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5 Literature Review This review focuses on previously published academic literature on SMSs and their use. However, little documented knowledge exists in this domain, especially related to SMS use in managing highway maintenance-worker safety.
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6 Use of Safety Management Systems in Managing Highway Maintenance Worker Safety review on the effectiveness of OH&S management system interventions, and they found that there exist four major elements in implementing SMSs: 1. Overall commitment from the management, including occupational health and safety policy, goals and objectives, and allocation of resources, system integration, and system communication; 2.
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Literature Review 7 In other similar work, Yiu et al.
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8 Use of Safety Management Systems in Managing Highway Maintenance Worker Safety As such, DOTs aim to implement effective safety programs and policies to eliminate workers' and public safety risks at highway work sites. Even though all DOTs share the same responsibility of managing and maintaining their highway systems, each DOT has its own structure for safety programs and safety management (Gambatese et al.
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Literature Review 9 Minimal research has been done to investigate occupational safety and health for DOTs on a state and national level (Hallmark et al. 2002, Chung et al.
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