- Title
- OHS professionals : Are personal and professional characteristics linked to strategic influence?
- Creator
- Pryor, Pam
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32845
- Identifier
- vital:2937
- Identifier
- ISSN:0815-6409
- Abstract
- Analysis of the data collected from a survey into what OHS professionals do in practice indicated that they are not strategically influential with senior managers and that this lack of influence may be limiting workplace health and safety improvements. This article revisits the survey data to investigate the potential links between the personal (gender) and professional (education and experience) characteristics of OHS professionals, the industry and the size and geographical location of the organisation in which they work, and their involvement in strategic activities. The analysis indicates that the profile of OHS professionals who are strategically influential includes the following: they are male; they have worked in OHS for six to 10 years; and they are employed by large organisations, particularly in the mining and construction industries. The data regarding the role of education were contradictory to expectations and other reports. While this analysis has provided a profile of OHS professionals in Australia, it has added little to our understanding of the interactions and dynamics of factors that might impact on the strategic influence of OHS professionals.
- Publisher
- CCH Australia Ltd
- Relation
- Journal of Health, Safety and Environment Vol. 26, no. 1 (2010), p. 21-23
- Rights
- Copyright CCH Australia Ltd
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1503 Business and Management; Australia; Ohs professionals; Personal characteristics; Strategic influence
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