KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER - CRITICAL COMPONENTS IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY - AN ESTONIAN APPROACH

Defining and understanding the knowledge-sharing process facilitates the application of knowledge management to problems, systems, and situations in individual organizations and in the field of occupational health and safety in general. In this paper the process of knowledge transfer in occupational health and safety at the state level and the main barriers are described. The authors offer a possible tool for knowledge management - a Sectoral Profile on Occupational Health and Safety for knowledge creation and transfer and underscore the need to focus on the extent to which decision-makers and others receive and use such information and knowledge.