Kannappan Suvetha, Gupta Mansi
Department of Community Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
India Representative, HER Project, Business for Social Responsibility, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.
Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Jul-Sep;25(3):163-168. doi: 10.4103/ijoem.ijoem_409_20. Epub 2021 Oct 9.
The health risks faced by textile workers calls for a workplace health system that is comprehensive and accessible. To enhance the capacity of workplaces to strengthen their health system, a toolkit was developed by the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a non-profit global business network and sustainability consultancy.
The Health System Strengthening (HSS) toolkit was designed to provide a set of tools, resources, and concrete steps for the factory management and health staff to work toward continuous improvement of their on-site health systems. It was then implemented with academic collaboration simultaneously In three factories/ in three manufacturing units/ in three workplaces in South India over 6 months to find out its usefulness as a self-reference tool for HSS. Monitoring and evaluation tools and indicators were developed based on the logic framework.
The main outcomes of the HSS pilot program include the formation of a health committee which was able to utilize the modules, perform a self-assessment of the health system, and come out with short- and long-term action plans for HSS under expert supervision and guidance.
Overall, the toolkit was found to be an effective solution for HSS in industries which require expert guidance for implementation.
纺织工人面临的健康风险需要一个全面且易于使用的工作场所健康系统。为了提高工作场所加强其健康系统的能力，由社会责任商业组织（BSR）开发了一个工具包，该组织是一个非营利性全球商业网络和可持续发展咨询机构。
加强健康系统（HSS）工具包旨在为工厂管理人员和健康工作人员提供一套工具、资源和具体步骤，以努力持续改进其现场健康系统。然后，在学术合作的支持下，该工具包在印度南部的三个工厂/三个制造单位/三个工作场所同时实施了6个月，以了解其作为HSS自我参考工具的实用性。基于逻辑框架开发了监测和评估工具及指标。
HSS试点项目的主要成果包括成立了一个健康委员会，该委员会能够使用这些模块，对健康系统进行自我评估，并在专家监督和指导下制定HSS的短期和长期行动计划。
总体而言，该工具包被认为是在实施需要专家指导的行业中加强健康系统的有效解决方案。
