KAMU - An Example of a Process Towards Integration of Productivity and Safety

摘要

KAMU project was part of the Finnish national Productivity-program 1944-1999. The objective of the program was to develop means and tools to help the workplaces increase productivity. KAMU project helped improve working conditions and productivity by employee empowerment. The idea in the KAMU project was to find new ways of improving cooperation among employees, and between employees and management. The model was developed through work place experiments, in which about 30 companies participated. The companies carried out a one-year long improvement process. Most of the participating companies succeeded well and some really excelled. An indication of success was that some companies continued their project over several years. In some companies, the project moved from department to department as they saw the usefulness of the results.