The importance of common sense: How Norwegian coastal fishermen deal with occupational risk

Thorvaldsen, Trine

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.02.007

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“…The workers of the present study stated that common sense is important during their work. Similarly, in a study of Norwegian fishermen it was shown that instead of complying with safety rules, they rather trusted their common sense to work safely (Thorvaldsen, 2013). The company investigated in the present study, as introduced earlier in the study context section, is compliant with established legislations and standards.…”

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Safety culture and reasons for risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company: Investigating the worker perspective

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a b s t r a c tWorkers in the steel-manufacturing industry face many safety risks due to the nature of the job. How well safety procedures and regulations are followed within an organization is considered to be influenced by the reigning culture of the organization. The aim of this study was to investigate and describe safety culture and risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company in Sweden by exploring workers' experiences and perceptions of safety and risks. Ten focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 66 workers. In the interviews, the situation of safety at work was discussed in a semi-structured manner. The material was analyzed inductively using qualitative content analysis. The analysis resulted in a thorough description of safety culture and risk-taking at the company, based on the following five main categories: 1. Acceptance of risks, one simply has to accept the safety risks of the work environment, 2. Individual responsibility for safety, the responsibility for safe procedures rests to the largest extent on the individual, 3. Trade-off between productivity and safety, these are conflicting entities, wanting to produce as well as wanting to work safely, 4. Importance of communication, it is needed for safety actions to be effective, and 5. State-of-the-day and external conditions, an interplay between these factors affect risk-taking. In sociotechnical systems theory it is acknowledged that there are interactions between social and technical factors in organizations. The findings of this study are interpreted to be in line with a sociotechnical understanding of safety culture and risk-taking.

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Safety culture and reasons for risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company: Investigating the worker perspective

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“…This study The fish processing industry in several country have produced musculo skeletal disorder, i.e: Swedia [1 -4], United States [5,6], Egypt [7], Malaysia [8], Canada [9], and Norway [10,11]. Among those processing are small-scale industry [12].…”

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Ergonomics smoke machine for indigenous people in Indonesia

Nurmianto

2018

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract.A participatory process is used in the design of a user-centered smoke machine, resulting in lasting benefits to the community. This program of IbM (Science and Technology for Society) has designed fish fumes that are mobile, portable and environmentally ergonomic, applying appropriate technology about fumigation so as to increase knowledge to the community. This program improve people skills especially in smoked fish production, increase employment in the field of fishery products processing business. With this activity can grow the interest of the community to entrepreneurship for those who have not started a business and will increase its business for those who have started the processing business of fishery processing. Benefits derived from IbM (Science and Technology for Society) program are, among others, reduced air pollution caused by open fish curing system so that air quality environment, especially around fish processing SMEs to be better, can support and strengthen fish processing industry in the coastal area that began to grow and especially support local SMEs, increase the quantity and quality of patents that can be generated from community service activities funded by Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Technology Research and Higher Education, Republic of Indonesia.

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“…Indeed, as evinced by the examples presented in this paper, the non-scientist’s CS may do much better. A very recent study [ 114 ], in which it was argued that partially due to “common sense” Norwegian fishermen did not see a need to formalize regulations to improve their safety, underscores this point. Following up CS leads, backed by rigorous research, may ultimately contribute to a better understanding and control of the natural and man-made world around us.…”

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Common sense: folk wisdom that ethnobiological and ethnomedical research cannot afford to ignore

Erren

Koch

Meyer-Rochow

2013

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Common sense [CS], especially that of the non-scientist, can have predictive power to identify promising research avenues, as humans anywhere on Earth have always looked for causal links to understand, shape and control the world around them. CS is based on the experience of many individuals and is thus believed to hold some truths. Outcomes predicted by CS are compatible with observations made by whole populations and have survived tests conducted by a plethora of non-scientists. To explore our claim, we provide 4 examples of empirical insights (relevant to probably all ethnic groups on Earth) into causal phenomena predicted by CS: (i) “humans must have a sense of time”, (ii) “at extreme latitudes, more people have the winter blues”, (iii) “sleep is a cure for many ills” and (iv) “social networks affect health and disease”. While CS is fallible, it should not be ignored by science – however improbable or self-evident the causal relationships predicted by CS may appear to be.

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The importance of common sense: How Norwegian coastal fishermen deal with occupational risk

Cited by 34 publications

References 9 publications

Safety culture and reasons for risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company: Investigating the worker perspective

Safety culture and reasons for risk-taking at a large steel-manufacturing company: Investigating the worker perspective

Ergonomics smoke machine for indigenous people in Indonesia

Common sense: folk wisdom that ethnobiological and ethnomedical research cannot afford to ignore

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