Assessing Hazard Identification in Surface Stone Mines in a Virtual Environment

Bellanca, Jennica L.; Orr, Timothy J.; Helfrich, William; MacDonald, Brendan D.; Navoyski, Jason; Eiter, Brianna M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-41627-4_20

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“…The goal was to create panoramic images that were realistic and accurately reflected hazards and situations that mineworkers encounter during their workday. Other publications provide a more detailed explanation of the panoramic images and the hazards within them (e.g., [ 1 , 26 ]).…”

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The Impact of Job, Site, and Industry Experience on Worker Health and Safety

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Hoebbel

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Safety

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A debate exists about the impact of mineworker experience on health and safety (H&S). Studies often assert that length of time on the job (tenure) is negatively associated with accidents (i.e., new employees have a higher accident rate). However, inferences are all made based on reported incidents, whereas we know that underreporting is a problem in high-risk occupations. To that end, this study sought to examine how worker experience may impact a variety of H&S outcomes on the job. Comprised of three separate case studies with different H&S outcome variables, researchers broke down the results of several data sets that were collected from 3400 miners who worked in either underground coal, surface sand, stone, and gravel, or metal/non-metal to reveal any underlying trends among differing levels of experience on a specific job, with a specific company, and in the mining industry. Each case study is described in turn, using Kruskall-Wallis tests to determine the impact miners' experience on hazard recognition accuracy (Case 1), self-escape confidence (Case 2), and safety compliance (Case 3). The results show that workers with more job experience possess higher levels of perceived health and safety skills, including the identification of hazards on the job. We discuss the impact of experience on several predictors of incidents, including perceived job knowledge and hazard identification, and perceived compliance on the job. Practitioners can expect to gain a greater understanding of their workforce, including actual differences and similarities to consider, when communicating pieces of their health and safety management system to training workers of all experience levels.

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The Impact of Job, Site, and Industry Experience on Worker Health and Safety

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Eiter

Hoebbel

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Safety

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“…Hazards were staged to the extent possible and otherwise edited or enhanced. See Eiter et al [18] for a discussion of the hazard selection and panoramic image evaluation process and Bellanca et al [27] for a detailed explanation of the methods taken to create the panoramic images. Figure 1 depicts an example panoramic image of the pit along with two representative hazards.…”

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Identify the Influence of Risk Attitude, Work Experience, and Safety Training on Hazard Recognition in Mining

Eiter

Bellanca

2020

Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

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Mineworkers face a challenging and dynamic work environment every workday. To maintain a safe workplace, mineworkers must be able to recognize worksite hazards while they perform their jobs. Though hazard recognition is a critical skill, recent research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) indicates that mineworkers fail to identify a significant number of hazards. To further the understanding of mineworkers' hazard recognition ability and to begin to address hazard recognition performance, NIOSH researchers analyzed data collected during a laboratory research study to determine the effect of individual mineworker factors including risk attitude, work experience, and safety training on hazard recognition accuracy. The results of this study show that mineworker risk attitude and safety-specific work experience affect hazard recognition performance while hazard-specific safety training does not. These results suggest that some of these individual factors can be overcome through experience and training. Potential strategies that can be used to address these factors are also discussed.

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