Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Management of Listed Companies in China's Energy Industry Based on the Combined Weight-Cloud Model: From the Perspective of FPE Information Disclosure

Yujie Wang; Hong Chen; Ruyin Long; Shiyan Jiang; Bei Liu

doi:10.3390/ijerph19148313

Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Management of Listed Companies in China's Energy Industry Based on the Combined Weight-Cloud Model: From the Perspective of FPE Information Disclosure

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 7;19(14):8313. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148313.

Authors

Yujie Wang¹, Hong Chen^{2

3}, Ruyin Long^{2

3}, Shiyan Jiang⁴, Bei Liu⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Economics and Management, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030600, China.
² School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
³ Institute of National Security and Green Development, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
⁴ School of Economics and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China.

Abstract

Protecting labor safety and health and actively carrying out occupational safety and health management (OSHM) is a common need worldwide, and it is also one of the important efforts of Chinese enterprises under the background of promoting the implementation of the Healthy China strategy. Based on in-depth thinking on the current stage of OHSM, this study incorporated "management framework, management process, management effectiveness" (FPE) into an integrated framework and constructed an FPE evaluation system for enterprise OHSM. This study innovatively collected and refined FPE information from the perspective of information disclosure and used the combined weight cloud model to evaluate the occupational health and safety management level (OHSML) of 69 listed companies in China's energy industry from 2009-2019. The results showed the following. (1) The OHSML of most listed companies in China's energy industry was still at a low-end level. Among the companies that have issued relevant information reports, only 5.58% (S = 30) of the sample companies' OHSML were at an acceptable level (Level IV) or declarable level (Level V). The OHSML comprehensive evaluation level of 92.56% (S = 498) of the sample companies was between the transitional level (Level III) and the improved level (Level II). (2) During 2009-2019, although the annual OHSML of listed companies in China's energy industry showed an upward trend, the growth rate was low, and even the OHSML of some listed companies in the energy industry showed the characteristics of reduced fluctuations. (3) From the perspective of the PFT three-dimensional subsystem level of OHSM, the evaluation level of the governance framework subsystem was the highest, whereas the evaluation level of the management process subsystem and the management effectiveness subsystem were relatively low. Finally, according to the relevant results, some suggestions were proposed to improve the OHSML of listed companies in China's energy industry. These findings can provide guidance for companies to improve their OSHM performance.

Keywords: FPE information disclosure; cloud model; listed companies in the energy industry; occupational health and safety management.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

China
Disclosure
Industry
Occupational Health*
Safety Management

Grants and funding

This work was financially supported by the Major Project of National Social Science Funding of China (grant No. 21&ZD166, 19ZDA107), the Social Science Funding of Jiangsu Province (grant No. 20GLC009), the Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M703499), the Science and Technology Special Project of the Institute of National Security and Green Development of Jiangnan University (1095219032210060), and the Social Science Foundation of China University of Mining and Technology (2022SK02).