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This study interviewed a number of senior managers with a client and contractor in engineering construction on a range of health and safety issues. This included accident reporting systems, behaviour and near misses, performance indicators and auditing, and health monitoring. It’s over 20 years old, but interesting to see how many things don’t seem to… Continue reading The quality of accident and health data in the construction industry: Interviews with senior managers

This was really interesting. It studied CEO investment style on workplace safety. Two styles were included: underconfident and overconfident CEOS. Underconfident CEOs are those that are less certain about future company value or performance and thus underinvest in order to maximise short-term value. Underinvestment has been shown to contribute to workplace accidents. Underinvestment can involve… Continue reading Safety First – Overconfident CEOs and Reduced Workplace Accidents

[This is an update and repost of an older post, which had a different format back then] ABSTRACT “As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of the Challenger Disaster (January 28, 2016), how do we continue to educate current and future leaders on how to make decisions that involve significant risk and uncertainty with the lessons… Continue reading New Ways to Learn from the Challenger Disaster: Almost 30 Years Later

This study used a content analysis approach to compare management stakeholders’ perspectives on procedures versus that of operators, with a focus to reveal differences between work-as-imagined (WAI) and work-as-done (WAD). Both groups were asked questions like: what percentage of the time they thought operators departed from procedures, reasons for procedural departures, definitions of what a… Continue reading Where Two Ends Meet – operator and stakeholder perceptions of procedures

This study was a meta-analysis that systematically evaluated evidence on the effects of workplace safety training interventions on: safety performance antecedents (safety motivation, knowledge, climate) and safety performance (safety compliance and participation). This study was a meta-analysis that systematically evaluated evidence on the effects of workplace safety training interventions on: safety performance antecedents (safety motivation,… Continue reading The effects of industry risk level on safety training outcomes: A meta-analysis of intervention studies

This extensively explored the factors behind >23k fall accidents in the US construction industry over a 20-year period. I’ll cover just a few items because there’s way too many findings to cover (there’s tables and tables of data relating to contributing factors like age, experience, project size, time of day, activity, fall parameters etc), so… Continue reading Causal factors and risk assessment of fall accidents in the U.S. construction industry: A comprehensive data analysis (2000–2020)

This explored the relationships between implementing and using Human Performance Improvement (HPI) concepts & tools and Organisational Learning (OL) concepts on improving safety management performance in the workplace. [Note – this is a highly dense paper with a lot of nuance in its research justification and methodology, so I can only scratch the surface.] HPI… Continue reading Effects of Human Performance Improvement and Operational Learning on Organisational Safety Culture and Occupational Safety and Health Management Performance

Another study exploring accident under-reporting, based on survey of 425 workers across five above-average risk of incidents and injury industries. Some previous research was highlighted, where up to 68% of all workplace accidents and injuries went unreported in the OSHA national reporting system. Other data from the same author found that nearly 78% of experienced… Continue reading Accident under-reporting among employees: Testing the moderating influence of psychological safety climate and supervisor enforcement of safety practices

This brief conference paper explored the application of a novel coding framework for describing and categorising the differences between work-as-imagined (WAI) versus work-as-done (WAD). This study describes one element of a larger study exploring gaps between WAI and WAD in procedures. In this study, a worker wore a helmet-mounted camera during a task of loading… Continue reading Navigating operating procedures in everyday work in a petrochemical facility: A comparative analysis of WAI and WAD

This studied the relationships between psychosocial work factors and long sickness absence (>7 days per year). It drew on a large dataset from 34 European countries, incorporating >32k employees. 25 psychosocial work factors were incorporated into the analysis. The 25 factors were grouped under the following categories: There’s way too many findings to cover, so… Continue reading Psychosocial work factors and long sickness absence in Europe