Effective implementation of Occupational Safety and Health interventions

Making workplaces safer and healthier is an urgent and topical issue, which requires appropriate interventions to address worrying global occurrence of occupational accidents and diseases.
A study published in the Safety and Health at Work journal, whose authors include Professor Guido Micheli and the researcher Gaia Vitrano from the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, presents a specific approach to implement Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) interventions, ensuring short-term effectiveness and long-term sustainability, through extensive planning and continuous monitoring and evaluation actions, which are fundamental to understand the actual result of the implementation of the intervention and therefore improve, ensuring long term success.

This approach has found application in the CONDIVIDO initiative, promoted and funded by INAIL (the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work), in collaboration with the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, which enabled the introduction in Italy of a near-miss management system. Emphasizing the importance of stakeholder involvement, the CONDIVIDO project has showed that collaborative design, continuous evaluation and flexibility are essential for the sustainability and effectiveness of an Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) intervention. The entire activity is part of the HumanTech project of the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, recognized by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) among the "Departments of Excellence 2023-27" (L. 232/2016).