Corporate Safety Research Articles

Economic costs of poor PSC manifest in sickness absence and voluntary turnover

Abstract Work-related stress is a major occupational health and safety (OHS) issue that has industrial relations origins. Aside from the moral and human rights imperatives to improve the corporate climate for worker psychological health (as per psychosocial safety climate, PSC), there are strong economic costs for not doing so. PSC refers to worker perceptions of the corporate safety system to protect and promote workers’ psychological health and wellbeing. It is a leading indicator of working conditions, which in turn affect workers’ health and work engagement. In this study, we estimate the attributable economic cost of low PSC due to sickness absence and turnover. Data were collected from a multinational company using survey at Time 1 (T1) and objective company data (i.e., sickness absence and turnover) after one year (T2). Using regression analysis and a matched sample of 617 responses, PSC was negatively related to future sickness absence. A binomial logistic regression with 1268 respondents (i.e., all responses at T1) showed that PSC was negatively related to future voluntary turnover. An economic analysis suggests that improving OHS via PSC could save an organisation with 5000 employees USD 0.6–2.7 million per year. Building PSC to protect and promote workers’ psychological health is a likely economic saving on organisational productivity.

Research on the Game Strategy of Mutual Safety Risk Prevention and Control of Industrial Park Enterprises under Blockchain Technology

Systematic management of corporate safety risks in industrial parks has become a hot topic. And risk prevention and control mutual aid is a brand-new model in the risk and emergency management of the park. In the context of blockchain, how to incentivize enterprises to actively invest in safety risk prevention and control mutual aid has become a series of key issues facing government regulators. This paper innovatively combines Prospect Theory, Mental Accounting, and Evolutionary Game Theory to create a hypothetical model of limited rationality for the behavior of key stakeholders (core enterprises, supporting enterprises, and government regulatory departments) in mutual aid for safety risk prevention and control. Under the static prize punishment mechanism and dynamic punishment mechanism, the evolutionary stabilization strategy of stakeholders was analyzed, and numerical simulation analysis was performed through examples. The results show: (1) Mutual aid for risk prevention and control among park enterprises is influenced by various factors, including external and subjective elements, and evolves through complex evolutionary paths (e.g., reference points, value perception). (2) Government departments are increasingly implementing dynamic reward and punishment measures to address the shortcomings of static mechanisms. Government departments should dynamically adjust reward and punishment strategies, determine clearly the highest standards for rewards and punishments, and the combination of various incentives and penalties can significantly improve the effectiveness of investment decisions in mutual aid for safety risk prevention and control. (3) Continuously optimizing the design of reward and punishment mechanisms, integrating blockchain technology with management strategies to motivate enterprise participation, and leveraging participant feedback are strategies and recommendations that provide new insights for promoting active enterprise investment in mutual aid for safety risk prevention and control. The marginal contribution of this paper is to reveal the evolutionary pattern of mutual safety risk prevention and control behaviors of enterprises in chemical parks in the context of blockchain.

A CORRELATIONAL STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY CULTURE, EMPLOYEES' SAFETY BEHAVIOR AND PRODUCTIVITY- A CASE STUDY OF ONGC, MAHARASHTRA

This research seeks to establish a correlation between the safety culture of ONGC in Maharashtra and their employees’ safety attitude as well as their productivity profile. Conducting this study as a correlational research, quantitative research data was collected from a sample of the ONGC human resource through structured questionnaires. This study confirmed the hypothesis that the corporate safety culture that is strong and developed has an impact on employees’ safety behaviours’ improvement. Moreover, I found that enhanced safety behaviours have a direct impact on productivity in relation to the employees. This research helps to enhance the best practices of safety culture to improve organisational safety and efficiency in the integrated oil and gas industries more effectively. The conclusions made from the research have several managerial implications with regard to the improvement of safety measures, and the general performance of the organisation. Suggestions for the future works include examining other factors which can influence the safety culture and productivity relationship in similar industrial organisations.

Study and Action Plan on the Key Factors Influencing Unsafe Behaviors by Construction Workers

As front-line workers on construction projects, construction workers have always had the highest accident rate among workers in various industries, a statistic that significantly impacts society. In this study, the 2–4 Model was used to identify 14 influencing factors affecting workers’ unsafe behaviors, and a safety management index for construction workers was established. The fuzzy decision-making laboratory analysis method (Fuzzy-DEMATEL) and the interpretative structural model (ISM) were used to analyze the hierarchical structure, internal relations, and key influencing factors behind the unsafe behaviors in question, and the 14 factors affecting them were divided into five dimensions, including the technological environment, insufficient safety knowledge, and the corporate safety culture. The three most direct influencing factors (comprising eight key nodes in the constructed hierarchy) were found to be poor safety awareness, the violation of operating procedures, and skill errors. Therefore, the main paths toward reducing the level of unsafe behavior among construction workers include making changes in process equipment, addressing skill-related errors, ensuring adherence to operating procedures, improving safety awareness, and enhancing safety knowledge. In this study, we identify and classify the factors influencing unsafe behaviors by construction workers and propose scientific interventions with which to prevent the continued occurrence of safety hazards among them.

