A comparison of the perceptions and beliefs of workers and owners with regard to workplace safety in small metal fabrication businesses

Parker, Dianne; Brosseau, Lisa M.; Samant, Yogindra; Pan, Wei; Xi, Min; Haugan, Dave

doi:10.1002/ajim.20508

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“…It is normal for me and my co-workers to discuss and/or report safety problems with our supervisors or managers (Lin et al, 2008;Parker et al, 2007) Combination of two items E7 I speak to co-workers at risk and encourage them to fix safety problems (Tucker and Turner, 2011) E8 I am able to get information on safety during working hours, if I ever needed (Lin et al, 2008) Wording E9…”

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The development of a conceptual model and self-reported measure of occupational health and safety vulnerability

Smith

Saunders

Lifshen

et al. 2015

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Injuries at work have a substantial economic and societal burden. Often groups of labour market participants, such as young workers, recent immigrants or temporary workers are labelled as being "vulnerable" to work injury. However, defining groups in this way does little to enable a better understanding of the broader factors that place workers at increased risk of injury. In this paper we describe the development of a new measure of occupational health and safety (OH&S) vulnerability. The purpose of this measure was to allow the identification of workers at increased risk of injury, and to enable the monitoring and surveillance of OH&S vulnerability in the labour market. The development included a systematic literature search, and conducting focus groups with a variety of stakeholder groups, to generate a pool of potential items, followed by a series of steps to reduce these items to a more manageable pool. The final measure is 29-item instrument that captures information on four related, but distinct dimensions, thought to be associated with increased risk of injury. These dimensions are: hazard exposure; occupational health and safety policies and procedures; OH&S awareness; and empowerment to participate in injury prevention. In a large sample of employees in Ontario and British Columbia the final measure displayed minimal missing responses, reasonably good distributions across response categories, and strong factorial validity. This new measure of OH&S vulnerability can identify workers who are at risk of injury and provide information on the dimensions of work that may increase this risk. This measurement could be undertaken at one point in time to compare vulnerability across groups, or be undertaken at multiple time points to examine changes in dimensions of OH&S vulnerability, for example, in response to a primary prevention intervention.

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The development of a conceptual model and self-reported measure of occupational health and safety vulnerability

Smith

Saunders

Lifshen

et al. 2015

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Safety consultants also are involved in many of the process activities, but due to space considerations, their main contributions are depicted during the initial development and design stage only. During this stage, the importance of establishing a safety committee is perhaps the single most important practice linked to improved safety performance (Parker et al, 2007).…”

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When workplace safety depends on behavior change: Topics for behavioral safety research

Wirth

Sigurðsson

2008

Journal of Safety Research

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“…Our use of social cognitive theory is described elsewhere. 25 All data collection methods and surveys were reviewed and approved by the Park Nicollet and University of Minnesota Institutional Review Boards.…”

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A Randomized, Controlled Intervention of Machine Guarding and Related Safety Programs in Small Metal-Fabrication Businesses

Parker

Brosseau²,

Samant

et al. 2009

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SYNOPSISObjectives. Metal fabrication employs an estimated 3.1 million workers in the United States. The absence of machine guarding and related programs such as lockout/tagout may result in serious injury or death. The purpose of this study was to improve machine-related safety in small metal-fabrication businesses.Methods. We used a randomized trial with two groups: management only and management-employee. We evaluated businesses for the adequacy of machine guarding (machine scorecard) and related safety programs (safety audit). We provided all businesses with a report outlining deficiencies and prioritizing their remediation. In addition, the management-employee group received four onehour interactive training sessions from a peer educator.Results. We evaluated 40 metal-fabrication businesses at baseline and 37 (93%) one year later. Of the three nonparticipants, two had gone out of business. More than 40% of devices required for adequate guarding were missing or inadequate, and 35% of required safety programs and practices were absent at baseline. Both measures improved significantly during the course of the intervention. No significant differences in changes occurred between the two intervention groups. Machine-guarding practices and programs improved by up to 13% and safety audit scores by up to 23%. Businesses that added safety committees or those that started with the lowest baseline measures showed the greatest improvements.Conclusions. Simple and easy-to-use assessment tools allowed businesses to significantly improve their safety practices, and safety committees facilitated this process.

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A comparison of the perceptions and beliefs of workers and owners with regard to workplace safety in small metal fabrication businesses

Cited by 31 publications

References 32 publications

The development of a conceptual model and self-reported measure of occupational health and safety vulnerability

The development of a conceptual model and self-reported measure of occupational health and safety vulnerability

When workplace safety depends on behavior change: Topics for behavioral safety research

A Randomized, Controlled Intervention of Machine Guarding and Related Safety Programs in Small Metal-Fabrication Businesses

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