Abstract
Companies need to control several different sectors of
corporate safety and security including, for example,
occupational health and safety, environmental safety,
premises security, crime prevention, rescue operations
and emergency planning, information security, and
personnel security. Corporate safety and security
management is connected tightly into corporate-wide risk
management. Presently risk management is becoming more
and more comprehensive including combined actions of
risks and management of complexity, uncertainty and
ambiguity. Challenges of globalization and the continued
quest for greater returns have made enterprise-wide risk
management more critical issue for companies
and public organizations. New information and
communication technologies, complex supplier network and
globalization have introduced significant new risks. The
new risks and more comprehensive risk management approach
demands more comprehensive corporate safety and security
management. The operating range of safety and security is
quite wide and the responsibilities, activities and
procedures connected with safety and security are often
patchy, diverse, and at times even overlapping. This
paper discusses the need for a connection between these
sectors in safety and security management. The main
purpose is to model connection between risk management
and corporate safety and security management. The model
emphasises co-operation and close interaction inside the
company between safety and security personnel, line and
the top management, and workers. Co-operation with
external safety or security interest groups of the
company is also important.
Translated title of the contribution | Towards more comprehensive corporate safety and security management |
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Original language | Finnish |
Pages (from-to) | 29-53 |
Journal | Hallinnon tutkimus |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
MoE publication type | D1 Article in a trade journal |