s occupational risk management system as well as justified and efficient methods of competence control and assessment will allow to reduce the number of injuries caused by unsafe actions of employees and substantially decrease the level of occupational risk within enterprises.