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Safety and Health at Work 2021 Volume.12 No. 4 p.421 ~ p.423
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Defining a ¡°Safe System of Work¡±
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Caponecchia C.
Wyatt A.
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Abstract
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Providing a ¡°safe system of work¡± is the essence of the general duties that employers have to their employees under workplace health and safety regulations. Despite this, consistent and appropriate definition of what constitutes a safe system of work is almost non-existent. Available definitions tend to confuse a safe system of work with management practices intended to bring about a safe system, or conflate the broad system suggested in general duties clauses with procedures or work methods that are focused on particular hazards or tasks. This article develops a definition of safe systems of work which recognises the broad scope of the concept and includes psychological health and return to work processes. This definition can be used by a range of stakeholders to better communicate the scope of occupational health and safety duties and more consistently assess whether a safe system has been provided both before and after incidents occur.
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KEYWORD
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Psychological health, Safe system of work, System
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