Injury risk at work, safety motivation, and the role of masculinity: a moderated mediation

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• Personal Author:
  Bauerle TJ
• Description:
  For safety researchers, 2010 was a reminder of the work that has yet to be done. The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion of late April was the most devastating oil spill in recorded history, and the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster resulted in the highest death toll of US miners in 40 years from a single incident (Urbina, 2010). Relevant to the present research is that 100% of the victims who died in both disasters - 11 from the oil rig explosion, 29 from the underground mine explosion - were male workers (Simpson, 2010; Urbina, 2010). Given this observation, a pressing question emerges: Why do men as whole face unique, and perhaps even greater, safety and health risks across occupations? To a certain extent, the answer to this question calls for a bridge between safety research and the men and masculinity literature in which theories about masculinity can be used to help explain sex-based findings in occupational health and safety research. More specifically, I argue that a gendered psychological perspective is crucial to understanding the individual and occupational risk factors that contribute to men's risk for workplace injuries and accidents, whereby the occupational risk inherent in hazardous jobs, workers' perceived susceptibility to this risk, and the resulting safety-related attitudes and values in response to job risk are all at least partly influenced by masculine roles and norms at play in the workplace. To begin, I will provide a brief overview of safety motivation and the rationale underlying how both occupational and perceived risk predicts such motivation, as grounded within an existing framework of workplace safety literature. The primary contribution of the present research follows - an articulation of how a gendered explanation of the occupational injury and accident rate for men is necessary and theoretically relevant. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Behavior Hazardous Substances Men Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accidents Exposure-levels Hazards Health-hazards Humans Injuries Psychology Risk-factors Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  University of Connecticut
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Dissertation
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-56
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047431
• Citation:
  Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 2012 Jan; :1-56
• Email:
  tim.bauerle@uconn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  University of Connecticut Storrs, Storrs-Mansfield
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Injury risk at work, safety motivation, and the role of masculinity: a moderated mediation
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:833e9ef5b31bec5b8dbcb4df415d7b4d3fb5ee12554bb2082771444959bb10c1e2ae986ac58ce10f36d8a9cac6591632d7b2fef5ba76c83a30bc350b499f108a
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202492/cdc_202492_DS1.pdf
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