An unsafe behaviour formation mechanism based on risk perception

Huang, Lang; Chao, Wu; Wang, Bing; Qiumei, Ouyang; Lin, Huanhuan

doi:10.1002/hfm.20762

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“…The manuscript introduces the SOR theory into the field of behavioral safety and expands the application scope of this theory. Besides, the formation mechanism of unsafe behavior mainly aims to deeply explore the logical relationship between the concerned events and the causal factors ( Huang et al, 2019 ). This explanation of the random combination of influencing factors breaks through the limitations of the single factor analysis.…”

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“…This explanation of the random combination of influencing factors breaks through the limitations of the single factor analysis. In addition, previous studies on the formation process of unsafe behavior have been conducted from the perspective of cognition ( Fang et al, 2016 ), risk perception ( Huang et al, 2019 ), etc., and rarely from the perspective of motivation. Therefore, this study provides a new insight into how construction workers’ unsafe behavior occurs, which is a perfection and supplement to the existing literature.…”

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Formation Mechanism and Dynamic Evolution Laws About Unsafe Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on China’s Construction Industry: Application of Grounded Theory and System Dynamics

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Construction workers’ unsafe behavior is a major cause of safety accidents and injuries, therefore, a profound understanding of the formation process and evolution laws about construction workers’ unsafe behavior is conducive to taking measures to prevent incidents. At present, the new generation of construction workers (NGCWs) born after 1980 are gradually becoming the main force at construction sites in China. Given that generational differences of construction workers can cause the discrepancies in their thoughts and attitudes when engaging in safety-related activities, this study aims to investigate the formation mechanism and dynamic evolution laws about NGCWs’ unsafe behavior based on the context of China’s construction industry. From the perspective of behavior motivation, in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18 NGCWs and 7 grassroots managers were conducted, and data analysis followed a three-step coding process based on grounded theory. Through continuous comparison, abstraction and analysis, the stimulus-organism-response theory was introduced and expanded to construct a three-stage formation mechanism model. On this basis, the causal diagram and stock flow diagram were developed based on system dynamics principles to reflect the dynamic feedback relationships of the factors in the static formation mechanism model, and simulation was carried out using Vensim PLE software. The results show that three types of internal needs and three types of external incentives stimulate corresponding motivations for NGCWs’ unsafe behavior. Two types of individual factors, five types of situational factors and behavior result play an influencing role in the decision-making process of externalizing motivation into behavior. Under the synergistic effect of multiple factors, the level of unsafe behavior displays a downward trend, and the rate of decrease is slow first and then fast. Furthermore, among individual factors and situational factors, safety awareness and safety management system have the most significant effect on the level of unsafe behavior, while situational factors play a more obvious role. The findings can provide theoretical support and practical references to China’s construction companies and government departments for the purpose of improving NGCWs’ unsafe behavior.

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Formation Mechanism and Dynamic Evolution Laws About Unsafe Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on China’s Construction Industry: Application of Grounded Theory and System Dynamics

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Indeed, several accidents and MSDs have been recorded. In the absence of a real commitment to reduce risks and dangers at the workplace, this company tends to have poor safety and ergonomic performance in the medium term (Huang, Wu, Wang, Ouyang, & Lin, ; Hunsu, ).…”

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“…In the absence of a real commitment to F I G U R E 5 (a) Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) analysis with CATIA software. (b) Proposed solution for the dusting task reduce risks and dangers at the workplace, this company tends to have poor safety and ergonomic performance in the medium term (Huang, Wu, Wang, Ouyang, & Lin, 2018;Hunsu, 2014).…”

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Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Sebti

Boulila

Hamza

2019

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Railway truck maintenance plays a crucial role for rail transport. It aims at ensuring the availability of the equipment and the safety of the operations. However, maintenance activities often involve uncommon work and nonroutine tasks and it is obvious that maintenance operators are more threatened than other employees to be exposed to various hazards in their workplace. In Tunisia, the prevalence of occupational accidents and injuries among maintenance workers is not well documented. The target of this cross‐sectional study is to assess ergonomics risks associated with maintenance activities in a railway company. Data collection was carried out through a self‐administrated questionnaire and via direct observations. The Body Parts Symptom Survey (BPSS) was used to identify the discomfort level of the workers. More than 100 maintenance operators working in nine different workshops were involved in this study. From BPSS results, this paper proposed a new method to calculate the discomfort index related to each body part in order to calculate the global discomfort index (GDI) for each workshop. Results showed that the most hazardous workshop was rail‐car maintenance workshop (GDI = 43.06). Four main tasks were assessed with normalized score. Final scores were found to be extremely high. To remedy the raised problems, new adjustable workstations were proposed, which showed a considerable improvement on workers’ postures.

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“…In addition, it may be possible to explain this finding from the perspective of risk perception. When workers are in an unconventional environment of dangerous chemicals or in the face of abnormal mechanical equipment, they often have fear psychology, which can easily cause unsafe behavior among workers [42].…”

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Cause Analysis of Unsafe Behaviors in Hazardous Chemical Accidents: Combined with HFACs and Bayesian Network

Liu

Liu³

2019

IJERPH

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Hazardous chemical accidents (HCAs) seriously endanger public life, property, and health. Human and organizational factors are important causes of many kinds of accidents. In order to systematically explore the influencing factors of unsafe behaviors in HCAs in China, the method of human factors analysis and classification system based on the Bayesian network (BN-HFACs) was introduced. According to the 39 investigation reports of HCAs in China, the origin Bayesian network (BN) was obtained and the failure sensitivity of every node in BN was calculated. The results have shown that hazardous material environment (1.63) and mechanical equipment (0.49) in the level of preconditions of unsafe behavior have the same direction failure effect with operation error, while there is no factor has the same direction failure effect with operation violate. Some factors in organization influence and unsafe supervision, such as organization climate (0.34), operation guidance (0.37), planned operation (0.22), and legal supervision (0.19), are also important reasons for operational errors, while resource management (0.12), hidden investigation (0.18) and legal supervision (0.13) have an impact on operation violates. Moreover, there are still close relationships between other hierarchical elements, such as the operation guidance effect on the hazardous material environment (6.60), and the organizational climate has the most obvious impact on other factors at the level of organizational factors. Based on the above research conclusions, suggestions for individual, enterprise, and government were put forward, respectively, and the limitations of this study were also clarified.

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An unsafe behaviour formation mechanism based on risk perception

Cited by 13 publications

References 56 publications

Formation Mechanism and Dynamic Evolution Laws About Unsafe Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on China’s Construction Industry: Application of Grounded Theory and System Dynamics

Formation Mechanism and Dynamic Evolution Laws About Unsafe Behavior of New Generation of Construction Workers Based on China’s Construction Industry: Application of Grounded Theory and System Dynamics

Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Cause Analysis of Unsafe Behaviors in Hazardous Chemical Accidents: Combined with HFACs and Bayesian Network

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