Truck Driving Assessment for Chinese Logistics and Transportation Companies Based on a Safety Climate Test System

By applying the “safety atmosphere” measurement theory to Chinese management companies engaged in road transportation, a corporate and individual safety risk assessment system was established that is consistent with the management and cultural climate in China, thereby reducing the driving safety risk of truck drivers. The system realizes the safety risk assessment of enterprises, fleets and individuals in the form of test scales by constructing a structural model of the enterprise safety atmosphere, including the management, communication, and supervision of enterprises, fleets, and individuals. The safety climate was modeled using a two-level framework, at the organizational level and fleet level, and three dimensions of test items for each level were obtained by exploratory factor analysis. The three dimensions of safety management, safety supervision, and safety priority at the organizational level, and the three dimensions of positive communication, safety awareness, and self-discipline at the fleet level, respectively, passed a valid factorial test (p < 0.01). Finally, the validity of the system evaluation results was verified by relying on the actual in-vehicle monitoring data and accident records of the corporate transportation fleet. The results show that the total test scores at the organizational level and the fleet level are significantly correlated with their driving risk behaviors, and both are linearly and negatively correlated with the number of accidents per thousand kilometers. This indicates a high degree of consistency between the system’s test results and actual risky accidents.

Analysis Of Factors Influencing Patient Safety Incidents at Royal Prima Medan General Hospital in 2021

Incident safety patients must be minimized to avoid undesirable danger during maintenance in the hospital. Perception of health workers reporting patient safety incidents at the Royal Prima Medan General Hospital still needs to be higher. Low perception of health workers in writing incident Patient safety is related to individual and organizational factors. The study aims to identify the influence factor on patients' personal and corporate incident safety in the inpatient room of royal prima hospital medan. The type of research used is a method survey with a cross-sectional approach. The population in the study of health workers at the Royal Prima General Hospital in Medan was 259 people, and the sample was 119. Collection data with primary, secondary, and tertiary data was analyzed with multiple logistic regression statistical tests with a level of trust of 95%. Results study show bring individual factors (knowledge with p-value = 0.021 and experience with p-value=0.021) effect-on-patient safety incident reporting and organizational factors (organizational environment with p-value = 0.038 and power with p-value=0.014) effect on reporting incident safety patient, individual characteristics (motivation with p-value = 0.557) have no impact on writing incident safety patient And factor organization (organizational culture with p-value =0.535) has no effect to reporting incident patient safety and most influence reporting incident patient safety in Royal Prima General Hospital Medan is a knowledge variable (OR=155.6). They are recommended for a hospital for-develop system information integration related to writing incident patient safety and officer health to increase the perception of officer health through improvement, knowledge, and experience of officer health.

Corporate digital transformation and safety production performance: empirical evidence from A-share listed companies

ABSTRACT This paper examines the influence of enterprise digital transformation on safety production performance. Our results indicate that digital transformation significantly improves the safety performance of China’s listed enterprises. Furthermore, a series of cross-sectional analyses confirm that the effect of digital transformation on safety production performance is more prominent not only in regions with higher levels of marketisation and stronger enforcement of safety production systems but also in markets with higher competition and stronger supervision. Moreover, the proposed effect is also more significant in corporations with higher capital intensity and lower financing constraints. The mechanism tests reveal that digital transformation improves the quality of internal control and optimises corporate innovation, thereby improving the safety production performance. Our findings highlight the impact of digital technology application on enterprise production safety performance, serving as a valuable reference for promoting the development and implementation of digital technologies in the field of production safety.

SafeguardNet: Enhancing Corporate Safety via Tailored Deep Transfer Learning for Threat Recognition

SafeguardNet: Enhancing Corporate Safety via Tailored Deep Transfer Learning for Threat Recognition

Maden İşletmelerinde Kurumsal İtibar Güvenlik İklimini Etkiler mi? Algılanan Etik İklimin Aracı Rolü

The purpose of the research is to determine the effect of corporate reputation on safety climate, and the mediating role of perceived ethical climate in this relationship. In this context, a field study was conducted on the employees of a subsurface coal mine operating in the Ermenek District of Karaman Province. A total of 163 questionnaires were collected by using the questionnaire technique and convenience sampling method. The collected data were analyzed with the SPSS 23.0 analysis program. Consequently, the regression test revealed that corporate reputation perceived by employees positively affects safety climate and perceived ethical climate, while perceived ethical climate positively affects safety climate. In addition, hierarchical regression analysis and the Sobel test revealed that perceived ethical climate has a significant partial mediation effect between perceived corporate reputation and safety climate. Finally, the conclusions were handled within the scope of theoretical and practical contributions and some suggestions were made for future researchers and the sector.

