Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant
risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed …

From medicine to education, evidence-based approaches aim to evaluate and apply
scientific evidence to a problem in order to arrive at the best possible solution. Thus, using …

Effective management of occupational health and safety (OHS) continues to pose a
challenge to many organisations. While significant advancement has occurred in knowledge …

In the late 1990s, the Health and Safety Commission, as the lead authority in the UK
responsible for Health and Safety at Work, conducted an extensive consultation exercise to …

Abstract Background The UK Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Management Standards
(MS) approach has been developed to help organizations manage potential sources of work …

Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing literature on organizational-level
interventions for work-related stress, and associated calls for such interventions to be …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between gossip and
emotion in health‐care organizations. It draws on findings from empirical research exploring …

Purpose–Complex collaborative interventions are increasingly applied for stress
management but outcomes are inconsistent.“Collaboration” is most highly developed in …

The aim of this paper is to identify what constituted barriers to progress in the
implementation of the Management Standards for preventing and reducing work-related …

We explore the notion of 'match'. In the context of job design, this is congruence or
correspondence between two or more job characteristics (eg cognitive demands and …