ABSTRACT
According to this considerations, two aspects have been focused in the present paper: the integration of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) with major accident hazard (Seveso) procedures and the potential of web based solution for supporting the
1 INTRODUCTION
Beneficial effects of Safety Management System (SMS) for reducing occupational accident and diseases are widely recognized. The SMS implementation defines in a better way roles and procedures with short term benefits, whilst the continuous improvement process should bring long term benefits. Furthermore it is mandatory for controlling major accident hazard, according to the Directive Seveso II 96/82/CE, as well as the new replacing Directive Seveso III 2012/18/UE. These benefits are confirmed for many industries by empirical studies, including Bottani et al. (2009). SMS has been designed mainly following the requirements and needs coming from major companies, maintaining the compliance with the legislation in force; SMS should also be a powerful system for Small Sized Enterprises (SMEs), its adoption as is may be difficult but with further efforts it can be suitable. The weaknesses of SMS for SMEs have been discussed by many authors in recent years. Reiman and Rollenhagen (2011) say that SMS tends to be too static, whilst in SMEs has to be more dynamic. Kristensen (2011) observes that, under the new economy, operators are urgently needed to deal with constantly changing and novel competitive situations, while SMS activities (e.g. audits) may stick to bureaucratically ordained tasks that are repetitive and easily ignored. According to Grote (2012) there are two basic approaches to managing uncertainty in organizations: (1) minimizing
actual application of the procedures at the shop floor, involving all workers in safety improvement. The target of this research is the Italian galvanic industry, but the current solution has been implemented by adopting a general model which is also suitable for other specific small sized companies.
