What kind of prevention cultures are prevailing? Typical dialogues on occupational safety and health in German companies | Study

ABSTRACT - Almost every second German enterprise lacks a documented risk assessment. Even less than 20% of all companies live the process of continuously improving health and safety performance. Nevertheless there is a fundamental attention in economy for health and safety issues. Which ways are taken by enterprises instead of or besides legally prescribed ones to deal with occupational health and safety issues will be discussed. It will be revealed which basic assumptions and shared orientations are underlying the correlated types of prevention culture. On the basis of 50 qualitative interviews with managers, OSH professionals and works councils possibilities to identify these prevention types are described as well as target-group-specific approaches to reach and encourage enterprises belonging to different types of prevention culture to intensify their efforts in working on health and safety.

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