英文摘要 |
Occupational safety and health professionals are responsible for safety and health management of an organization. Background and practice of these professionals have not been explored in Taiwan. A questionnaire survey is conducted to investigate their practice in occupational safety and health management. Among 600 questionnaires delivered to 15 types of organzations, 169 persons responded and 79% respondents in the with manufacturing industry. Data analyses compared knowledge, attitude and practice between the professionals received training in labor safety and health management from formal college education and professionals received no such formal college training. Enterprises with 500 and above employees were more likely to establish professional competence and team work, they were thus more likely to employ occupational safety and health management professionals graduated from the safety and health related fields. Enterprises with 299 or less employees were more likely to employpersonnel receiving no such education at school. Approximately 57.9% professionals who graduated from the safety and health related department had an employment history of less than 1 year; On the other hand, approximately 59% of the occupational safety and health management professionals who graduated from the non-related fields had an employment history of 5 years or longer. Organizations prefer to recruit occupational safety and health management professionals with formal education in safety and health related fields and wth certifications. Keywords: |