Health, Safety, Environment: the fourth cycle of the Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Lab opened at Sant'Anna School to ideal, develop, evaluate innovative approaches and tools by linking academia and businesss
A video game, to be used as an innovative and interactive learning tool, will also be implemented in collaboration with the participating enterprises to supplement skill acquisition activities
The fourth cycle of the HSE (Health, Safety & Environment or Health, Safety, Environment) Laboratory, coordinated by Francesco Testa e Niccolò Todaro, Full Professor and Assistant Profesor in Economics and Business Management, respectively, of the SuM (Sustainability Management) Laboratory of the Institute of Management of the Sant'Anna School, has opened.
The laboratory has several objectives, including the design, the development and the evaluation of innovative approaches and tools to improve management and organizational capabilities in the HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) field, and also aims to provide support to companies in identifying and monitoring the most significant changes at the organizational level, to foster the development of efficient management tools capable of having positive impacts on HSE performance. Finally, the HSE Lab provides a permanent forum for exchanging experiences and sharing best practices, bringing together the worlds of academia and business.
Many companies are those participating in the new cycle of the HSE Laboratory:A2A, Aeroporti di Roma, Autostrade per l'Italia, Eni, Ferrovie dello Stato, Inditex, Italferr, Leonardo, Mercitalia Logistics, Poste Italiane, RFI, SNAM, Terna, TIM, Trenitalia, Webuild.
The fourth cycle aims to consolidate the results obtained in previous editions and will be based on three thematic lines.
The first consists of updating the tools for measuring HSE culture through the identification of strengths and weaknesses, the integration of new dimensions of HSE culture and the collection of initiatives already adopted by companies.
The second in measuring and strengthening HSE culture by connecting suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors to extend it across organizational boundaries and support enterprises in raising supply chain awareness.
The third in developing managerial leadership for strengthening HSE culture, i.e., the behavioral styles adopted by managers and supervisors to influence workers' HSE behaviors. With reference to this theme, the HSE Lab aims to design, in collaboration with participating companies, an innovative and interactive learning tool that will result in the development of a video game. The video game will be based on the concepts and techniques of "game-based learning" and will complement the skill acquisition activities already adopted by enterprises in the HSE field. In particular, the tool will strengthen the HSE leadership skills of staff and the resulting culture.
