6. Prevention of accidents and promotion of safety in small enterprises

Organizers:
Nijs Jan Duijm, DTU Management, Technical University of Denmark: nidu@man.dtu.dk

Pete Kines, Accident and Safety Research, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark: pki@nrcwe.dk


Systematic accident prevention and safety promotion are particularly challenging for small enterprises. Serious accidents occur relatively rarely in small enterprises, thereby reducing the motivation to spend resources on accident prevention. Health and safety promotion is primarily dealt in a reactive and informal manner, as opposed to a proactive and systematic approach.

The challenge of preventing accidents and promoting safety in small enterprises is to raise the awareness of risks and commitment to safety, as small enterprises become vulnerable when accidents do occur. Methods for raising risk awareness need to be adapted to the working culture and safety maturity in small enterprises – with tools being easy and straightforward to implement.

This workshop will provide a platform for discussion of methods, approaches and experiences in this field, including how occupational risk assessment methods can be addressed towards small enterprises.

Final order of presentations

Session WS6.1, Wednesday 21 October, time: 15.15-16.45, location: B-10:

Chair: Nijs Jan Duijm (with Pete Kines)

Martin, Christophe & Guarnieri, Franck, Ecole des Mines de Paris-Paris Tech, France:
'An experimental preventive action for SMEs: A Trojan horse for a cross-learning scheme'

Jørgensen, Kirsten & Duijm, Nijs J., Technical University of Denmark & Troen, Hanne, Kemirisk, Denmark:
'How to prevent something, we don’t know will happen? Risk evaluation and calculation for accidents in SMEs'

Hendriksen, Kåre, Technical University of Denmark: 
'OH&S certification as a tool for managing the effort in small enterprises'



Session WS6.2, Wednesday 21 October, time: 17.15-18.45, location: B-10:

Chair: Nijs Jan Duijm (with Pete Kines)

Smith, Peter, Institute For Work & Health, Canada:
'Estimating the risk of work injury among employees of small workplaces in Ontario, Canada'


Knudsen, Fabienne, University of Southern Denmark:  

'Fishermen’s underestimation of risk'


Dugué, Bernard & Petit, Johann, Université de Bordeaux, France:
'Paradoxes of the risks assessment in the branch of artisanal bakery'
See PowerPoint presentation


Castellucci, Ignacio & Miguel, A. Sergio & Arezes, Pedro, University of Minho, Portugal & Acevedo, Miguel, Universidad Mayor, Chile:
'Ergonomics and work-related musculoskeletal disorders in small and medium-sized enterprises' (presenter possibly absent)