Development of New Methodology for Measuring the Implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Management System in Small and Medium Scale Industries

The small and medium scale enterprises(SME) have immense growth in the recent years due to the social and economic development of the country, but the security aspects followed in the SME are very poor, and it becomes highly risky to the worker’s life, so safety aspects in SME requires huge amount of improvement. during this thesis we propose behaviour of small and medium scale industry for safety management. the primary target of the industries has to improve the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, especially for little and medium enterprises (SMEs). Safety investments are uncompetitive if compared to other investments, especially for SMEs, thanks to responsibility attribution management that does not guarantee the exemption of responsibility in the case of unpredictable accidents and to an insufficient incentive policy for enterprises, virtuous in safety investments. For SMEs safety investments are un-profitable also because the individual SME has no real perception of accident risks due both to difficulties in assessing and monitoring the important risk and to the small number of employees. The project has introduced an index (Efficacy Index) to objectively quantify the effective implementation of an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS). The paper shows how the index are often practically applied to a company and what kind of information can be collected and processed to determine the effective implementation of the OHSMS. It helps to scale back the accident rate and incident rate of SMEs, highlighting the security awareness in SMEs from the management level to the employee in order to improve the safety management in SMEs.