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Development of hierarchy of psychosocial risk hazards in occupational health and safety management systemsmining enterprises
V. Tsopa1, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4811-3712
A.Pavlychenko2, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4652-9180
S. Cheberiachko2, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-7157
T. Bilko3 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-3298
1MIM Business School, International Management Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine
3National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Coll.res.pap.nat.min.univ. 2025, 82:81-94
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https://doi.org/10.33271/crpnmu/82.081
ABSTRACT
Purpose. To develop a hierarchy of hazardous psychosocial risk factors within occupational health and safety management systems.
The methods. The foundation for building this hierarchy is the scientific study by David Beck, which analyzed data from the European Survey of more than a thousand industrial enterprises regarding the effectiveness of implementing eight different preventive measures. Three indicators were used to assess their effectiveness: prevalence, average marginal effect, and direction.
Findings. A paradigm for the hierarchy of hazardous psychosocial risk factors has been developed. Unlike traditional approaches that focus on the effectiveness of individual protective measures to reduce psychosocial risks, this paradigm applies an organizational maturity perspective to psychosocial risk management, enabling the development of recommendations for psychosocial programs. The hierarchy is built on the principle of a causal relationship between groups of factors and includes three levels:Level 3 – Fundamental hazardous factors related to organizational systems, safety culture, and managerial capacity (lack of psychosocial risk assessment, shortage of expertise, weak oversight);Level 2 – Hazardous factors that create an unfavorable work environment and contribute to organizational dysfunctions (role ambiguity, poorly managed changes, lack of communication);Level 1 – Hazardous factors that increase the likelihood and severity of physical and psychological harm (high-strain work, bullying, critical shortage of resources).
To create healthy and safe workplaces, an integrated, multi-level approach is proposed that simultaneously strengthens safety culture and psychosocial risk management processes. This approach will help prevent incidents and illnesses, reducing high levels of psychosocial risks.
The originality lies in changing the paradigm of the hierarchy of hazardous psychosocial risk factors: instead of the traditional model based on the effectiveness of measures (from most to least effective), the proposed hierarchy is grounded in organizational maturity and a strategic approach to psychosocial risk management.
Practical implementation consists in developing recommendations for using the hierarchy of hazardous psychosocial risk factors to design preventive measures that reduce psychosocial risks to an acceptable level within occupational health and safety management systems.
Keywords: psychosocial risks, hazardous psychosocial factors, mining enterprises, hierarchy of preventive measures, stress assessment model.
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