Employee participation and cleaner technology: learning processes in environmental teams |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 13, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark;2. Department of Technology and Social Sciences, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark;1. Department of Surgery/Urology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;2. McMaster Pediatric Surgery Research Collaborative, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;3. Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;4. Division of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;1. Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF), TU Berlin, Pascalstraße 8-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany;2. Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK), Pascalstraße 8-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany;1. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, 989-111 Daedeok-daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34057, South Korea;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, South Korea;3. School of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa;1. Dep. of Physics, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria;2. Dep. of Physical Sciences, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria;1. Division of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;2. Section of Paediatric Urology, Urology Unit, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy;3. Department of Surgery/Urology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;4. Health Sciences Library, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;5. McMaster Pediatric Surgery Research Collaborative, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;6. Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;7. University of Toronto, Division of Urology, The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Surgery, 555 University Avenue, M5G 1X8, Toronto, Canada;1. Artechra, Hemel Hempstead, UK;2. School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, London E16 2QN, UK |
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| Abstract: | The approach to pollution prevention in Danish industries in the late-1980s and in the beginning of the 1990s met criticism, because the cleaner technology projects focused too narrowly on technical solutions implemented by experts. The objective of the project “Employee Participation in the Implementation of Cleaner Technology” was to develop a more active role for employees in the environmental activities of companies. Based on practical experiments in five Danish firms within different industrial sectors, the project concluded that employee participation can have a strong effect on changing working routines, affecting behaviour and increasing environmental consciousness. The project found that the firms' employees had a comprehensive understanding of environmental problems and solutions, including health and safety aspects. Furthermore, the employees in the environmental teams were able to improve the firms' environmental activities (e.g. setting up environmental policies, targets and action plans, implementing new procedures and technologies). |
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