The dread factor: How hazards and safety training influence learning and performance.

Burke, Michael J.; Salvador, Rommel O.; Smith‐Crowe, Kristin; Chan‐Serafin, Suzanne; Smith, Alexis Nicole; Sonesh, Shirley C.

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“…Although the adoption of the OHSAS 18001 helps reduce work accidents in the short-term, the low riskiness of knowledge-based tasks creates a disconnection between safety systems and the employees' incentives to incorporate safety tasks in the day-to-day operations, and damages the long-term effect of the OHSAS 18001 on performance changes. Thus, organizations whose processes make less visible the consequences of work accidents might cultivate training programs that function better under these conditions (Burke et al, 2011). Managers should learn that training might function not only by disseminating safety knowledge to employees, but also by imparting on them relevant information and practical experience about work risks which are critical to assimilate, clarify and verify the value of safety knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The OHSAS 18001 creates codified knowledge in the form of written procedures, and the systematic repetition of safety tasks creates valuable experience. For example, prior studies on work safety show that specific training coupled with information contribute to increase the employees' alertness on the negative effects of occupational risks, thus increasing the effectiveness in the implementation of safety systems (Arezes and Miguel, 2008;Burke et al, 2011).…”

Section: H1: a Negative Relationship Exists Between Work Safety Outcomentioning

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Analysis of the relationship between the adoption of the OHSAS 18001 and business performance in different organizational contexts

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Abad

2018

Safety Science

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This paper investigates how the characteristics of operational processes-systematic and projectbased-affect the impact of adopting the safety management systems on different performance metrics. The proposed approach allows the development of a framework which matches safety problems and risks encompassed by organizational tasks with solutions generated by new safety knowledge linked to the adoption of the OHSAS 18001 standard. Our analysis of the effect over work accidents, as well as operational and economic performance of implementing the OHSAS 18001 in Spanish manufacturing, construction and professional services organizations during 2006-2009 shows that organizations modify existing safety practices to mitigate work accidents, and that safety learning effects widely vary across industry sectors. Organizations whose current knowledge is mostly codified and processes are highly systematic benefit more from safety knowledge and experience, whereas the effects of the OHSAS 18001 dilute in organizations whose knowledge is high in tacitness, and whose processes difficult the visibility of the consequences of work accidents. This study has important implications for managing knowledge acquisition processes. The findings offer valuable insights on how managers can develop communication and coordination actions to cope with the potential incompatibilities between safety management systems, the properties of knowledge and work environmental conditions.

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Section: Discussion Implications and Concluding Remarksmentioning

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Section: H1: a Negative Relationship Exists Between Work Safety Outcomentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of the relationship between the adoption of the OHSAS 18001 and business performance in different organizational contexts

Lafuente

Abad

2018

Safety Science

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“…The cognitive appraisal of a given situation as dangerous may influence the readiness to engage and the choice of protective actions. For example, a recent meta-analysis showed that the motivation to participate in safety trainings rises if the consequences of a potential event are perceived as threatening (Burke et al 2011a). …”

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Risk perception in fire evacuation behavior revisited: definitions, related concepts, and empirical evidence

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Risk perception (RP) is studied in many research disciplines (e.g., safety engineering, psychology, and sociology). Definitions of RP can be broadly divided into expectancy-value and risk-as-feeling approaches. In the present review, RP is seen as the personalization of the risk related to a current event, such as an ongoing fire emergency; it is influenced by emotions and prone to cognitive biases. We differentiate RP from other related concepts (e.g., situation awareness) and introduce theoretical frameworks relevant to RP in fire evacuation (e.g., Protective Action Decision Model and Heuristic-Systematic approaches). Furthermore, we review studies on RP during evacuation with a focus on the World Trade Center evacuation on September 11, 2001 and present factors modulating RP as well as the relation between perceived risk and protective actions. We summarize the factors that influence perception risk and discuss the direction of these relationships (i.e., positive or negative influence, or inconsequential) and conclude with presenting limitations of this review and an outlook on future research.

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“…From both a safety, and a performance perspective, having training is better than not having training, and a lack of training has been noted as a contributing factor in studies of accidents (e.g., Burke et al 2011;Wagenaar and Groeneweg 1987). In contrast, studies have shown that training can improve safety attitudes (e.g., DeJoy et al 2000;Harvey et al 2001) and decrease lost-time accidents (e.g., Harshbarger and Rose 1991;Vredenburgh 2002).…”

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The Influences of Socialization and Prestart Training on New Employee Safety

Burt

2015

New Employee Safety

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Individuals that undertake training can potentially not only learn from the training, but also make assumptions that other employees are learning, have learnt, or will learn from the same training. Given the fact that training does not always deliver the desired outcome, and there will be large individual differences in training outcomes, a general assumption that training will achieve its objectives is very risky. That is,

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The dread factor: How hazards and safety training influence learning and performance.

Cited by 183 publications

References 163 publications

Analysis of the relationship between the adoption of the OHSAS 18001 and business performance in different organizational contexts

Analysis of the relationship between the adoption of the OHSAS 18001 and business performance in different organizational contexts

Risk perception in fire evacuation behavior revisited: definitions, related concepts, and empirical evidence

The Influences of Socialization and Prestart Training on New Employee Safety

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