Showing papers in "Safety Science in 2008"

TL;DR: This paper conducted interviews with workers who had been accident victims and found that workers were involved in unsafe behavior because of: a lack of safety awareness; to exhibit of being 'tough guys'; work pressure; co-workers' attitudes; and other organizational, economic and psychological factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified 16 critical success factors of safety programs from safety literature and previous research and these were thereafter validated by construction safety professionals through questionnaire surveys with 80 respondents from medium and large-scale construction projects taking part.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a concise description of the current framework, followed by an extension into a multi-level framework that identifies organization-level and group-level safety climates as distinct constructs with separate measurement scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors confirm the findings of a previous study, which revealed a link between construction site fatalities and the design for construction safety concept, and further evidence of design's influence on construction site safety.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a Bayesian network (BN) based model, establishing a probabilistic relational network among causal factors, including safety climate factors and personal experience factors that have influences on human behavior pertinent to construction safety.

TL;DR: It is argued that while barriers are necessary, they basically represent a reactive approach which is insufficient by itself to guarantee safety.

TL;DR: In this article, a simulation framework is developed to generate data from the Poisson-gamma distributions using different values describing the mean, the dispersion parameter, the sample size, and the prior specification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the dimensionality of safety climate, tested a hypothesis of sharedness among members in a social unit as a characteristic of safety, and tested the predictive validity of the safety climate with regard to safety behaviour.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the psychosocial chain of safety influences among the safety responses and the perceived probability of accidents and found that in both general and construction samples, OSR and SSR are strongly related, as are CSR and WSR.

TL;DR: This paper presents the (theoretical) core of the advanced sustainable safety vision: the aims of preventing crashes, and where this is not possible, to reduce the chance of severe injury to (almost) zero.

TL;DR: The weights of factors and sub-factors necessary to calculate the faulty behavior risk (FBR) are determined by using fuzzy ANP and by this way it was possible to make better decisions in this process.

TL;DR: The results show that there are some patterns of occupational injuries in the construction industry and a direction for more effective inspection strategies and injury prevention programs is provided.

TL;DR: A 6-item measure that assesses global work safety climate was validated using multiple samples each from a hospital and a nuclear energy population across all 14 samples the 6item measure had acceptable internal consistency The measure was associated with better adherence to safe work practices, reduced exposure to environmental stressors, the presence of more safety policies and procedures, a positive general organizational climate, and decreased accidents as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The concept of "safety culture" has been widely discussed in the management literature as discussed by the authors, but there is little common understanding of the concept and there is a great disagreement among management experts on important issues.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework to ensure that an occupational health and safety management system (OHS MS) has been carefully constructed and customised to the individual organisation is presented here to bring together the merits of the three main control strategies that have emerged for dealing with workplace hazards namely: safe place, safe person and safe systems as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the psychometric qualities of a questionnaire (Norwegian offshore risk and safety climate inventory) and whether employee perceptions of safety climate changed over time, based on two surveys carried out on all offshore oil personnel in 2001 and 2003.

TL;DR: The challenge of converting the health and safety systems to accommodate a multi national/ cultural workforce is being addressed using initiatives such as, translation of health andSafety materials, use of interpreters and an increased use of visual methods for communicating health andsafety messages.

TL;DR: Safety awareness, competence, and safety communication are important factors in safety climate measurement in Chinese industry with this 21-item questionnaire, which is valid and reliable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored trends in the rates of occupational injuries in different sectors of Italian industries in the period 2000-2004 are explored, contrasting direct employment and temporary work, highlighting the interaction between injury frequency index (FI) and the characteristics of the labour force.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the implementation of OHS management systems and the OHSAS 18001 in the construction industry and found that OHS status was not satisfactory based on data of recorded accidents from construction activities over the past three years.

TL;DR: In this paper, five safety management practices (process transparency, safety planning, proactive performance measurement, accident investigations, and identification and monitoring of pressures and performance migrations) are improved and reinterpreted based on three CSE principles: flexibility, learning and awareness.

TL;DR: Accident analysis revealed that the windshield and its surrounding frames were the main sources of head injury for adult pedestrians and reconstruction results indicated that coup/contrecoup pressure, Von Mises and shear stress were important physical parameters to estimate brain injury risks.

TL;DR: In this article, the significance of psychological climate for occupational safety has been investigated, and the results showed that psychological climate has direct and indirect relations to safety behaviour, and safety motivation and safety knowledge were found to be key mediators in explaining these relations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between perceived organizational support and health support from supervisors and workmates, and safety citizenship behaviour (SCB) in offshore employees, and found that high levels of support reflecting care in the organization about employee well-being will lead to more positive safety behaviour in the workforce.

TL;DR: In this paper, the present status of industrial HSE management in a number of EU member states is reviewed, with a focus on the integration of health, safety and environment in single management systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the opinions, attitudes and perceptions of construction workers on the skills, knowledge, and behaviours that contribute to safety culture and find that workers see the four most influential safety critical positions to be at construction site level and not at "head office".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed injury severity models for different collision-types conditioned on crash occurrence at T-junctions in the UK, and the data for the model estimation were extracted from the STATS19 accident injury database (1991-2004).

TL;DR: The results suggest, that the speed on stairs does not only vary greatly depending on the length of the stairway, but also that there is no common scaling factor for thespeed on stairs in dependence of thelength of the stairs for the whole population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the operator's mental workload and work performance of the fourth nuclear power plant (FNPP) in Taiwan and developed a work performance predictive model to provide control room operators a reference value of their work performance by giving physiological indices.