Managing for Health, Safety and Environment: new Sant’Anna School “HSE Lab” officially opened to strengthen academic-business partnerships
Strengthening partnerships with business is one of the recommendations universities can follow to remain globally competitive and overcome economic pressure. At the new HSE “Health, Safety & Environment” Lab of Sant’Anna School Institute of Management, researchers are committed to solving Italy’s most challenging problems through innovation management and strategic business development. In recent years, academic institutions and private industry have been collaborating for health and safety management in business and workplace. Collaborative efforts included university institutes as well as private companies focusing on innovative, integrated management systems approach to worker safety and health together with policies, procedures, product service quality and environmental impacts.
In committed organizations, safety and health performance indicators are identified and measured, and results communicated in annual reports. Corporate management is held accountable and responsible for the performance of the safety and health process. “To exemplify our commitment to worker safety and health, said the HSE Lab coordinators Marco Frey, Fabio Iraldo, and Francesco Testa, we provide a range of tools on matters of atmospheric research, science and technology, and environmental research”.
The HSE Lab has a list of four technical workshops for 2018. The discussions will focus on good governance and efficient management, environmental risk assessment and safety in the workplace, social network analysis and mapping. For many businesses, a series of practical tasks that protect workers from harm is required. The HSE Lab researchers will carry out the business’s performance and risk assessment across every company participating in the research activity.
Companies involved in the survey include: A2A, Enel, Eni, Saras, Terna, Tim, Vodafone, Autostrade per l’Italia, Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and Poligrafico. The first workshop focused on the resilience analysis, adaptive resource management, and adaptive governance, the characterization of performance against a base set of functional practices, and practices for increasing levels of capability. The Resilience Management Model provides an organization a means by which to measure its ability to control operational resilience and to consistently and predictably determine how it will perform under times of stress, disruption, and changing risk environments.
