Occupational health and safety management and operations management: shall the twain never meet?

Peter Hasle, Christian Uhrenholdt Madsen, David Hansen, Malek Miguel Maalouf

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Abstract

Occupational health and safety (OHS) management has expanded in companies, and research is in-dicating benefits for both workers’ health and safety and for business performance. However, OHS management tend to end in a sidecar to the operations management (OM). Our analysis indicate that the conflict between the two fields may be explained by conflicts between the dominant logics – risk for OHS management and optimisation for OM. New broader understandings of need for worker well-being and commitment for both OHS and OM open for a closer integration of the two fields.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2019
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event6th International EUROMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum: Engagement and co-creation of knowledge - Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Gothenburg, Sweden
Duration: 18 Mar 201919 Mar 2019
Conference number: 6
https://www.chalmers.se/en/conference/euromaforum2019/Pages/default.aspx

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Conference6th International EUROMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum
Number6
LocationChalmers Tekniska Högskola
Country/TerritorySweden
CityGothenburg
Period18/03/201919/03/2019
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