Safety in the Workplace: An Investigation into the Perceptions of a Behavioral Safety Modification Process in an Industrial/Manufacturing Setting

  • Joy Maria Jones

Student thesis: Doctoral ThesisDoctor of Philosophy

Abstract

This study examines safety perceptions of manufacturing employees involved in a safety behavioral modification process, and the perceptions of employees who are not involved in the same process, based on the idea that such a process helps to decrease injuries in the workplace. The Neal-Griffin Safety Climate/Safety Performance Instrument was used in a specific workplace to determine if race, gender, age, years of service, union membership, and education affect employees' perceptions of safety in an industrial/manufacturing setting. The results of this quantitative study found that, overall, the vast majority of the workers, regardless of demographic and group membership, provided relatively high survey ratings, which indicate that they had positive perceptions regarding their company's safety procedures and miscellaneous safety issues.
Date of AwardMay 22 2009
Original languageEnglish
SupervisorTerrell G Manyak (Supervisor), Robert Preziosi (Advisor) & Mark Dawkins (Advisor)

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