The influence of work safety information disclosure on performance of listed companies in high-risk industries: Evidence from Shenzhen stock Exchange

The disclosure of work safety information of listed companies in high-risk industries is an important aspect of their social responsibility, and it is also an inevitable requirement to meet the right of stakeholders to know, which has a far-reaching impact on the development of enterprises. In order to clarify the impact mechanism of work safety information disclosure on enterprise performance of listed companies in high-risk industries. 222 listed companies in high-risk industries were taken as the research object, and the multiple regression analysis method was used to analyze the relationship between the level of work safety information disclosure of enterprises and their financial performance, safety performance and social reputation. The results show that the work safety information disclosure of listed companies in high-risk industries has a positive impact on corporate financial performance, safety performance and social reputation; unabsorbed slack resources have a positive U-shaped regulatory effect on work safety information disclosure and enterprise social reputation; The shareholding ratio of institutional investors has an inverted U-shaped regulatory effect on the positive relationship between work safety information disclosure and enterprise social reputation. This study has enriched the theoretical and practical exploration of research on work safety information disclosure. It can help improve the level of work safety information disclosure and safety management in enterprises, while guiding the sustainable development of occupational health and safety within these organizations.

Does CEO overconfidence affect workplace safety?

We study the impact of CEO overconfidence on workplace safety. We provide robust evidence of a positive relation between CEO overconfidence and workplace injury rates, implying that CEO overconfidence impairs workplace safety. In cross-sectional analysis, we find that the documented effect is amplified among firms with greater concentration of decision rights in headquarters and higher employee turnover, while is mitigated among firms with stronger labor union presence and more effective corporate governance mechanisms. Additional analysis points to increased employee workload and poor corporate safety culture as the mechanisms behind the documented detrimental effect of CEO overconfidence on workplace safety.

Factors associated with myocarditis in patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

e14674 Background: Myocarditis is an uncommon but serious adverse event (AE) of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy. We aimed to identify factors associated with ICI-related myocarditis in cancer patients using pooled data from multiple clinical trials. Methods: Data on 25,965 adults receiving at least one dose of an ICI (nivolumab [NIVO] or ipilimumab [IPI])-containing regimen were extracted from corporate safety and clinical trial databases. Patients missing documentation of AEs, indication, or trial ID were excluded. Myocarditis events were identified using MedDRA preferred terms. A nested case-control study design with controls who had no myocarditis selected at random from the risk sets and matched 1:5 on ICI regimen, duration of exposure to ICI regimen, and trial ID was used. Descriptive statistics were used to derive time to onset of myocarditis and to investigate patterns of myositis and rhabdomyolysis relative to myocarditis. A multivariable conditional logistic regression model was used to identify factors associated with myocarditis. Covariates included age, sex, race/ethnicity, medical history (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, sleep apnea), smoking, cancer type, medication use (within the prior 6 months), and co-occurrences of other AEs (pneumonitis, colitis, and hepatitis). Results: Myocarditis was documented in 122/24,106 (0.5%) patients meeting study eligibility criteria. A total of 732 patients (122 cases and 610 matched controls) from 46 trials were included in the analyses. Mean (SD) age was 63 (12) years; 65% of patients were male, 76% Caucasian, and 52% had a history of cardiovascular disease. NIVO + IPI was the most commonly used regimen (36%), followed by NIVO + relatlimab (25%) and NIVO + chemotherapy (14%). Median (Q1-Q3) time to onset of myocarditis was 38 (26-77) days from first dose of ICI. Myositis was reported in 18/122 (15%) cases and in 2/610 (0.3%) controls (p<0.001). Among the 18 cases, a majority (83%) developed myositis within 3 days before the onset of myocarditis. Rhabdomyolysis was reported in 4/122 (3%) cases, all within a month before myocarditis, and in none of the controls (p=0.001). In adjusted analyses, older age (odds ratio 1.38 per 10-year increase, 95% CI 1.12-1.70) and hepatitis (5.69, 2.24-14.44) were significantly associated with the development of myocarditis. Conclusions: In this large cohort of ICI-treated cancer patients, myocarditis had an early onset and was associated with older age and co-occurrences of hepatitis. Due to a low incidence among controls, rhabdomyolysis and myositis could not be included as covariates in adjusted analyses; however bivariate results showed strong associations between myocarditis and rhabdomyolysis or myositis. These findings suggest that co-occurrences of myositis, rhabdomyolysis, or hepatitis are associated with myocarditis and may originate from a more generalized ICI myopathy.

