The current research emerged in response to recent alerts of increasing organisational safety failures in New Zealand’s high risk industries. It was theorized that safety climate may be largely determined by the quality of safety-centered leadership under which an organisation operates. The study utilized reports of organisational safety prosecutions within New Zealand to develop a quasi-experimental design which compared persecuted and non-prosecuted company’s leaders on measures of ethical values, moral philosophy, social responsibility, corporate psychopathy, and leadership style. Issues of response rate inherent to the study design were encountered during data collection, and no significant between group differences consistent with the study predictions were found. Theoretical and practical interpretations are made in light of the results, suggesting that dynamics within group-decision processes and the top governing structure of companies may be significant factors in affecting leader safety performances within these industries.

While the literature surrounding the negative effects of stress on health and well-being is plentiful, there is a distinct lack of research applying stress frameworks to an organisational safety context. This study investigated the impact of stressors and strains on safety in the workplace, using the Job Demand-Control model as a research framework. In order to maintain a proactive approach to safety management, safety climate, safety compliance and safety participation were used as study variables as they have been established as antecedents to accidents and injuries in the workplace. From questionnaire data from employees with regular safety issues it was found that a positive relationship exists between safety climate and safety behaviours. Satisfaction was found to mediate the relationship between safety climate and one dimension of the safety compliance measure used. Providing support for the buffer hypothesis of the Job Demand-Control model, safety control moderated the relationship between safety climate and safety participation. Control over work scheduling, and decision latitude moderated the relationship between safety climate and safety participation but were indicative of an enhancing effect, rather than a buffering effect. The results suggest that control is an important variable to consider in terms of safety.

The reduction of workplace accidents and improvement of workplace safety is a concern for most mining houses. Pressure from the labour movement and legislative requirements do not make the burden any lighter. There are circumstances directly and indirectly relating to accidents and therefore a need to obtain an in-depth analysis of underlying causes of accidents in order to draw relevant conclusions exists. There are workplace environmental matters as well as individual attitudinal issues that need to be addressed. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship of work stress and job insecurity with safety compliance, job satisfaction and commitment in a mine. A cross-sectional survey design was used with an availability sample (n=158). A survey booklet including a biographical questionnaire, scales on job insecurity, job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment, workplace accidents and safety compliance as well as a work stress measure comprising dimensions of role clarity, conflict and overload was administered. The results indicated that when miners experience work stress and job insecurity, their safety compliance is low. Job satisfaction was found to be a positive predictor of safety compliance among miners. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

The reduction of workplace accidents and improvement of workplace safety is a concern for most mining houses. Pressure from the labour movement and legislative requirements do not make the burden any lighter. There are circumstances directly and indirectly relating to accidents and therefore a need to obtain an in-depth analysis of underlying causes of accidents in order to draw relevant conclusions exists. There are workplace environmental matters as well as individual attitudinal issues that need to be addressed. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship of work stress and job insecurity with safety compliance, job satisfaction and commitment in a mine. A cross-sectional survey design was used with an availability sample (n=158). A survey booklet including a biographical questionnaire, scales on job insecurity, job satisfaction, affective organisational commitment, workplace accidents and safety compliance as well as a work stress measure comprising dimensions of role clarity, conflict and overload was administered. The results indicated that when miners experience work stress and job insecurity, their safety compliance is low. Job satisfaction was found to be a positive predictor of safety compliance among miners. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

