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Impact of managers' personal determinants in notifying workplace hazards
1Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute, Loewenstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel.
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
|April 29, 1998
Summary
Managers who feel confident and expect positive outcomes notify workers more about work hazards. This study highlights psychological factors influencing safety information delivery in industrial settings.
Area of Science:
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Industrial Psychology
- Risk Communication
Background:
- Legal mandates require work hazard notification, yet workers report insufficient information.
- Existing research on hazard notification overlooks managerial psychological factors influencing information transmission.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine managers' personal determinants affecting the notification of work hazards.
- To investigate the relationship between managerial psychological factors and safety information delivery.
Main Methods:
- A study involving 106 managers and 460 workers across 40 departments in three Israeli industrial plants.
- Data collection focused on perceptions of safety information importance and managerial notification practices.
Main Results:
- Both managers and workers highly valued safety information delivery (means 3.43 and 3.7/5).
- Managers primarily used personal communication methods, with immediate supervisors being key notification figures.
- Managerial self-efficacy and positive outcome expectations positively predicted notification; outcome denial and distancing negatively correlated.
Conclusions:
- Managerial self-efficacy and positive outcome expectations are crucial for effective work hazard notification.
- Addressing psychological barriers like outcome denial is essential to improve safety communication in industrial environments.
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