Strategic management of new technologies and prevention of industrial accidents: Theoretical framework and empirical analyses
✍ Scribed by Jean-Bernard Carrière; Jacqueline Dionne-Proulx; Yves Beauchamp
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1090-8471
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✦ Synopsis
The use of new technology does not systematically eliminate industrial hazards. However, these can be limited if new equipment is adopted and implemented within the context of a strategic management of prevention-an approach specifically applied within the framework of this study toward the adoption and implementation of new technology. This approach can be defined as the integration of the following four dimensions: technological capabilities and resources, organizational capabilities, decision-making processes, and both perceived and registered strategic benefits. This article describes the choices and conditions under which the introduction of new technologies can help in the prevention of occupational injuries. It delimits grounds for testing the following two hypotheses: (1) that companies who are effective in terms of occupational health and safety (OHS) outperform economically those that are not; and (2) that OSH-effective companies adopt more new technologies than other companies. Data were provided by a sample of 140 businesses in the sector of metal products manufacturing.