IMPROVING THE OSH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT ENGINEERING ENTERPRISES

Cost and benefits of implementing an occupational safety and health management system (OSH MS) in enterprises in Poland.

This article presents a method of assessing the economic outcome of implementing an occupational safety and health management system (OSH MS). Developed at the Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute (Poland), this method focuses on identifying the economic expenses comprising bookkeeping and alternative cost incurred to implement and improve an OSH MS. The method ...

Healthy working lives in healthy businesses: new OSH strategy for small enterprises?

Occupational safety and health (OSH) is an area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. Successful and productive companies around the world look after the safety and health of their workers and follow certain principles of good practice for the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases. Massey University of New Zealand hosted in...

Management Practices and Osh Implementation in Smes in Malaysia

Maturity Model for Improving Virtual Engineering in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

This paper introduces the VPS-Benchmark – a maturity model for performance evaluation and improvement in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a special focus on virtual engineering. By giving a brief overview on existing approaches for performance evaluation and improvement we point out the demand for a new maturity approach specialized on the requirements of SMEs. The new maturity mo...

Knowledge management for enterprises

Although knowledge is one of the most valuable resource of enterprises and an important production and competition factor, this intellectual potential is often used (or maintained) only inadequate by the enterprises. Therefore, in a globalised and growing market the optimal usage of existing knowledge represents a key factor for enterprises of the future. Here, knowledge management systems shou...