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Para investigar estes aspectos em uma instituição hospitalar foi realizado um estudo transversal com metodologia quantitativa e qualitativa adotando como base teórico-metodológica a visão sistêmica das organizações de trabalho e o MAPA como instrumento norteador para análise dos dados, com o objetivo de compreender concepções de segurança no trabalho e a aprendizagem organizacional dela decorrente neste hospital público de alta complexidade do interior paulista. Como principal fonte de dados foram utilizados 441 registros de acidentes de trabalho ocorridos de primeiro de março de 2010 a vinte e sete de março de 2013, notificados em duas instituições distintas de acordo com os vínculos empregatícios dos funcionários. Houve ainda uma etapa de re análise do conteúdo das recomendações de segurança e das causas identificadas para os acidentes. Essas informações foram divididas em categorias semelhantes de acordo com conteúdo. Ainda na re análise os registros foram revistos ensejando categorização de análises como usos ou não das noções de análise de barreiras e de mudanças. A segunda fonte de dados utilizada foram entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas com diretores dos dois SESMTs atuantes na instituição. Com base nos dados coletados foi possível identificar os acidentes típicos e ocorridos no período da manhã como sendo os mais prevalentes e ainda traçar um perfil da população que mais sofre acidente de trabalho no hospital, sendo esta, mulheres integrantes da equipe de enfermagem com idade entre 31 e 40 anos que trabalham em regime de turno. No que se refere às análises dos acidentes a abordagem tradicionalista foi prevalente. Em 65% dos casos identificaram apenas uma causa para o AT, o que indica uma visão limitada da complexidade do trabalho e ainda pouco mais de 51% fizeram recomendações de segurança para prevenir novos AT sendo que estas eram em sua maioria centradas no comportamento dos funcionários. 131 registros foram classificados como de uso da noção de análise de barreiras, 140 referiram análises de mudanças e outros 144 não apresentavam análise que possibilitasse uma classificação. A gestão fragmentada das ocorrências de AT e o andamento das análises são feitos de forma prejudiciais para o olhar sistêmico dos casos, visto que os AT ocorrem em um mesmo local de trabalho e são analisados por estâncias diferentes que não mantém fluxo estabelecido de contato. É possível então afirmar que o tratamento institucional dado às informações de análise de acidentes, no período estudado, não favorece iniciativas de aprendizagem para a organização e incentivo à cultura de segurança. / The employee health actions include health-labor relations in all its complexity impacting on health promotion, illness prevention, changes in the working process, accidents’ prevention and a safety culture establishment. In order to investigate these aspects in a hospital, a crosssectional study, based on a quantitative and qualitative methodology, adopting theoretical and methodological basis of a systemic view of the labor organizations and using MAPA (Portuguese acronym for analysis and prevention of occupational accidents model) as a guiding instrument for data analysis, was conducted in order to understand conceptions of safety and organizational learning resulting there from this public hospital of high complexity in São Paulo State. The main data source used was a record of 441 occupational accidents occurred from March 1st, 2010 to March 27th, 2013 reported by two different institutions according to employment contracts. There was a security recommendation and identified accidents' causes reanalysis - they were categorized accordingly to their content and reviewed by the existence of barriers and changes’ analysis.The second data source was from semistructured interviews with directors of the two active Specialized Services in Occupational Health and Safety in this institution. Based on the collected data, it could be possible to identify typical accidents and the ones occurred by the morning as the majority and a profile of who most suffers injuries of occupational accidents in the hospital could be traced - women from the nursery team aged between 31 and 40 years old which work on shifts. Regarding the accident analysis, the traditionalist approach was prevalent, 65% identified just one cause for the AT (acronym for occupational accidents), which indicates a limited view of the job complexity and about 51% provided security recommendation in order to avoid new ATs, which are mainly focused on employees' behavior) 131 records were categorized as using barriers’ analysis, 140 as using changes’ analysis and other 140 records were unable to be categorized. The fragmented management of occurrences of AT and the progress of the analyzes are made from harmful way to look systemic cases, as the learning organization occurs in the same workplace and are analyzed by different offices that do not maintain contact established flow. It can be inferred that the institutional treatment for accident analysis data, in the study period, is not conducive for learning initiatives and safety culture establishment for the organization.

Orientador: Ildeberto Muniz de Almeida / Resumo: As ações de saúde do trabalhador contemplam relações saúde-trabalho em toda a sua complexidade influenciando na promoção da saúde, prevenção de adoecimento, mudanças em processo de trabalho, prevenção de acidentes e solidificação da cultura de segurança. Para investigar estes aspectos em uma instituição hospitalar foi realizado um estudo transversal com metodologia quantitativa e qualitativa adotando como base teórico-metodológica a visão sistêmica das organizações de trabalho e o MAPA como instrumento norteador para análise dos dados, com o objetivo de compreender concepções de segurança no trabalho e a aprendizagem organizacional dela decorrente neste hospital público de alta complexidade do interior paulista. Como principal fonte de dados foram utilizados 441 registros de acidentes de trabalho ocorridos de primeiro de março de 2010 a vinte e sete de março de 2013, notificados em duas instituições distintas de acordo com os vínculos empregatícios dos funcionários. Houve ainda uma etapa de re análise do conteúdo das recomendações de segurança e das causas identificadas para os acidentes. Essas informações foram divididas em categorias semelhantes de acordo com conteúdo. Ainda na re análise os registros foram revistos ensejando categorização de análises como usos ou não das noções de análise de barreiras e de mudanças. A segunda fonte de dados utilizada foram entrevistas semi-estruturadas realizadas com diretores dos dois SESMTs atuantes na ins... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The employee health actions include health-labor relations in all its complexity impacting on health promotion, illness prevention, changes in the working process, accidents’ prevention and a safety culture establishment. In order to investigate these aspects in a hospital, a crosssectional study, based on a quantitative and qualitative methodology, adopting theoretical and methodological basis of a systemic view of the labor organizations and using MAPA (Portuguese acronym for analysis and prevention of occupational accidents model) as a guiding instrument for data analysis, was conducted in order to understand conceptions of safety and organizational learning resulting there from this public hospital of high complexity in São Paulo State. The main data source used was a record of 441 occupational accidents occurred from March 1st, 2010 to March 27th, 2013 reported by two different institutions according to employment contracts. There was a security recommendation and identified accidents' causes reanalysis - they were categorized accordingly to their content and reviewed by the existence of barriers and changes’ analysis.The second data source was from semistructured interviews with directors of the two active Specialized Services in Occupational Health and Safety in this institution. Based on the collected data, it could be possible to identify typical accidents and the ones occurred by the morning as the majority and a profile of who most s... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

