Publication Date: 2023/06/08
Abstract: The study explored the factors influencing compliance to ISO 45001 for health and safety management systems utilizing Amazon as a case study. The study also established Challenges facing compliance to ISO 45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company in the United States; Identified factors promoting compliance of ISO 45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company. A descriptive research design will be used in this study. Positivism is employed to pursue this study. The researcher adopts an inductive approach in an attempt to develop ideal questions in order to collate valid data from workers of Amazon Company in the United State of America; this is necessary as the philosophy associated type is quantitative. The data were collected from 108 staff of Amazon’s company in the United State of America. A descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation, sample frequency, and percentage was used to described the demographic data of the respondents and to answer research questions respectively. The result showed that: i. establishing legislation and regulations for OHS in workplaces; ii. Providing education and capacity-building opportunities for the employee and often providing advisory service; iii. Introducing motivational programs and heightening sensitization; iv. creation of an enabling environment that allows easy interactions between the working equipment, systems and procedures, and the workforce in the organization; v. optimal concentration on the attitudes and values attached to the safety of workers and other crucial influential factors for health and safety enactment; and vi. The availability of provision for safety equipment or workable systems culture, in order to promote a healthy and safe working lifestyle in the organization, is essential to promote compliance of ISO 45001 for health and safety to be effectively implemented were identified as the factors promoting compliance to ISO 45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company in the United States of America. The challenges facing compliance to ISO 45001 for Health and Safety standard in Amazon Company are; i. the cost attached to health and safety management system under the motivational variables, ii. ISO 45001 itself, expensive cost of 45001 Health and Safety implementation as well as certification, iii. risk assessment from the external support of consulting firms. This implies that the problems confronting the compliance of employees to ISO 45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company in United States was as a result of the cost required from staff to pay out of their salaries for the return of the services rendered to them by the Health and Safety management. The expensive nature of the cost attached to adoption of ISO 45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company in United States would either way cause disloyalty from the path of the workers and denial to accept the policy stipulated under ISO 45001 itself. The research objective two (2) was to identify the factors promoting compliance to ISO45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company in the United States of America. The study conclusions on objective two (2) suggested that; i. the establishing legislation and regulations for OHS in workplaces; ii. Educational provision and capacity building opportunity for the employee and often provide advisory service; iii. Introducing motivational programs and heightening sensitization; iv. creation of enabling environment which allows easy interactions between the working equipment, systems and procedures, and the workforce in the organization; optimal concentration on the attitudes and values attached to safety of workers and other crucial influential factors for health and safety enactment; and v. the availability of provision for safe equipments or workable systems culture for the promotion of healthy and safe working lifestyle in the organization as the factors promoting compliance to ISO45001 Health and Safety standards in the Amazon Company in the United States of America
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8017294
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