The Effect of Integrated Management System Establishment on the Safety Performance Indices: A Case Study in a  Manufacturing Industry

KHALIL  TAHERZADEH CHENANI; REZA  JAFARI NODOUSHAN; MOHAMMAD ALI  GHOVEH NODOUSHAN; FAHIMEH  BOGHRI; FARZAN  MADADIZADEH

doi:10.18502/ijoh.v13i4.8423

KHALIL TAHERZADEH CHENANI Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Occupational Health Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
REZA JAFARI NODOUSHAN Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Occupational Health Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
MOHAMMAD ALI GHOVEH NODOUSHAN Department of Health, safety and Environmental Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical sciences, Yazd, Iran
FAHIMEH BOGHRI Department of Health and Environmental Management (HSE), School of Public Health, Occupational Health Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
FARZAN MADADIZADEH Research Center of Prevention and Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/ijoh.v13i4.8423

Keywords: Integrated Management System, Safety Performance Indices, Occupational Accident, Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

Safety programs are among the effective factors that may have a key role in upgrading workforce productivity and promotion of qualitative and quantitative indicators of production. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of integrated management systems (IMS) establishment on safety performance improvement. This study was a retrospective study conducted at the Mazrouf Glass factory in Yazd, Iran. To investigate the effect of IMS establishment on the safety performance during the studied years, indices of injury frequency rate (IFR), injury severity rate (ISR), frequency-severity index (FSI), and Safety T. Score (S.T.S) were used. The paired-samples t-test was used to compare safety indices before and after the establishment of the IMS. The results showed that the establishment of IMS had a meaningful effect on the reduction of the IFR and ISR. Also, no meaningful effect was found between IMS establishment and FSI and S.T.S. IMS establishment could reduce the IFR and ISR, which in turn may promote productivity indicators. Eventually, it could be concluded that IMS establishment can be used as an effective proceeding to improve workplace safety indices.