This study reviewed 128 articles that examined occupational health and safety (OHS)
issues in operations management (OM). We first investigated the distribution of
articles by journal type, year of publication, methodologies and research contexts.
Based on citation network analysis, an objective approach to identify clusters of
articles in the OHS literature, we found four major research domains of OHS issues,
which are safety climate, management systems integration, voluntary OHS systems
and sustainable operations. We further drew a map of knowledge structure by
conducting a main path analysis of articles within each research domain. Finally, we
concluded the future research opportunities for each research domain of OHS from an
OM perspective.