Directions for the enhancement of methodological support of the psychosocial risk management process
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Purpose. To identify and justify directions for the enhancement of methodological support of the Plan-Do-Check-Act procedures within the Occupational Risk Management Process (ORMP) in order to enhance the effectiveness of forecasting and preventing cases of mental health impairment (MHI) among employees. Methodology. Analysis of regulatory and legal documents and scientific and technical literature on psychosocial risk management – to define and update the research purpose and tasks; probabilistic-statistical methods and Markov’s process theory – to develop directions for enhancement of the methodological support of the Plan and Do procedures of the ORMP, respectively; formalisation method – to improve approaches to implementing the Check–Act procedures of the ORMP. Findings. It is proposed to apply an optimization model to implement the ORMP’s Plan procedure, which will allow finding the minimum required amount of resources for developing safety measures that, with a given probability, will prevent the occurrence of MHI cases in an employee during the planning horizon. And for the Do procedure, a stochastic model is used, which will allow assessing the probability of not exceeding the level of accumulation of negative impact of psychosocial factors (PSFs) in the employee’s body at any time during the work shift, taking into account the random characteristics of such impact. For the Check-Act procedures, it is proposed to apply an automated system with functions of constant monitoring of the parameters’ values of the cumulative negative impact of psychosocial factors (PSFs) in the employee’s body and deducing the consequences of such impact, as well as prompt values correction of such parameters in case they exceed the established standards. Originality. For the first time, the problems of implementing the Plan procedure of the ORMP have been formulated (in mathematical terms) as the problem of minimising the costs of developing measures to prevent cases of MHI, subject to a given probability of such cases occurring, and the Do procedure – as the problem of finding the marginal distribution of a random Markov process with fading, the parameters of which describe the condition of the employee, as well as the level of accumulation of the negative impact of PF in their body during a work shift. The principles for carrying out continuous monitoring and prompt adjustment of the characteristics of such an impact have been determined. Practical value. The identified directions form the basis for the development of improved methodological support for Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) procedures within the framework of further research.
Authors: А. P Bochkovskyi, N. Yu Sapozhnikova
Institution: Odesа Polytechnic National University
Language: English
Subfield: Occupational Therapy
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7204462609