Abstract
Organizational factors have long been suspected to have the greatest influence on individual and group behavior in the workplace, although there is little research on their influence in mining workplaces. In addition, there is little research on the influence of organizational factors on residual risk management in the mining industry. Consequently, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is needed in order to explore and understand this gap. This paper is a protocol developed using guidance from the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 to update a previous systematic review on a similar topic. The SLR protocol provides information related to the three sections (Administrative Information, Introduction and Methods) suggested by the PRISMA-P 2015. Eligibility criteria is divided into inclusion and exclusion criteria, which also provides the scope of the review. The search strategy will involve identifying studies published between 1980-2018 from the following electronic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Proquest, EMBASE, ASCE and CINAHL). Quality appraisal of studies will be achieved through a non-structured approach (for non-empirical studies) and a Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool for empirical studies. The review will be presented as a narrative synthesis due to the qualitative nature of the topic under review.
Highlights
Despite huge investments in safety, mining companies continue to experience unsatisfactory safety performance, including serious and fatal accidents (Aliabadi, Aghaei, Kalatpour, Soltanian, & SeyedTabib, 2018; Cornelissen, Van Hoof, & De Jong, 2017; Department of Mines and Petroleum, 2016; Dragan, Georges, & Mustafa, 2017)
Human factors proponents have advocated for an approach that recognizes the centrality of humans in the design, implementation and operation of socio-technical systems (Lowe, 2008; Rollenhagen, 2010) According to this approach, human factors are recognized as possible contributors to workplace accidents, especially during accident investigation and in subsequent risk management processes
The proposed systematic literature review (SLR) seeks to identify organizational factors that are prevalent in the mining industry and examine their relationship with other variables such as residual risk management, accident causation, repeat accidents and critical controls
Summary
Industry experience and research have shown that organizational factors in complex sociotechnical systems can be divided into several attributes such as organizational safety culture, standards and procedures, training and competence, safety-critical communication, resource allocation, decision-making, safety leadership and organizational learning (Cooper, 2002; Health and Safety Executive, 2005) Following this perspective, the proposed systematic literature review (SLR) seeks to identify organizational factors that are prevalent in the mining industry and examine their relationship with other variables such as residual risk management, accident causation, repeat accidents and critical controls. This review seeks to identify specific studies conducted within the mining industry in order to enhance the understanding of organizational factors as important contributory agents to safety accidents and determinants of risk management practices in the industry Even though this SLR protocol is not in the healthcare or clinical research domains, it will be reported using guidance from the Preferred. This will improve the information presented by the previous SLR on gaps in knowledge and informing future research efforts
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