The effect of positive feedback on industrial housekeeping and accidents; A long-term study at a shipyard

Saari, Jorma; Näsänen, Merja

doi:10.1016/0169-8141(89)90003-6

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“…Measures that increase workers' level of job satisfaction, such as the provision of support beyond what is formally stated in the contractual agreement [38,39,40], the institution of job enrichment programmes [41,42], the provision of quality housekeeping [43], and safety-skills acquisition [44] could be implemented. Additionally, management might have to encourage an organizational climate that stresses the importance of safety and a rewardscheme that encourages safe work practices, give workers enough freedom and authority, and provide them with information and assistance on how to do their jobs properly.…”

Section: Implications Of Findings For the Work Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workers’ Perceptions of Workplace Safety: An African Perspective

Gyekye

2006

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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Section: Implications Of Findings For the Work Environmentmentioning

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Workers’ Perceptions of Workplace Safety: An African Perspective

Gyekye

2006

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…This category includes participative management, improved housekeeping practices, modified work loads and paces [Behrens et al, 1984;Bilette, 1987], pay rate [SundstromFrisk, 1984], as well as laws and regulations [Springfeldt et al, 1987]. Most of the administrative studies reviewed used performance management techniques, which included worker involvement and empowerment in addition to a variety of behavioral strategies, such as goal setting, monitoring, and feedback of work behaviors [Carter and Menckel, 1990;Menckel and Carter 1985;Fiedler 1987;Harms-Ringdahl, 1987;Painter et al, 1986;Wood 1987;Saari, 1989]. Sulzer-Azaroff et al [1994] reviewed 44 studies and concluded that this administrative management technique positively influences safety behavior and decreases accident rates.…”

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Design and conduct of occupational injury intervention studies: A review of evaluation strategies

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Occupational injuries continue to exact a great toll on American workers and their employers—the physical and financial costs are enormous. However, in the current political climate, few employers or regulatory agencies will implement injury prevention interventions without specific evidence of their effectiveness. This paper reviews the literature on the design, conduct, and evaluation of occupational injury interventions. Our review suggests that randomized controlled trials are rare and also notes that the quasi‐experimental studies in the literature often use the weakest designs. We recommend a hierarchical approach to evaluating occupational injury interventions—beginning with qualitative studies, following up with simple quasi‐experimental designs using historical controls, continuing with more elaborate quasi‐experimental designs comparing different firms' experience, and, when necessary, implementing randomized controlled trials. Am. J. Ind. Med. 32:164–179, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss Inc.

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“…Undoubtedly, it can be argued that the environmental factors cited by the accident victims represent causes that are at least partially connected to inadequate supervision or management inefficiency. For example, work environments with good housekeeping have shown a reduction rate of 70% to 90% in accident occurrence (e.g., Saari & Näsänen, 1989). But by their emphatic external attributions and marginal internal attributions, the victims may have biased their attributional explanations in order to effectively counteract any direct blame that would have endangered their work positions.…”

Section: Accident Victims' Perspectivementioning

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Causal Attributions of Ghanaian Industrial Workers for Accident Occurrence

Gyekye

Salminen

2004

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This study confirms the self-defensive attribution hypothesis on causal attributions of accidents in Ghana's work environment. In this investigation, Ghanaian industrial workers and their supervisors assigned causality to industrial accidents, and their responses were compared. The results showed that the victims attributed their accidents to external causes to a greater extent than did the supervisors, and to internal causes to a lesser extent than did the supervisors. This finding reflects the tendency toward self-protective bias, whereby people tend to project blame for their failures onto external circumstances.In the execution of job assignments, employees often encounter negative performance outcomes that lead to information search and attribution formulation. These causal explanations help people to find remedies that are used to prevent future accidents from happening. The importance of being able to explain and predict such accidents has led to a number of studies on attribution explorations. However, the research results on causal attributions have often provided evidence of self-serving and ego-protecting biases.These attributional distortions are rather common in novel and ambiguous situations (Wong & Weiner, 1981), where one is faced with multiple causal agents, as in the case of industrial accidents (DeJoy, 1985(DeJoy, , 1990Turner & Pidgeon, 1997). As industrial accidents tend to afford fertile ground for causal and responsibility attributional distortions and biases, the work environment therefore seems to be the appropriate domain to examine evidence of causal attribution biases and distortions. An example of such attributional distortion occurs when people make use of self-protective mechanisms to project blame for their personal failures onto external circumstances. This has been labeled the selfdefensive attribution hypothesis (Shaver, 1970a;Walster, 1966).

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The effect of positive feedback on industrial housekeeping and accidents; A long-term study at a shipyard

Cited by 65 publications

References 18 publications

Workers’ Perceptions of Workplace Safety: An African Perspective

Workers’ Perceptions of Workplace Safety: An African Perspective

Design and conduct of occupational injury intervention studies: A review of evaluation strategies

Causal Attributions of Ghanaian Industrial Workers for Accident Occurrence

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