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Impact of managers' personal determinants in notifying workplace hazards
Author(s) -
Rabin Stanley,
Feiner Mabel,
Shaham Judith,
Yekutieli Daniel,
Ribak Joseph
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199805)33:5<493::aid-ajim9>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - denial , medicine , notification system , incentive , affect (linguistics) , personally identifiable information , personal protective equipment , occupational safety and health , work (physics) , psychology , computer security , covid-19 , computer network , mechanical engineering , disease , communication , pathology , computer science , psychoanalysis , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering , economics , microeconomics
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 sufficiently 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‐efficacy and positive expectation of notification. Outcome denial and coping by distancing were negatively correlated with notifying about these risks. Am. J. Ind. Med. 33:493–500, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.