How to identify the influence of the organisation of work and management on Occupational Safety and Health and on Sickness Absence in Danish abattoirs

We plan to investigate how the central policies on sickness absence and ‘occupational safety and health’(OSH) are understood and acted out as procedures by leaders, and how these are perceived to influences the occupational safety and health and sickness absence of the work by the management and the blue-collar workers. To do this, we will be conducting descriptive quantitative analysis of sickness absence and production volume, as well as qualitative analysis of the policies, and of differences in procedures and practices. We will compare these analyses to understand, how different interpretations of and ways of implementing organisational policies lead to structural and organizational differences.