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Impact of managers' personal determinants in notifying workplace hazards

✍ Scribed by Stanley Rabin; Mabel Feiner; Judith Shaham; Daniel Yekutieli; Joseph Ribak


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
108 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0271-3586

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✦ Synopsis


Notification about work hazards is a legal requirement in advanced industrial countries, but workers have claimed, that in many cases, they do not receive enough information regarding risks, exposure, and medical problems. The recent professional literature on the subject has explored the ways in which notification is delivered without suffΔ±ciently considering the psychological incentives and barriers that may affect managers in transmitting risk information. The present study aimed at examining managers' personal determinants and notification of work hazards in a sample of 106 managers and 460 workers in 40 departments of three industrial plants in Israel. Results of our study showed that both managers and workers perceived the importance of the delivery of safety information as quite high (means of 3.43 and 3.7, respectively, out of 5), with managers reporting that they rely primarily on personal modes of communication. Immediate supervisors were regarded by both groups as the most important persons in notification. Managers having past experience in treating injured workers notified more, primarily using personal notification. The most important personal determinants that positively predicted managers' notification were their sense of self-effΔ±cacy and positive expectation of notification. Outcome denial and coping by distancing were negatively correlated with notifying about these risks.


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