Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage

Noora Nenonen; Sari Tappura; Minna Rantala; Maria Lindholm

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-80288-2_21

Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage

Noora Nenonen, Sari Tappura, Minna Rantala, Maria Lindholm

Industrial Engineering and Management

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Abstract

Hazard identiﬁcation (HI) and risk management (RM) are key procedures in occupational safety and health promotion at workplaces. Previous research has reported difﬁculties in HI and RM at workplaces. To improve the effectiveness of RM, this study charts hazards that are considered difﬁcult to identify or manageat workplaces. Interviews (n = 46) were carried out in four large-scale manufacturing and facility services companies. The interviewees often mentioned psychosocial hazards, hazards due to exceptional circumstances, familiar and obvious hazards, and hazards of the shared workplaces as difﬁcult to identify or manage. The reasons these hazards were difﬁcult to identify or manage varied from lack of knowledge and competence to problems in communication and safety culture. Certain hazards receive less attention than they should because they were considered difﬁcult to deal with. Further studies on the successful measures to manage these risks are needed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 25-29, 2021, USA
Editors	Pedro M. Arezes, Ronald L. Boring
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	178-183
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-80288-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-80287-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80288-2_21
Publication status	Published - 4 Jul 2021
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics - Virtual, United States Duration: 25 Jul 2021 → 29 Jul 2021 Conference number: 12 http://2021.ahfe.org/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Publisher	Springer Nature
Volume	262
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3370

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics
Abbreviated title	AHFE 2021
Country/Territory	United States
Period	25/07/21 → 29/07/21
Internet address	http://2021.ahfe.org/

Keywords

Hazard identiﬁcation
Workplace safety
Risk management
Risk assessment
Occupational safety and health

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

Business, Management and Accounting(all)

UN SDGs

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Nenonen, N., Tappura, S., Rantala, M., & Lindholm, M. (2021). Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage. In P. M. Arezes, & R. L. Boring (Eds.), Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 25-29, 2021, USA (pp. 178-183). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ; Vol. 262). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80288-2_21

Nenonen, Noora ; Tappura, Sari ; Rantala, Minna et al. / Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage. Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 25-29, 2021, USA. editor / Pedro M. Arezes ; Ronald L. Boring. Cham : Springer, 2021. pp. 178-183 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ).

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Nenonen, N , Tappura, S , Rantala, M & Lindholm, M 2021, Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage. in PM Arezes & RL Boring (eds), Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 25-29, 2021, USA. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems , vol. 262, Springer, Cham, pp. 178-183, International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, United States, 25/07/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80288-2_21

Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage. / Nenonen, Noora ; Tappura, Sari ; Rantala, Minna et al.
Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 25-29, 2021, USA. ed. / Pedro M. Arezes; Ronald L. Boring. Cham: Springer, 2021. p. 178-183 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ; Vol. 262).

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Nenonen N , Tappura S , Rantala M , Lindholm M. Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage. In Arezes PM, Boring RL, editors, Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance: Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Safety Management and Human Factors, and Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 25-29, 2021, USA. Cham: Springer. 2021. p. 178-183. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80288-2_21

Workplace Hazards Difﬁcult to Identify and Manage

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