Occupational health and safety-ergonomics improvement as a corporate responsibility of a Bali handicraft company: a case study.
The issue of corporate social responsibility is nowadays becoming popular around industrial communities. The support for the issue has initially spread since the adoption in 1998 of the ILO Declaration concerning fundamental principles and rights at work and then followed up by industries in developed countries. A case study was done from February to August 2006 at a handicraft company in Bali in order to find out the core application of the issue at the enterprise level. The study was conducted by observation in the field of the factory and suppliers, taking photos and interviewing management and employees of the company. The results of the study show that the company has already executed the activities that reflect the application of the core principles. The activities included programs which concerned not only the business corporate community but also wider communities. With regard to the business corporate community, the company had improved the conditions related to ergonomics and occupational health and safety. The improvement was done by referring to the external audit. At the national community level, the company had participated in the recovery measures of national disasters by helping small industries revive. It is hoped that this core program is soon copied by other companies considering that it is very beneficial to the communities and companies.
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Udayana, Denpasar, Bali 80232, Indonesia. s_purnawati@yahoo.com
Susy
S
Purnawati
D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D007221:Industry; D019370:Observation / Q000379:methods; D016272:Occupational Health; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012941:Social Responsibility