Attempts to increase vehicle safety-belt use among industry workers

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• Personal Author:
  Boyce TE ; Geller ES
• Description:
  A multiple intervention level hierarchy was evaluated with systematic implementation of successive interventions over a period of two years. Successive applications of written prompts, goal-setting, goal-setting plus feedback, and promise-card commitment interventions did not significantly impact the safety-belt use of 556 employees at a manufacturing plant in southwest Virginia. A modest increase in safety-belt use (from 59% to 68%) occurred only when a promise-card commitment strategy was combined with an incentive/reward strategy. These data support a multiple intervention level hierarchy which suggests that repeated attempts to change behavior with interventions at the same level of intrusiveness will not affect behavior uninfluenced by the first attempt at that level. A flow of behavior change model (Geller, 1999) is used to explain the impact of interventions on people at different stages of readiness for behavior change and to extend the multiple intervention level model. Suggestions are given for selecting the most appropriate behavior change strategy for large-scale applications. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Assigned Goal Author Keywords: Safety Behavior-patterns Goal Plus Feedback Injury-prevention Occupational-safety-programs Promise Card Promise Card Plus Incentive/Reward Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety Belt Use Safety Slogans And Celebration Work-practices Worker-motivation Workplace-monitoring Written Prompts

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• ISSN:
  0160-8061
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  27-44
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048954
• Citation:
  J Organ Behav Manage 1999 Oct; 19(3):27-44
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Performing Organization:
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19960201
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
• End Date:
  19980831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8fc4335f7c2a18ce51577625a04450a0266f7719a9df5be62314c990f4605413b0f2acc778ef18ca1dfc283441f80b20971e1880e4fd543060866ea920623018
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203566/cdc_203566_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 301.67 KB ]