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Investigating the impact of specific, global, and social comparison feedback on safety behaviors



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  • Personal Author:
    Williams JH
  • Description:
    Behavior-based safety feedback is increasingly used by organizations to reduce the frequency and severity of work-related injuries. Improvements in safety performance have been demonstrated in numerous settings following behavior-based (BB) safety feedback. The relative impact of global, specific, and social comparison BB feedback on safety behaviors was assessed in the current study. A 2 Feedback Level (Specific, Global) X 2 Feedback Type (Social Comparison, No Social Comparison) analysis of covariance was used to test the hypothesis that specific, social comparison feedback would lead to the greatest improvement in safety percent safe scores. Participants were 97 employees from Shifts 1 and 2 of a soft-drink bottling company in southeastern United States. Results from the study demonstrated a main effect for feedback type. Social comparison feedback led to significantly higher percent safe scores than no social comparison feedback conditions (M=.78 and .68, respectively). Follow-up chi-square analyses and practical considerations suggest global/SCF is optimal for improving safety performance. Limitations of the study and future implications for BB safety feedback research are provided. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Publisher:
    Virginia Polytechnic and State University
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Dissertation
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    1-142
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20048955
  • Citation:
    Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 1999 May; :1-142
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    1999
  • Performing Organization:
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology, Center for Applied Behavior Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    19960201
  • Source Full Name:
    Investigating the impact of specific, global, and social comparison feedback on safety behaviors
  • End Date:
    19980831
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:03a9455231d59ec82fbcc2f3d8cd95a5b7f239a7698f4fe22eef3c09c91fd968b54a19168dd9375716893850905df20cc306523b186e1597167f0bfa5e584955
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    Filetype[PDF - 796.28 KB ]
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