scholarly journals Relative Effectiveness of Worker Safety and Health Training Methods

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Burke ◽  
Sue Ann Sarpy ◽  
Kristin Smith-Crowe ◽  
Suzanne Chan-Serafin ◽  
Rommel O. Salvador ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Safety And Health

Evaluation of worker safety and health training

2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snigdha Mukherjee ◽  
Lynn Overman ◽  
Laura Leviton ◽  
Barbara Hilyer
Keyword(s):  
Worker Safety ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Safety And Health

scholarly journals Effects of safety and health training in metalworking small-sized enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Beatriz Barros ◽  
Artemisa Dores ◽  
Matilde Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Safety Behaviour

Safety and health training is an essential tool to reduce occupational accidents and diseases. However, the method applied is critical for the effect of a training programme in Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) related outcomes. Additionally, studies about the appropriateness of OSH training methods involving small-sized enterprises are scarce. This study aims to compare the effect of two training methods when applied in metalworking small-sized enterprises: an active method, with group discussion, and an expository method, with formal exposure. The effect of these two methods was assessed at the level of risk perception (perceptions of susceptibility, severity, barriers and benefits), safety behaviour (safety compliance and safety participation) and OSH knowledge. A sample of 212 workers was divided in three groups: one experimental group and two control groups (passive and active). In order to evaluate the effect of safety and health training in the different dependent variables, a questionnaire was applied before and one month after the training sessions. The results showed that safety and health training had a positive, but limited, effect on the variables under study. Significant differences were found between both moments for perception of susceptibility and OSH knowledge. However, no significant differences between both training methods after the intervention were observed in this study.

International benchmarking for performance improvement in construction safety and health

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 916-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance W. Saunders ◽  
Andrew P McCoy ◽  
Brian M. Kleiner ◽  
Helen Lingard ◽  
Tracy Cooke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Construction Safety ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Worker Safety ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Project Lifecycle

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge on the advantages of integrating safety earlier in the construction project lifecycle. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is used to collect data from construction sites in the USA, which performs poorly in construction safety and health, and Australia (AU), which performs well in construction safety and health. Qualitative data are collected to determine how and when safety is considered in the project lifecycle in both countries, and then the results are benchmarked to determine the benefits of addressing safety earlier in the process. Findings – Data show that addressing a potential hazard earlier in the project lifecycle has performance benefits in terms of the level of hazard control. Research limitations/implications – The processes that are identified as possibly explaining the performance difference are just based on qualitative data from interviews. Targeted research addressing the relationship between these processes and safety outcomes is an opportunity for further research. Practical implications – The case study data are used to identify specific processes that are used in AU that might be adopted in the USA to improve performance by integrating safety earlier into the decision-making process. Social implications – This paper highlights the advantages of integrating safety as a decision factor early in the process. Worker safety is not just an issue in the construction industry, and thus the findings are applicable to all industries in which worker safety is an issue. Originality/value – This paper advances the safety in design literature by quantitatively supporting the link between when a hazard is addressed and performance. It also links the results to specific processes across countries, which advances the literature because most research in this area to data is within a single country.

scholarly journals Avoiding Occupational Diseases in Industry by Adapting the Training Methods to the New Technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
Petru Iulian Mureșan ◽  
Ioan Milosan ◽  
Dorin Senchetru ◽  
Adrian Nicolae Reit
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
To Receive

The most common occupational diseases in the industry are mainly due to the non-compliance with the employer's obligation to provide appropriate training in the workplace. This is often performed only by signing training forms only formally. With this fact in mind, we analyze in this paper the occupational diseases in industry specific to Brașov County, presented in the reports of Brașov Labor Inspectorate, from 2005 to 2019. This study was conducted based on the number of occupational diseases due to silicosis, related to the total number of occupational diseases in Brașov County (study period between 2005 and 2019). Given the state of emergency generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to prevent the spread of this virus and to carry out activities using work from home, telework, and to avoid the interaction between workers as much as possible, online communication with employees is considered as being the only way that allows at the same time both the observance of the measures imposed to prevent the spread of the virus and the implementation of the obligations regarding training on occupational safety and health, which the employer has according to the laws in force. In this context, analyzing the values obtained from the experimental data (number of occupational diseases due to silicosis, related to the total number of occupational diseases in Brasov County) it is identified and solved in the paper the use of online environment, especially in remotely training the workers, who have the opportunity to receive training documents, analyze them, sign them electronically and send them to the employer in electronic format and in this way, being trained even in special situations.

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