Lift-OSH

• Principal investigator: Annachiara Longoni
• Research group: Business Network Dynamics (BuNeD)
• Funding body: European Agency for Safety and Health at the Workplace (EU-OSHA)

About the project

This project was made in response to the European Agency for Safety and Health at the Workplace (EU-OSHA) tender for ‘Supporting compliance and better OSH practice through lever-age in market-based initiatives”. It will provide both an overview and in-depth case studies of market leverage initiatives in the construction and agri-food sectors, as well as an analytical part that will uncover factors that influences market leverage of OSH in supply chains such as regulation, market incentives, societal norms, business cases.

The consortium’s work contributes to research-based knowledge about the practical application of market-based leverage initiatives and instruments in the two sectors, which can be used by both policy makers and companies, as well as other stakeholders in the construction and agri-food sectors. Furthermore, it can inform policies and supply chain initiatives in other sectors.

To achieve the overarching goal of the project, the project brings together experts from five EU member states. Each represent different types of occupational safety and health and social insurance systems embedded in different socio-economic and regulatory contexts. The team’s cumulative and complementary expertise secures that the results will be based on state-of-the-art research and therefore provide the platform for contributing new research-based knowledge to the field.