Workplace Safety and Health

Salminen, Simo

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“…Since the conclusion by Greenwood and Woods (1919) that ‘…it seems that the genesis of multiple accidents under uniform external conditions is an affair of personality…’ ( Greenwood and Woods, 1919 ), psychologists have been interested in individual differences in accident causation. While accident proneness theory, that is, the idea people who repeatedly have accidents are accident prone, has been widely refuted by theoretical and empirical grounds ( McKenna, 1983 ; Salminen, 2001 ; Fay and Tissington, 2004 ; Purpura, 2019 ), the wide consensus among researchers seems to be that certain individual difference factors, such as cognitive factors or personality character traits, make some individuals more liable to accidents than others ( McKenna, 1983 ; Lawton and Parker, 1998 ; Diamant and Rusou, 2021 ; Niranjan et al, 2022 ). One difference between the ‘differential accident involvement’ concept by McKenna (1983) and ‘accident proneness’ ( Shaw and Sichel, 1971 ) is that the former refers to individual difference factors which increase the accident liability, whereas the latter focuses on the identification of ‘rotten apples’ who account for the most of the accidents.…”

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Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving

Lajunen

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2022

Front. Psychol.

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Temperament refers to basic, largely inherited, relatively stable personality traits which have been present since early childhood. Considering the very fundamental role of temperament in human development and behaviour, it is reasonable to assume that temperament is also related to risky driving and drivers’ view of themselves as drivers. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between Cloninger’s temperament dimensions, risky driving and drivers’ view of their perceptual motor and safety skills. The sample consisted of 335 Turkish drivers (aged 19–57; 53.7% men) who completed an Internet-based survey including Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) and Driver Skill Inventory (DSI). Correlation analyses showed that TCI scale Cooperativeness correlated negatively with all DBQ scales indicating risky driving and positively with safety skills. In regression analyses after controlling age, gender and lifetime mileage, cooperativeness still was significantly related to all DBQ scales and safety skills. Persistence correlated negatively with ordinary violations, lapses and errors and positively with perceptual motor skills. In regression analyses, persistence was related to errors and lapses. Reward dependence was positively related to lapses and harm avoidance negatively to perceptual motor skills. The results of the present study indicate that largely innate temperament character traits may influence an individual’s predisposition to risky driving. Future studies about temperament and risky driving with larger samples allowing sub-group analyses are needed.

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Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving

Lajunen

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2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…The proponents of OHS advocate for the use of protective equipment by workers, including the use of face masks to protect against dust inhalation [23]. PPE should be used as a control measure but not to eliminate the hazard during construction work [24].…”

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Occupational Health and Safety Status in the Windhoek Construction Industry: A Namibian Perspective

Nghitanwa¹,

Zungu²

2017

OJSST

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Construction industry remains the dangerous industry in the world, due to the nature of work and the working environment which exposes workers to different types of hazards and occupational accidents. Construction workers are also at risk of developing occupational related health conditions due to the exposure to occupational hazards. A cross-sectional, quantitative, descriptive study was conducted to collect the data regarding occupational health and safety status in the construction industry. Data was collected with questionnaires developed based on the literatures and the World Health Organization Healthy workplace model. The study found out that the provision of occupational health and safety in the Windhoek construction industry is in poor status. Furthermore, construction work is mainly for male, young workers aged between 18 to 29 years. The mean age is 31.48 years. The study results also indicated that occupational hazards are prevalent in the construction industry. Nevertheless, most participants indicated that occupational accidents are not common in the construction sites. The study recommended the development of practical guidelines to improve the occupational health and safety status in the construction industry. The recommended guidelines should be implemented in all construction sites.

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A study on the enforcement strategy for safety and health compliance in manufacturing sector in Malaysia

Hassan

Ismail

Makhtar³

2020

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Safety and health aspect should always be part of manufacturing system so that every stage of the manufacturing process and activities will expose no risk to more than a millions workers involved in this sector. In Malaysia, manufacturing sector is under the jurisdiction of Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (OSHA) and Factory and Machinery Act 1967 (FMA) which are enforced by the Department of Occupational and Health (DOSH). The objective of the study is to study the enforcement strategy carried out by DOSH officers whether it is persuasive, punitive or combination of both. Persuasion and punishment refer to the type of action taken by the enforcement officers against the errand employers. Making remarks in a log book, giving out directive letters and issuing notices (Notice of Prohibition, NOI and Notice of Improvement, NOP) are considered persuasive whilst opening an investigation paper (IP) for the purpose of offering compound and bringing the matter to court are considered punitive. The study depends on DOSH’s statistic i.e. OSH enforcement activities and action taken by its officers against errand employers during enforcement activities. The statistic shows that DOSH use both persuasion and punishment strategies during occupational safety and health (OSH) enforcement activities, but the use of persuasion is too glaring i.e. as much as 98.5% from the total number of actions taken against errand employers.

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Workplace Safety and Health

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Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving

Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving

Occupational Health and Safety Status in the Windhoek Construction Industry: A Namibian Perspective

A study on the enforcement strategy for safety and health compliance in manufacturing sector in Malaysia

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