Why Do Workers Take Safety Risks?—A Conceptual Model for the Motivation Underpinning Perverse Agency

Ji, Zuzhen; Pons, Dirk J.; Pearse, John

doi:10.3390/safety4020024

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“…Management of OHS risks is a crucial component in the legislative landscape of most countries and in any business [35,36]. Existing methodologies for reducing harm are primarily based on the risk methodology [37], namely the reduction of consequence or the likelihood of harm.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study Regarding the Improvement of Bottling Process for Spring Waters, through the Implementation of the Occupational Health and Food Safety Requirements

Glevitzky¹,

Sârb²,

Popa³

2019

Safety

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The design, development and deployment, alongside with preventive maintenance of equipment helps with controlling safety issues in water bottling processes. However, these aspects are not-enough to prevent accidents; they must be closely related to the implementation of quality, occupational health and safety, and food security standards. The approach presented in this paper was to show a summary of the assessment of the risks of injury and professional illness for all within the organization according to the ISO 45001:2018 standard. Also, a statistical analysis was performed to evaluate the occurrence of defects in different equipment in the technological process. The paper highlights the safety parameters of the spring water “Roua Apusenilor” namely the: organoleptic, physic-chemical and microbiological ones, according to the European legislation. A hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) generic model was developed for this process. In this case study, the analysis and assessment of hazards that may occur during processing was implemented for still water bottling stages, as was an identification of the critical control points, which include filtration and ozone water treatment. The HACCP principles, included in the ISO 22000:2018 standard, were applied in order to improve the food safety and security, to reduce the risks resulting from the consumption of “Roua Apusenilor” spring water and, also, for increasing customer confidence. The obtained results significantly relied upon the situation found in the industrial company used as a benchmark for the research. The analysis revealed that, considered safety standards OHSAS (ISO 45001) and HACCP (ISO 22000) share the same goal of safety production for safe food products.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study Regarding the Improvement of Bottling Process for Spring Waters, through the Implementation of the Occupational Health and Food Safety Requirements

Glevitzky¹,

Sârb²,

Popa³

2019

Safety

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“…This is evident in the need to repeatedly represent causal chains on the diagram, hence our suggestion to use modules. It does not readily capture the more abstract organisational factors such as organisational culture and perverse agency [85]. Nonetheless, Bowtie does excel at representing the failings of the operational systems alongside the physical faults.…”

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A Systematic Methodology for Developing Bowtie in Risk Assessment: Application to Borescope Inspection

Aust

Pons

2020

Aerospace

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Background—Bowtie analysis is a broadly used tool in risk management to identify root causes and consequences of hazards and show barriers that can prevent or mitigate the events to happen. Limitations of the method are reliance on judgement and an ad hoc development process. Purpose—Systematic approaches are needed to identify threats and consequences, and to ascertain mitigation and prevention barriers. Results—A new conceptual framework is introduced by combining the Bowtie method with the 6M structure of Ishikawa to categorise the threats, consequences and barriers. The method is developed for visual inspection of gas turbine components, for which an example is provided. Originality—Provision of a more systematic methodology has the potential to result in more comprehensive Bowtie risk assessments, with less chance of serious omissions. The method is expected to find application in the broader industry, and to support operators who are non-risk experts but have application-specific knowledge, when performing Bowtie risk assessment.

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“…Another area where psychology intersects with health and safety is in the perverse agency concept [57], which seeks to explain why workers take safety risks that may lead to adverse long-term health.…”

Section: Risk Management In Health and Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Methods to evaluate long-term health effects are especially absent. Self-prevention is difficult because of the challenge of identifying harm associated with the work, see also the concept of perverse agency [57]. The relationship between hazards and consequences are often poorly developed.…”

Section: Contemporary Issues In Health and Safety Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Measuring Industrial Health Using a Diminished Quality of Life Instrument

Pons

Pearse

2018

Safety

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Historically, the focus of industrial health and safety (H&S) has been on safety and accident avoidance with relatively less attention to long-term occupational health other than via health monitoring and surveillance. The difficulty is the multiple overlapping health consequences that are difficult to separate, measure, and attribute to a source. Furthermore, many health problems occur later, not immediately on exposure, and may be cumulative. Consequently, it is difficult to conclusively identify the cause. Workers may lack knowledge of long-term consequences, and thus not use protective systems effectively. Compounding this is the lack of instruments and methodologies to measure exposure to harm. Historically, the existing risk methodologies for calculating safety risk are based on the construct of consequence and likelihood. However, this may not be appropriate for health, especially for the long-term harm, as both the consequence and likelihood may be indeterminate. This paper develops an instrument to measure the health component of workplace H&S. This is achieved by adapting the established World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) quality of life score to workplace health. Specifically, the method is to identify the likelihood of an exposure incident arising (as estimated by engineering technologists and H&S officers), followed by evaluation of the biological harm consequences. Those consequences are then scored by using the WHODAS 12-item inventory. The result is an assessment of the Diminished Quality of Life (DQL) associated with a workplace hazard. This may then be used to manage the minimization of harm, exposure monitoring, and the design of safe systems of work.

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Why Do Workers Take Safety Risks?—A Conceptual Model for the Motivation Underpinning Perverse Agency

Cited by 19 publications

References 97 publications

Study Regarding the Improvement of Bottling Process for Spring Waters, through the Implementation of the Occupational Health and Food Safety Requirements

Study Regarding the Improvement of Bottling Process for Spring Waters, through the Implementation of the Occupational Health and Food Safety Requirements

A Systematic Methodology for Developing Bowtie in Risk Assessment: Application to Borescope Inspection

Measuring Industrial Health Using a Diminished Quality of Life Instrument

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