Assessing occupational health and safety management quality by means of multi-criteria assessment: A case study

Audit inquiries used as a controlling tool are an important element of the structure of each management system. Such inquiries allow us to determine whether the undertaken actions are consistent with the adopted decisions, whether they have been properly implemented and are efficient. With respect to occupational health and safety management systems (SZBiHP), which is being implemented in the mining industry in Poland since the 1990s, one of the first solutions of that type were audit inquiries based on the MERIT survey (Management Evaluation Regarding Itemized Tendencies). As part of the method developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the WOP_i assessment indexes (so-called partial indexes) are determined separately for each assessed problem area, and then, basing on them, the final assessment of the OHS management (WZBP) is calculated. In the article, the results of audit surveys (partial indexes of WOP_i assessments) were used to determine the final assessment of the quality of occupational health and safety management using one of the multicriteria assessment methods in the computational layer-the ideal point method.