The Relationship between Workers’ Attitude towards Safety and Occupational Accidents Experience

Construction is one of the most hazardous workplaces in all around the world. Awareness about workers’ attitude towards safety could be helpful in anticipating the workers' behavior. The aims of this study were to determine both the tunneling workers' safety attitude and the relationship between workers' attitude towards safety and occupational accidents. In this cross-sectional study performed in eight tunneling projects in Iran in 2013-2014, overall 689 workers of the tunneling projects were selected. One-hundred fifty had experienced at least one occupational accident. Requisite variables of workers were collected via both standardized questionnaire and checklist. The participants were selected randomly with the stratified random sampling. The data were statistically analyzed using logistics regression, multivariate logistic regression and Spearman correlation coefficient where applicable (with a preset probability of (P 0.05). Accident experience, as well as education level, could affect positively on changing workers' safety attitude.

[1]  Mohammad Vahedian-Shahroodi,et al.  A review of studies in the field of knowledge and safe behaviors of workers in Iran , 2016 .

[2]  Dongping Fang,et al.  Safety Climate in Construction Industry: A Case Study in Hong Kong , 2006 .

[3]  Lennart Sjöberg,et al.  Risk perception and worries after the chernobyl accident , 1990 .

[4]  Nearkasen Chau,et al.  Relationships between Some Individual Characteristics and Occupational Accidents in the Construction Industry , 2002 .

[5]  D. R. Kouabénan.  Occupation, driving experience, and risk and accident perception , 2002 .

[6]  Oi-ling Siu,et al.  Age differences in safety attitudes and safety performance in Hong Kong construction workers. , 2003, Journal of safety research.

[7]  N. Chau,et al.  Relationships of Job and Some Individual Characteristics to Occupational Injuries in Employed People: A Community‐Based Study , 2003, Journal of occupational health.

[8]  Mehdi Gharari,et al.  The Influence of Safety Training on Safety Climate Factors in a Construction Site , 2014 .

[9]  Yanfang Ye,et al.  Unsupervised Feature Learning for Objects of Interest Detection in Cluttered Construction Roof Site Images , 2016 .

[10]  Iain Cameron,et al.  Fatal and major construction accidents : A comparison between Scotland and the rest of Great Britain , 2008 .

[11]  Alistair Cheyne,et al.  Assessing safety culture in offshore environments. , 2000 .

[12]  H. Samadi.  An Investigation of Relation between Organizational Justice and its Components with employs Job Stress Level in the Workplace Organization , 2015 .

[13]  F. Alhani,et al.  EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS IN SEMNAN (2002-2006) , 2009 .

[14]  Ian Donald,et al.  Measures of safety management performance and attitudes to safety at major hazard sites , 1996 .

[15]  Torbjørn Rundmo,et al.  Risk Attitudes and Behavior Among Norwegian Adolescents: The Effects of a Behavior Modification Prog , 2005 .

[16]  Marianne Törner,et al.  Safety in construction--a comprehensive description of the characteristics of high safety standards in construction work, from the combined perspective of supervisors and experienced workers. , 2009, Journal of safety research.

[17]  Torsten B Neilands,et al.  The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research , 2006, BMC Health Services Research.

[18]  N. Khanjani,et al.  Safety Attitudes among Nurses and Its Relation with Occupational Accidents: A Questionnaire Based Survey , 2015 .

[19]  An epidemiological study of accidents in a construction industry: a case-control study. , 2013 .

[20]  R Isla Díaz,et al.  Safety climate and attitude as evaluation measures of organizational safety. , 1997, Accident; analysis and prevention.

[21]  Mr Monazzam,et al.  The Relationship between the Worker's Safety Attitude and the Registered Accidents. , 2009, Journal of research in health sciences.

[22]  Zhipeng Zhou,et al.  Overview and analysis of safety management studies in the construction industry , 2015 .

[23]  Roger L. Brauer,et al.  Safety and health for engineers , 1990 .

[24]  Casper G Bendixsen,et al.  The Entanglements of Agrarian Ethics With Agrarian Risks and Leveraging Them in Agricultural Health Safety , 2017, Journal of agromedicine.

[25]  A. I. Goldberg,et al.  Well being, work environment and work accidents. , 2000, Social science & medicine.

[26]  D. H. Cornforth,et al.  Landslides in Practice: Investigation, Analysis, and Remedial/Preventative Options in Soils , 2005 .

[27]  Ching-Fu Chen,et al.  Personality, safety attitudes and risky driving behaviors--evidence from young Taiwanese motorcyclists. , 2009, Accident; analysis and prevention.

[28]  R. Riggio.  Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology , 2015 .

[29]  G. Shirali,et al.  Comparison between safety attitudes of ccu nurses in the educational and non educational hospitals of Ahvaz , 2016 .

[30]  Lars Jensen,et al.  Factors contributing to the differences in work related injury rates between Danish and Swedish construction workers , 2003 .