Organizational factors influencing serious occupational accidents.

Salminen, Simo; Saari, Jorma; Saarela, Kaija Leena; Räsänen, Tuula

doi:10.5271/sjweh.1463

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“…Em geral, esse tipo de empresa conta com pouco ou nenhum recurso material e humano para a promoção da segurança do trabalhador. Além disso, ao utilizarem métodos e processos de trabalho inadequados e equipamentos obsoletos 5,13,19 elevam ainda mais o risco de acidentes de trabalho na empresa.…”

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Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha), no período de 1992-1993

Sampaio

Martín

Artazcoz³

et al. 1998

Rev. Saúde Pública

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INTRODUÇÃO: As estatísticas dos acidentes de trabalho, como qualquer outro sistema de notificação, devem servir de base para determinar prioridades e decidir quais medidas preventivas devem ser adotadas. Neste contexto, o objetivo do estudo é aprofundar a análise dos acidentes de trabalho através da utilização de técnicas estatísticas descritivas que permitam estabelecer a relação entre o número de acidentes de trabalho ocorridos em Barcelona (Espanha) e as variáveis tipo de acidente, setor econômico, tamanho da empresa e tipo de contrato. MÉTODO: Como fonte de dados foi utilizado o sistema de notificação de acidentes graves e mortais ocorridos na cidade de Barcelona (Espanha), entre 1992 e 1993. Foram examinados 848 registros de acidentes de trabalho em trabalhadores do sexo masculino e a partir desses dados efetuou-se uma análise mediante modelos log-lineares. RESULTADOS E CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados evidenciam que os acidentes traumáticos e o setor de construção têm uma associação positiva, verificada, da mesma forma, entre os acidentes de trânsito e o setor de serviços. Os acidentes traumáticos e de trânsito apresentaram uma associação com as pequenas empresas e os acidentes não traumáticos demonstraram associar-se com as grandes empresas. Verificou-se, ainda, associação entre os trabalhadores temporais e o setor da construção frente aos trabalhadores com contrato fixo, em que se constatou uma associação com os setores de indústria e de serviços. Foi verificada associação positiva entre os acidentes ocorridos com os trabalhadores temporais e as pequenas e médias empresas.

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Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha), no período de 1992-1993

Sampaio

Martín

Artazcoz³

et al. 1998

Rev. Saúde Pública

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“…In such organizations, it is likely that the egoist climates place pressures on employees for production and profitability. Furthermore, those behaviors contributing to short-run production goals and efficiency are more likely to receive immediate extrinsic reward than safety-compliance behaviors (Salminen et al, 1993;Wright, 1986). In contrast, safety-compliance behaviors are seldom acknowledged in such climates.…”

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Ethical Climates and Workplace Safety Behaviors: An Empirical Investigation

Parboteeah

Kapp

2007

J Bus Ethics

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In this article, the important but neglected link between workplace safety-enhancing behavior and ethics is explored. Using data from 237 employees from five manufacturing plants in the Midwest, we investigated how specific local ethical climate types are linked to incidences of injuries and two types of safety-enhancing behaviors: safety compliance and safety participation. It was hypothesized that egoist climates are positively related to injuries and negatively related to safety-enhancing behaviors. In contrast, it is proposed that both benevolent and principled climates have negative relationships with injuries and positive relationships with safety-enhancing behaviors. Results provided support only for our principled climate types while benevolence has the desired negative relationship with injuries. Egoism and benevolence are not related to safety-enhancing behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications of findings are discussed.

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“…as the risk of a fatality is 13 times higher for males than for females in nine studies (Salminen, Saari, Saarela, & Räsänen, 1992). Another review based on 15 different studies indicated that the average injury frequency of males is 3.0 times higher than that of females (Messing, Courville, Boucher, Dumais, & Seifert, 1994).…”

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Individual and Organizational Factors of Safe Behaviour among Ghanaian Industrial Workers

Salminen¹,

Gyekye²,

Ojajärvi³

2013

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The aim of this study is to compare individual and organizational factors as predictors of accident frequency. Four hypotheses based on the literature were presented: 1) both individual and organizational factors contribute to accident frequency, 2) individual factors have more impact than organizational factors, 3) both Organizational citizenship behaviour and Perceived organizational support are positively associated with safety behaviour, and 4) among the four organizational factors, Perceived organisational support has the most impact. The participants were 320 Ghanaian industrial workers from textile factories, breweries and mines. Organizational safety climate was measured using the 50-item Workplace Safety Scale. Organizational citizenship behaviour, Perceived organizational support and job satisfaction were measured by standardised scales. Individual factors were gender, age, education, marital status and job tenure. The respondents reported their accidents during the past 12 months. Models were tested using Structural Equation Modelling: Both individual and organizational factors contributed to accident frequency supporting hypothesis 1. Hypothesis 2 was rejected as organizational factors were more strongly related to accident frequency than individual factors. Organizational citizenship behaviour and Perceived organizational support were positively associated with safety performances as Hypothesis 3 suggested. In line with Hypothesis 4 the strongest predictor of safety behaviour was Perceived organizational support. This study showed that both individual and organizational factors are contributory for accident process. However, the influence of organizational factors was stronger than that of individual factors. Implications for safety in Ghanaian organizations were discussed.

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Organizational factors influencing serious occupational accidents.

Cited by 62 publications

References 17 publications

Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha), no período de 1992-1993

Acidentes de trabalho em Barcelona (Espanha), no período de 1992-1993

Ethical Climates and Workplace Safety Behaviors: An Empirical Investigation

Individual and Organizational Factors of Safe Behaviour among Ghanaian Industrial Workers

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