Implementation Analysis. A policy is where a set of actions is based. Policy takes effect through actions, without them, a policy does not have a life of its own. For actions to take place, it has to be implemented. Implementation tests the soundness or effectiveness of the policy. This point echoes the connectedness of policy and implementation.
Thus, this paper used implementation analysis as an analytical framework to study the WHSS. The analysis can give information on whether or not the Strategy has work out as desired. It can also provide information about various factors and variables that hinder goals or result to outcomes that are not intended.
The steps to this analytical framework followed that of the implementation analysis of Mintrom (2012: 2930-295). Reference was also made to the 5C Protocol Najam (1995), clusters of variables that serve as a framework for policy implementation analysis. The critical variables in the implementation analysis have also been applied by Bayrakal (2006) in examining the U.S. Pollution Act, as also cited by Mintrom (2012).
These 5P critical variables are content, context, commitment, capacity and client and coalitions that interact and interlink with one another affecting effectiveness of implementation (Najam 1995).
The scope of analyses was not in any way comprehensive. The study was limited by time and duration of the paper (as a course requirement), thus it did not dwell on its strengths. It did not cover the sectoral action plans that have yet to be developed or may have just been released as of this writing. The WHSS has long since been improved by its action agenda released in 2010. The analyses and data used here are both from the WHSS and the action agenda as both are linked together. The WHSS serves as a framework with the action agenda providing the clearer direction to achieve the Strategy’s vision of “Healthy People in Safe and Productive Workplaces.3