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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS VOL 3, NO 2
• Their approaches are fundamentally based on retrospective studies(BIGOS,
SPENGLER et al. 1986; Mantel and Haenszel 2004).
Using a total management tool to evaluate the safety performance of the organization , they
can discriminate the gap between their safety program and desirable condition so they will
determine improvement opportunities their performance and move toward constant
improvement and investment unity . These are possible by applying a total management
tool to evaluate the safety performance.
Occupational safety has been one of the main approaches of eminent organizations and
million hours of safe job prove this claim(Chimezie 1988). Surely achieving this important
affair depends on the performance and appliance a total performance evaluation
management to get promotion opportunities of occupational safety(Goetzel, Guindon et al.
2001) (Rahimi 1995; Tam, Tong et al. 2002; Mearns, Whitaker et al. 2003).
At present most of the organisations plan to evaluate their performance on the basis of
reactive indicators but constantly we see that even lack of events cannot be the reason of
safety in an organization not evaluating the safety performance , organizations never will
be able to appoint their situation to achieve the outlook and evaluation of achievement of
higher goals is one of the procedures of performing improvement affairs of
organizations(Mohamed 2003; Rivard, Rosen et al. 2006; Nordine, Knox et al. 2007).
Research objectives
The general objective of this paper is using literature review about safety performance evaluation
management of companies. The subs objectives are:
1- To design holistic framework for total safety performance evaluation management
according literature review.
2- To express suitable hypothesis.
3- To determine dependent, independent, and control variables.
Literature review
In this research a management approach to evaluate a total safety performance
(Odenheimer, Beaudet et al. 1994) will be considered in addition to a key performance
indicator(Thomas Ng, Pong Cheng et al. 2005). Thus the organization will be able to perform
a good and suitable plan of self-assessment (Davis, Mazmanian et al. 2006) and find
improvement opportunities based on its results.
At present there are different approaches about safety performance evaluation of
organizations divided to two groups :
a) Key performance indicator (KPI)
b) Total safety performance evaluation (TSPE)
In the first group organisations evaluate their performance on the basis of retrospective
and postponed indicators aroused form the results of the events . Among these indicators
we can point to Accident Severity Rate (Griffiths 1985), which is the ratio of waste days
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