When does lean hurt? - An exploration of lean practices and worker health and safety outcomes

A. Longoni*, Mark Pagell, David Johnston, Anthony Veltri

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This research takes a first step toward a more complete understanding of the effects of lean production on both operational and worker health and safety performance. Previous operations management literature considered only the operational performance implications of lean while previous safety literature considered only the worker health and safety implications of lean. This research considers both perspectives by providing empirical evidence on the impact of lean on operational and health and safety performance. Results from 10 case studies show that the adoption of lean practices and or an overall lean philosophy has a positive impact on operational and health and safety performance. However, there are some nuances in the role of individual practices associated with lean. The plants with the worst operational and health and safety performance in the sample were those that adopted just-in-time practices without human resource and prevention practices. The results show how both the social and technical components of lean are required for lean to have positive operational and health and safety impacts.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)3300-3320
Número de páginas21
PublicaciónInternational Journal of Production Research
Volumen51
N.º11
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 jun 2013
Publicado de forma externa

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