Department

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

Organizations commonly use data to predict future safety injuries through trending data reported by workers in daily interactions with hazards and risks. Trends in these “leading indicators” can then lead to efficacious subsequent intervention. However, this practice is rendered inoperable when no hazards and risks are reported. Many organizations seek to remedy poor reporting practices internally. It is not uncommon for corporate safety compliance teams to identify recurrent incident themes and launch focus initiatives to elicit more awareness and reporting in these areas with the ultimate goal of mitigating additional injuries. However, it is unclear whether such initiatives lead to an increase in voluntary reporting in focused areas by way of cognitive or behavioral processes. This proposal investigates the impact of corporate focus on safety issues (e.g., ‘slips, trips, and falls’) on subsequent reporting in those areas (e.g., ‘the floor is slippery in my area…’). We hypothesize that corporate focus topics that allow for the most risk perception processing will result in more voluntary reports of near misses and minor injuries related to focus issues. If this relationship is confirmed, the company can use this information to build more effective corporate focus programs, and use subsequent data to make predictive or otherwise impactful safety decisions.

Date

10-16-2021

Subject

Industrial and organizational psychology

Document Type

posters

Language

English

Rights

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License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Increasing Incident Reporting Through Influencing Risk Perception

Organizations commonly use data to predict future safety injuries through trending data reported by workers in daily interactions with hazards and risks. Trends in these “leading indicators” can then lead to efficacious subsequent intervention. However, this practice is rendered inoperable when no hazards and risks are reported. Many organizations seek to remedy poor reporting practices internally. It is not uncommon for corporate safety compliance teams to identify recurrent incident themes and launch focus initiatives to elicit more awareness and reporting in these areas with the ultimate goal of mitigating additional injuries. However, it is unclear whether such initiatives lead to an increase in voluntary reporting in focused areas by way of cognitive or behavioral processes. This proposal investigates the impact of corporate focus on safety issues (e.g., ‘slips, trips, and falls’) on subsequent reporting in those areas (e.g., ‘the floor is slippery in my area…’). We hypothesize that corporate focus topics that allow for the most risk perception processing will result in more voluntary reports of near misses and minor injuries related to focus issues. If this relationship is confirmed, the company can use this information to build more effective corporate focus programs, and use subsequent data to make predictive or otherwise impactful safety decisions.