IPESHE: an Index for Quantifying the Performance for Safety and Health in a Workplace

Abstract

Considering as basis the structure of a new model for evaluating performances in health and safety on workplace, the measures are introduced to allow the quantification of the goodness of the system, in order to verify how much the implemented system matches with the workers safeguard as requested by the in force law. Quantification consists in the inclusion of two different types of tools: check-lists and indicators. These tools are based on the tree structure of the model that is constituted by 6 key-elements, each of them formed by several themes (up to an amount of 27 themes). The quantification of check-lists and indicators allows to assess the importance of themes and key-elements and to lay the foundation of a complete score, that means the index of global performance of the examined company is obtained. In conclusion, once the quantification is obtained, or in other words, once the performance of company management system is estimated, it will be possible to identify, if it is the case, the priority of interventions for improvements, so that the management process becomes more effective and efficient.