Enhancing proactive safety management in schools using the change workshop method

This study aims to raise awareness of OSH challenges, and to support the development of proactive safety management practices. We approach OSH management from two perspectives, namely the risk-based and resilience perspectives, and address the importance of both in the complex work environments that schools have become. The empirical case of this study is an Activity Theory-based Change Workshop (CW) process in an education department in a Finnish city organisation. We show how the CW process enhanced collective learning, how a collective view of changing OSH challenges developed during the CW process, and how participants collectively developed proactive tools and practices for OSH management.
Source: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research