Exploring the organisational preconditions for occupational accidents in food industry: A qualitative approach |
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| Institution: | 1. Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, MA, USA;2. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;3. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;1. Department of Occupational Hygiene, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;2. Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;3. Department of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;4. Department of Health Management, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;5. Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;1. Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Preservation, Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;2. Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;1. Safety and Risk Engineering Group (SREG), Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John''s, NL, Canada A1B 3X5;2. Safety and Security Science Group (S3G), Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands;3. Department of Process Engineering & Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3J 2X4 |
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| Abstract: | The continuing high frequency of occupational accidents in the Swedish food industry calls for new approaches to better understand the underlying factors. In the present study, 54 accidents involving hand injuries were investigated from the operators’ perspective, to explore the organisational preconditions. In-depth interviews were conducted with operators and their supervisors, and 24 of these interviews were analysed using the grounded theory method. The core category ‘safety as a process’ was identified encompassing the perception of the process of the accident at operative level and organisational preconditions that increased the risk of occupational accidents. These preconditions were open factors: deficiencies in technical/physical environment and work organisation; and concealed factors: insufficient communication and learning, a high level of responsibility in combination with low control, conflicting goals and a gap between procedures and practice. These preconditions lead to risk acceptance, resignation towards improved safety and normalisation of risk. Through the analysis a five-step hypothesis was empirically generated. |
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