Cargando…

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies

With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies had to adapt quickly to survive in the market. During this time, employers played a key role, along with employees involved in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) activities, as they were responsible for implementing the recommendations of the Eur...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Bartnicka, Joanna, Kabiesz, Patrycja, Palka, Dorota, Gajewska, Paulina, Islam, Ejaz Ul, Szymanek, Damian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501894
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179302
_version_ 1783750857718759424
author Bartnicka, Joanna
Kabiesz, Patrycja
Palka, Dorota
Gajewska, Paulina
Islam, Ejaz Ul
Szymanek, Damian
author_facet Bartnicka, Joanna
Kabiesz, Patrycja
Palka, Dorota
Gajewska, Paulina
Islam, Ejaz Ul
Szymanek, Damian
author_sort Bartnicka, Joanna
collection PubMed
description With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies had to adapt quickly to survive in the market. During this time, employers played a key role, along with employees involved in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) activities, as they were responsible for implementing the recommendations of the European Commission. There is no unambiguous definition of OHS in Polish legislation. It is assumed that it is a set of rules defining the manner of performing work, and above all, a method of providing employees with working conditions so that their performance is safe and hygienic. Responsibility for the health and safety in the workplace is imposed on the employer by the legislature. Thus, effective health and safety training is an essential element of the success of any properly operating company. In the literature, no studies have been identified that evaluate the effectiveness of actions during the COVID-19 outbreak. The aim of the article is to present the actions of Polish employers along with their effectiveness assessment related to the protection of employees during the COVID-19 outbreak. The article presents a proposal for conducting remote OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) training using the platform Moodle. The created course was implemented during OHS training conducted in a selected manufacturing company. At its end, an evaluation of the course was carried out, and the collected opinions of training participants allowed the formulation of interesting conclusions, which became the contribution of this paper. The authors pay special attention to three main points of the work. The first is the form of training, which gives the possibility to conduct training at a distance while maintaining its effectiveness. The second important point is the mandatory feedback of the trainees, ensuring the possibility of continuous improvement and quality enhancement of both the program and the form of training. The evaluation was developed on the basis of the extended Kirkpatrick model, which is a completely new approach to OHS training evaluation. The third point emphasized by the authors is the possibility of precise adaptation of the training to other plants and even industries. Therefore, it can be concluded that the course developed by the authors is a very interesting and practical didactic tool with great implementation potential.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8431100
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-84311002021-09-11 Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies Bartnicka, Joanna Kabiesz, Patrycja Palka, Dorota Gajewska, Paulina Islam, Ejaz Ul Szymanek, Damian Int J Environ Res Public Health Review With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies had to adapt quickly to survive in the market. During this time, employers played a key role, along with employees involved in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) activities, as they were responsible for implementing the recommendations of the European Commission. There is no unambiguous definition of OHS in Polish legislation. It is assumed that it is a set of rules defining the manner of performing work, and above all, a method of providing employees with working conditions so that their performance is safe and hygienic. Responsibility for the health and safety in the workplace is imposed on the employer by the legislature. Thus, effective health and safety training is an essential element of the success of any properly operating company. In the literature, no studies have been identified that evaluate the effectiveness of actions during the COVID-19 outbreak. The aim of the article is to present the actions of Polish employers along with their effectiveness assessment related to the protection of employees during the COVID-19 outbreak. The article presents a proposal for conducting remote OHS (Occupational Health and Safety) training using the platform Moodle. The created course was implemented during OHS training conducted in a selected manufacturing company. At its end, an evaluation of the course was carried out, and the collected opinions of training participants allowed the formulation of interesting conclusions, which became the contribution of this paper. The authors pay special attention to three main points of the work. The first is the form of training, which gives the possibility to conduct training at a distance while maintaining its effectiveness. The second important point is the mandatory feedback of the trainees, ensuring the possibility of continuous improvement and quality enhancement of both the program and the form of training. The evaluation was developed on the basis of the extended Kirkpatrick model, which is a completely new approach to OHS training evaluation. The third point emphasized by the authors is the possibility of precise adaptation of the training to other plants and even industries. Therefore, it can be concluded that the course developed by the authors is a very interesting and practical didactic tool with great implementation potential. MDPI 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8431100/ /pubmed/34501894 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179302 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Review
Bartnicka, Joanna
Kabiesz, Patrycja
Palka, Dorota
Gajewska, Paulina
Islam, Ejaz Ul
Szymanek, Damian
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies
title Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies
title_full Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies
title_fullStr Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies
title_short Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Employers and H&S Services in Relation to the COVID-19 System in Polish Manufacturing Companies
title_sort evaluation of the effectiveness of employers and h&s services in relation to the covid-19 system in polish manufacturing companies
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34501894
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179302
work_keys_str_mv AT bartnickajoanna evaluationoftheeffectivenessofemployersandhsservicesinrelationtothecovid19systeminpolishmanufacturingcompanies
AT kabieszpatrycja evaluationoftheeffectivenessofemployersandhsservicesinrelationtothecovid19systeminpolishmanufacturingcompanies
AT palkadorota evaluationoftheeffectivenessofemployersandhsservicesinrelationtothecovid19systeminpolishmanufacturingcompanies
AT gajewskapaulina evaluationoftheeffectivenessofemployersandhsservicesinrelationtothecovid19systeminpolishmanufacturingcompanies
AT islamejazul evaluationoftheeffectivenessofemployersandhsservicesinrelationtothecovid19systeminpolishmanufacturingcompanies
AT szymanekdamian evaluationoftheeffectivenessofemployersandhsservicesinrelationtothecovid19systeminpolishmanufacturingcompanies