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DOI: 10.7458/spp2014753577
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Perceptions of occupational risks in the railway sector

Abstract: The primary objective of this article is to present the results of research in an organisational context on the ways in which workers perceive risks linked to their work. The organisation observed by the author is an urban rail transport company, where staff run various types of risk. It was found that workers have heterogeneous perceptions of their occupational risks. However, this diversity ended up providing information that is quite useful for improving both knowledge about the risks in the organisation an… Show more

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“…The frequency of unsatisfactory RP, however, is of concern and has important implications. The lower the level of an individual's risk perception, the more likely s/he is to come to harm 21 , that is, these individuals are more likely to expose themselves to risks as they fail to perceive them.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The frequency of unsatisfactory RP, however, is of concern and has important implications. The lower the level of an individual's risk perception, the more likely s/he is to come to harm 21 , that is, these individuals are more likely to expose themselves to risks as they fail to perceive them.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Por este motivo, alguns riscos são mais valorizados em detrimento de outros. A percepção do risco ainda é influenciada pelo setor em que o profissional atua, seu tempo de atuação profissional e seu nível de instrução 16 . O achado de 56,45% de erros no reconhecimento do risco biológico justifica a preocupação de alguns pesquisadores com o tema.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…Esta temáti-ca tem vindo a ganhar alguma importância, particularmente quando os riscos dão origem a cenários de tensão social (sobretudo quando estamos perante níveis elevados de desemprego, precariedade, xenofobia ou desigualdades sociais), a desastres naturais, a acidentes industriais graves ou quando não existe consenso sobre os efeitos que eles (riscos) podem produzir. A problematização da aceitabilidade social dos riscos e os múltiplos factores que contribuem para formulação das percepções de riscos (Areosa, 2011;2012a;2014) …”
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