Are safety and operational effectiveness contradictory requirements: The roles of routines and relational coordination

摘要

The research work has tried to examine two potentially competing goals for operating a production system, namely being safe and being operationally effective. It has tried to examine the potentially contradictory priorities, and examine whether operational safe and effective are complementary or contradictory. This has been postulated by proposing that organizational choices regarding routines used in production determine the degree to which trade-offs occur. According to the safety and operations management, a stable system provides long-term effectiveness and safe one. The research work has tried to examine effectiveness and safety from a joint management sSystem perspective. The research design involved a survey and matched archival data collected from manufacturing facilities located in the province of Ontario, Canada. (91 refs.)