- Title
- Impact of health and safety representative training on concepts of accident causation and prevention
- Creator
- Culvenor, John; Cowley, Stephen; Harvey, Jack
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/67575
- Identifier
- vital:218
- Identifier
- ISSN:0815-6409
- Abstract
- In South Australia, health and safety representatives (HSRs) may undertake three levels of training, commencing at basic level, then progressing through advanced level to continuing level. A survey of 1,200 HSRs in SA was conducted to assess their beliefs about accident causation and accident prevention. In regard to accident causation, the survey found that HSRs showed a tendency to favour behavioural causation over workplace environment or systems-type causation. In regard to accident prevention, HSRs at all levels of training had a preference for low-order controls. However, there appears to be some shift in thinking by the time HSRs have completed all levels of training (that is, to the continuing training level), though the thinking of most remains distinctly safe-worker in orientation.; C1
- Publisher
- CCH Australia Ltd.
- Relation
- Journal of Occupational Health and Safety - Australia and New Zealand Vol. 19, no. 3 (2003), p. 279-292
- Rights
- Copyright CCH Australia Ltd.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Accident causation; Accident prevention; Accidents; Beliefs; Health and safety representatives; Training
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