Article ID: | iaor201524753 |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 1161 |
End Page Number: | 1175 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
Journal: | Production and Operations Management |
Authors: | Pagell Mark, Biehl Markus, Klassen Robert, Johnston David, Veltri Anthony |
Keywords: | management |
This research examines how organizations simultaneously manage their operations and occupational health and safety. Although both safety and operations scholars conduct research in the same operational settings, they have reached different, yet untested, conclusions about the relationship between creating a safe workplace and creating a productive workplace. The results from a series of 10 case studies show that it is possible to create safe and productive workplaces, but that many facilities fail at this task because of problems associated with the culture management creates and the practices management adopts.