title: Quality assessment of occupational health and safety management at the level of business units making up the organizational structure of a coal mine: a case study.
abstract: The audit of the health and safety management system is understood as a form and tool of controlling. The objective of the audit is to define whether the undertaken measures and the obtained results are in conformity with the predicted assumptions or plans, whether the agreed decisions have been implemented and whether they are suitable in view of the accepted health and safety policy. This paper presents the results of an audit examination carried out on the system of health and safety management between 2002 and 2012 on a group of respondents, the employees of two mining departments (G-1 and G-2) of Jan, a coal mine. The audit was carried out using the questionnaire developed by the author based on the MERIT-APBK survey.
authors.affiliation: a Silesian University of Technology , Poland.
authors.forename: Zygmunt
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Korban
mesh_terms: D003032:Coal Mining / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003132:Commerce; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000592:standards*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: audit; health and safety management; questionnaire surveys