In aviation safety incident reports, lack of situation awareness (SA) is often attributed as the cause of negative safety outcomes, such as accidents. While the predominant model of SA has identified three components of SA, perception, comprehension, and projection, assumptions of their relationships with each other and external criteria are yet tested empirically. Specifically, SA theory suggests comprehension SA fully mediates the relationship between perception and projection SA. Additionally, research on the relationships between individual differences and SA is lacking. The purpose of the current study is to test a comprehensive model of SA which simultaneously examines the described mediation, relationships with individual differences antecedents of SA, and its utility as a predictor of safety using structural equation modeling (SEM). A sample of 349 employees from a diverse background of occupational areas were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk to test the model. While self-report measurement of SA was an excellent predictor of safety, the current study did not find empirical support for the presumed mediation among the SA components, and found the relationships between individual differences and SA which contradict extant SA theory. The results suggest differentiating between typical versus maximal SA. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Despite the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) more than 30 years ago, the construction industry is in conflict with itself. It is locked in a struggle to effectively keep its workforce protected from unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, or a combination of both. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nearly 6.5 million people work at approximately 252,000 construction sites across the United States every day, with the fatal injury rate for the construction industry higher than the national average when compared to all industries. There have been many studies documenting these conditions, but no study has examined leadership styles and their impact on the climate of safety. This study examined the relationship between management’s leadership style and the perception of a climate of safety; the relationship between workers’ perception of leadership style and the perception of a climate of safety; and the relationship between the size of the workforce, the manager’s leadership style, and the perception regarding the climate of safety. The outcomes contribute to the field of conflict resolution as they offer the ability to move from incongruities regarding perceived worker safety to discussions and solutions that are aimed at influencing those policies and procedures at the organizational level that will ensure that a construction worker can perform his or her job free from dangerous work conditions.

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O trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar e propor a utilização de soluções tecnológicas que permitam a redução dos riscos causados por arcos elétricos nas instalações de uma unidade industrial com sistema isolado de geração elétrica. Por ser extremamente danosa à segurança das pessoas que interagem com uma instalação elétrica e por causar danos significativos aos equipamentos e instalações, a energia incidente, proveniente de um arco elétrico, deve ser mensurada em conformidade com as normas existentes e os riscos devem ser controlados e mitigados, de maneira a não comprometer a integridade física das pessoas e das instalações. Dessa forma, o presente trabalho propõe alterações no sistema de proteção e a inserção de dispositivos dedicados à identificação de arcos elétricos no interior de painéis da unidade em questão, contribuindo significativamente para a redução da energia incidente liberada na ocorrência de um arco elétrico. Essa redução da energia incidente é conseguida devido à redução do tempo para eliminação da falta, necessitando, dessa forma, de dispositivos e relés de proteção voltados exclusivamente para a proteção contra arco elétrico. / This dissertation aims to evaluate and propose the use of technological solutions that enable the reduction of risks caused by arc flash on the premises of an industrial unit with insulated system of electricity generation. It may be extremely damaging to the safety of people who interact with electrical installations and could cause significant damage to the equipment and facilities, the incident energy from an arc flash should be measured in accordance with existing standards, their risks must be controlled and attenuated, in order not to compromise the physical integrity of people and facilities. That way, this paper proposes changes into the system of protection and the insertion of devices dedicated to the identification of arc flashes inside panels of the unit concerned, contributing significantly to the reduction of incident energy released in the event of an arc flash. This reduction is obtained by lowering the time for the elimination of absence, requiring, therefore, devices and protective relays devoted exclusively to protect against electric arc.