Factors leading to unsafe behavior in the twenty first century workplace: a review

Dodoo, Joana Eva; Al-Samarraie, Hosam

doi:10.1007/s11301-019-00157-6

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“…To assess regulatory alignment, two main approaches have been adopted. The first approach, reactive in nature, investigates the outcomes of the implemented regulations (i.e., the number of accidents and fatalities), and the second approach, which is proactive, considers the assessment of the unsafe behaviors of the drivers, for instance, unlicensed driving, poor driving practices, disregarding the traffic signals and signs, and deliberate deviations from the recommended safe behaviors [17,18]. The first approach has been criticized due to its reactive nature and the fact that it cannot provide early warning information to empower authorities to take action prior to accidents.…”

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An Investigation into Unsafe Behaviors and Traffic Accidents Involving Unlicensed Drivers: A Perspective for Alignment Measurement

Boulagouas

Herrero

Chaib

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Road traffic plays a vital role in countries’ economic growth and future development. However, traffic accidents are considered a major public health issue affecting humankind. Despite efforts by governments to improve traffic safety, the misalignment between the policy efforts and on-ground infringements, distractions and breaches reflect the regulatory failure. This paper uses the Bayesian network method to investigate unsafe behaviors and traffic accidents involving unlicensed drivers as a perspective for the regulatory alignment assessment. The findings suggest that: (1) unlicensed drivers are more likely to have unsafe driving behaviors; (2) the probability of being involved in a severe traffic accident increases when the drivers are unlicensed and decreases in the case of licensed drivers; (3) young drivers are noticeably more likely to engage in unsafe behaviors, usually leading to serious injuries and deaths, when their driving licenses are invalid; (4) women are more likely to engage in right-of-way violations and to have collisions with no serious injuries, contrary to unlicensed men drivers, who are involved in other types of traffic accidents resulting in serious injuries.

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An Investigation into Unsafe Behaviors and Traffic Accidents Involving Unlicensed Drivers: A Perspective for Alignment Measurement

Boulagouas

Herrero

Chaib

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…They affect the department's bottom line and overall effectiveness in ways that are harder to measure, but nonetheless drag the department down. Dodoo [11] carried out a study to examine the contributory factors to workers' unsafe attitude. After examining 70 empirical study in occupational safety and health research, and thereafter clustered into eight job domains namely: construction, healthcare, informal sector enterprises, manufacturing, mining, energy, agriculture, and multidimensional context.…”

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Assessment of Influence of Process Safety Culture on Employee Attitude towards Violations in Selected Petroleum Companies, in Niger-Delta

Ekong

Ugbebor

Brown

2021

JSRR

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The study examined Influence of Process Safety Culture on Employee Attitude towards violations in Selected Petroleum Companies, Niger-Delta. A descriptive cross-sectional oilfields based study. Study utilized non-probability sampling method combining purposive, convenience and quota sampling techniques. Purposive sampling is centred on the intent or purpose of the study. The research was a descriptive cross-sectional study, the population was made up of a sample size of one thousand workers of the processing unit of ten selected International Oil Companies (IOCs) and Local Oil Companies (LOCs) selected by convenience sample techniques. The study adopted Regression analysis for testing and modelling the research hypothesis. Before carrying out regression analysis, multicollinearity was checked to know if it is good fit for regression analysis on SPSS IBM 20 version. Outcome of the test shows that; regression analysis was acceptable because the Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) of the checked multicollinearity was 1.000 which means there was no awkward multicollinearity. This study adopted the 95% confidence level and 0.05 significance level. The study discovered that process safety culture influences employees’ attitudes toward violations in Oil and Gas industries with positive coefficient of standardized coefficient(β) of 0.397 and p-value 0.000 less than the significance level 0.05 and t-statistics being 12.354. It is recommended that ways to motivate employees to adopt the safety habit should be adopted and may be done using the carrot and stick method propounded by Abraham Maslow. Management must learn to choose the most suitable approach to motivate employees to abide by the safety expectations of their organisation. Awards can be given at the end of every quarter to the most safety conscious employee or acts of recognition or even monetary rewards. For employees who do not obey safety rules when positively motivated, penalties, fines, punishment.

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“…According to Lehtola et al (2008), even though strict regulations can be imposed on the way workers behave at the workplace, they can still be compelled to perform their duties unsafely because of the restrictions of their workmanship and the working environment. Studies have shown that most of the accidents and injuries that emanate from the workplace can be attributed to unsafe worker behaviours, a reflection of system deficiency and hazardous work environments (Dodoo and Al-Samarraie, 2019;Liao et al, 2017;Fang et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2015;Khosravi et al, 2014). Various descriptions for unsafe behaviour have evolved over the years.…”

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“…To achieve the International Labour Organization's ( 2001) aim of zero harm in the workplace, Dodoo and Al-Samarraie (2019) recommended that the solutions to unsafe behaviours at the construction site should be of both an employee and organizational type. Liao et al (2017) recommended to management in the construction industry to enhance its image as role models in terms of safety.…”

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Violent behaviour on construction sites: structural equation modelling of its impact on unsafe behaviour using partial least squares

Adinyira¹,

Manu²,

Agyekum³

et al. 2020

ECAM

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PurposeWork on construction sites involves individuals with diverse character, temperament,age, physical strength, culture, religion and experience level. A good number of these individuals are also alleged to involve themselves in substance and alcohol abuse due to the physically demanding nature of their work. These could promote the prevalence of violence on construction sites which could in turn affect safety on construction sites. However, there is a lack of empirical insight into the effect of violent behaviour and unsafe behaviour on construction sites. This study therefore pioneers an empirical inquiry into the relationship between violent behaviour and unsafe behaviour on construction sites.Design/methodology/approachSeventeen violent behaviours and 15 unsafe behaviours were measured on 12 construction sites among 305 respondents using a structured questionnaire. A total of 207 valid questionnaire responses were collected from site workers. Partial least square–structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique was used to examine the relationship between violent behaviour and unsafe behaviour.FindingsThe results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between violent behaviour and unsafe behaviour on construction sites.Originality/valueThe findings from this study provide valuable insight into a less investigated dimension of the problem of construction site safety management. A focus on attitudinal issues such as how workers relate toward others and toward self should be an important consideration in safety improvement interventions on construction sites.

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Factors leading to unsafe behavior in the twenty first century workplace: a review

Cited by 49 publications

References 90 publications

An Investigation into Unsafe Behaviors and Traffic Accidents Involving Unlicensed Drivers: A Perspective for Alignment Measurement

An Investigation into Unsafe Behaviors and Traffic Accidents Involving Unlicensed Drivers: A Perspective for Alignment Measurement

Assessment of Influence of Process Safety Culture on Employee Attitude towards Violations in Selected Petroleum Companies, in Niger-Delta

Violent behaviour on construction sites: structural equation modelling of its impact on unsafe behaviour using partial least squares

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