Public service announcements: A literature review and way forward

AbstractThis paper presents a literature review of public service announcements (PSAs). Using the SPAR‐4‐SLR protocol, we uncover 119 articles on PSAs in the domains of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the environment, health, finance, safety, and security. The literature review reveals that PSA makers may elicit empathy during their appeal and also juxtapose PSAs with narratives. Further, they may consider using fear, humour, and nurturance appeals. We cull the key takeaways from each domain and identify commonalities and differences across the domains. In addition, we offer strategies to make PSAs effective. PSA makers may run more PSAs, use targeted appeals, and use fewer celebrity appeals. The paper also identifies gaps in the literature and outlines future research directions.

The Moderating Effects of Social Responsibility Climate and Safety Climate in Keeping Healthcare Workers' Engagement during COVID-19.

The outbreak of COVID-19 brings an overload of physical and mental demands to healthcare professionals. Keeping healthcare professionals sustainable, engaged, and performing at their highest levels becomes critical and nonetheless difficult. The objective of this research is to link the literature on organizational climates, corporate social responsibility, safety science, and work engagement, and propose a research framework that investigates the factors influencing healthcare professionals' engagement during COVID-19. We propose that when healthcare workers' career callings are triggered by COVID-19, it influences their perceptions of the work's meaningfulness, which ultimately enhances their work engagement. We argue that creating a social responsibility climate and a safety climate inside the hospital facilitates the process of turning healthcare workers' perceived work meaningfulness into work engagement. We collected data from 112 healthcare professionals, including nurses, doctors, and executive staff, from 16 wards in a public hospital in China to test our hypotheses. Hierarchical linear regression analysis provided empirical support for our research model. We find that healthcare professionals' career callings during COVID-19 enhanced their perceived work meaningfulness, which results in increased work engagement. Moreover, a social responsibility climate and a safety climate strengthens the link between work meaningfulness and work engagement among participants. Creating a social responsibility climate and a safety climate in the workplace are effective management approaches to realize healthcare workers' feelings of work meaningfulness and turn them into work engagement.

Imprint of Occupational Health and Safety Conditions on Employee Commitment: A Case Study of Toyota Tsusho Corporation

Purpose: World Health Organization (WHO) potentiates the goal of occupational health and safety as protecting employees' mental, bodily, and social health while they are working. Using Toyota Tsusho Corporation as a case study, this study aimed at examining the impact of occupational health and safety measures on employee commitment. 
 Methodology: The study utilized a quantitative analysis of published data from Toyota Corporation health and safety initiatives report. Descriptive statistics was employed for the data analysis, and the independent sample test was performed to assess the study's hypothesis.
 Findings: This study found that management initiative and commitment to health and safety had a positive influence on employee commitment. It was also revealed that health and safety measures had an association with employee commitment and presenteeism level.
 Recommendations: The study recommend businesses to adopt healthy lifestyles and encourage employee motivation to lower presenteeism in both high-risk and low-risk environments. Policies on employee safety and provision of appropriate equipment that reduce the frequency of accidents, illnesses, and injuries should be the priority of management.

Protecting Foreign Companies, the Energy Charter Treaty, International Trade Justice, and Bangladesh

The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which became legally effective in 1998, is an energy sector-specific legally-binding multilateral agreement that protects and safeguards foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises (MNEs). Bangladesh, an energy-importing, and FDIattracting-state has completed almost all the formalities to soon become a member of the ECT and declared that it is ready to embrace the legal obligations of the treaty. Its declaration of joining the ECT was motivated by an expectation that doing so would benefit the country. The positive expectation from the ECT requires a reality check, taking into account the context of the energy sector of Bangladesh. This article checks this reality based on a particular theoretical perspective that links justice with international trade and investment. It is argued here that the inherent structural features of the ECT confirm that it places corporate profit and safety over people and ecology, and thus Bangladesh must not join it.

Identification of authorship and prevention of fraudulent transactions/cybercrime using efficient high performance machine learning techniques

Cyber safety is the best skill required among a group of employees in organisations. Many offenders hide behind anonymous masking, including dishonest purchases, brazen plagiarism of the work, breaching corporate safety and stealing private data. To understand and analyse the actual phenomenon encountered with data, requirements of scientific methods, machine learning techniques, processes are to be used. This paper aims to tackle these problems by providing a protection layer for users, where data is being gathered from cyber security sources, analytical complement with latest data-driven patterns provides effective security solutions. We then discuss machine learning, deep learning powered models for the detection of insider threats and identifying authorship identification of anonymised articles. The individual modules are trained on authorship attribution, mouse monitoring, keyboard monitoring and command tracing and reached promising results with good accuracies in the range of 65%-85% on average.

Risk analysis of agricultural input management and its drivers and obstacles: a case study of vegetable production enterprises in Beijing

PurposeThe quantitative understanding of the safe input management practices of vegetable producers is essential for both food safety and environmental protection. The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of safe production in vegetable enterprises and examine the key risk factors affecting the safe production of vegetables from the perspective of agricultural inputs.Design/methodology/approachBased on the theory of risk analysis, a framework of safe vegetable production risk analysis is constructed from the perspective of production input behaviour. Based on 202 valid questionnaires in Beijing, China, this paper identifies direct risks in input management through statistical descriptive analysis; determines weights through an expert elicitation process and calculates weighted safety values accordingly; and finally uses a categorical regression model to explore the indirect risks affecting corporate safety production.FindingsThe results show that direct risk factors include seed treatment risk, pesticide and fertilizer use criteria risk, pesticide and fertilizer operation risk, and pesticide application object risk. The production safety value of Beijing's enterprises is found to be high in the north and south regions, and low in the central region. Finally, some indirect risk factors, namely the cognition of agricultural product safety laws, the cognition of pesticide safety intervals, the cognition of prohibited pesticides and the possession of brands, are found to have positive and significant impacts on the safe production behaviour of enterprises.Originality/valueThese findings provide entry points for interventions aimed at reducing dependence on pesticides and fertilizers and promoting input management for safe vegetable production in enterprises, thus avoiding vegetable safety incidents due to improper practices in the production chain.

The Effectiveness of Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) Application in the R.O.K. Navy and Improvement Plan

The Republic of Korea Navy is applying OHSMS (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) to 3 type of units(repair, engineer, ammunition) for workplace safety. Several studies have argued that implementing OHSMS in the workplace is problematic and that measures are needed to improve its effectiveness. Moreover, since OHSMS focuses on corporate safety, it should be adequately reviewed when applied to the military, but studies have not been conducted yet. This study aims to confirm the effectiveness of the Navy's OHSMS and to identify improvement measures. We surveyed 599 members of the units to determine the impact of OHSMS on unit safety conditions (systems, management, activities). For engineer and ammunition units, the safety conditions were compared according to whether they were OHSMS certified. In the repair units without the OHSMS non-certified comparator, the safety conditions according to the OHSMS application period were compared. To confirm the improvement plan of OHSMS, we surveyed 29 Naval OHSMS experts and analyzed IPA (Importance-performance Analysis) and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). There was no statistical difference in the level of safety conditions according to whether OHSMS was applied and the operating period, so the effectiveness of OHSMS could not be confirmed. The Navy's OHSMS needed gradual improvement due to its low overall performance. In particular, there was an urgent need for improvement in 1.organizational roles, responsibilities, 2.consultation and participation of members, 3.support, and 4.capabilities. Among them, consultation and participation of members was rated the most as a result of importance weight analysis through AHP. In this study, the effectiveness of the Navy's OHSMS has not been confirmed, and consultation and participation of members was a vital improvement factor. This can be used as basic data for the practical application of OHSMS in the Navy in the future. Keywords: OHSMS, Military Health and safety, Navy, IPA, AHP

Problems and Countermeasures of Coal Mine Engineering Management under the Background of Big Data and IoT

In the context of the era of big data and the Internet of Things, there are certain engineering management problems in the development of my country’s coal mine enterprise engineering management. Based on the research content of domestic coal enterprises in the construction and engineering management of production and engineering, comprehensive research and analysis of problems at different stages of different stages, optimizing the improvement of coal mine engineering management levels, were done. In the process of various factors that affect the safety of coal mine safety production and the high-quality development of enterprises, this article focuses on the problems and hidden dangers affecting the management of coal mine engineering management and focuses on improving measures to improve the safety of coal mines and improve corporate safety benefits. After conducting research, an evaluation and analysis model, a comprehensive research on the various factors that affect the safety of coal mine, conducted a comprehensive research and conducted research on factors and measures affecting engineering management. A comprehensive data analysis model and factor management model based on coal mine engineering management are constructed. In the context of big data and the Internet of Things, targeted evaluation and analysis based on different security risks and engineering management issues were proposed with feasible opinions and measures.